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A Review of “Submerged Prehistory”

The complex interactions between coastal evolution, sea-level changes, ecological shifts, regional tectonics, and population patterns during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene resulted in a highly variable pattern of prehistoric landscapes and settlements. Much of our knowledge of human settlement during these periods comes from sites located at a distance from coastal margins. It was during these periods, however, that vast tracts of today’s sublittoral zones were dry, in many cases settled, and the dispersal of humans around the world took place. Until relatively recently our knowledge of prehistoric inundated coastal sites has been relatively sparse. Fortunately, prehistoric submerged landscapes have become the subject of multidisciplinary studies over the past two decades. Submerged Prehistory, a product of the papers presented at a session of the European Association of Archaeologists’ annual meeting held in Riva del Garda, Italy, in 2009, is a timely compendium of 25 papers and case studies (all in English) highlighting the current state of knowledge onthearchaeologyofprehistoric submerged landscapes.