Submerged Landscapes of the European Continental Shelf, Volume I

This volume will address the details of why so many prehistoric sites and ancient landscape features do survive, and the circumstances of their survival. We will show how and why stratified deposits can and often do survive the initial high-energy stage of marine transgression and transition through the surf zone; the distinction between sites that may survive intact, and those which may be scattered or disturbed, but retain evidence of their original structure; and the circumstances and coastal structures and dynamics which are most likely to protect a prehistoric deposit completely so that it can be studied as a primary deposit. We will then examine how modern technology can help to reconstruct the complete submerged terrestrial landscape, thus integrating individual locations both with the adjacent landscapes of the continental shelf, and with the modern dry land area.