Out Of Europe Or Out Of Africa; Different Landscapes, Different Times But The Same Opportunities.

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Human colonisation and dispersal out of Africa and to the far reaches of Europe followed major inter-glacial events as the climate warmed, but before the ice thawed and sea level rose. The relationship of the archaeology with the landscape that was left behind provides a cultural and datable resource that can be interrogated to provide a narrative around early societies and the landscape within which people lived. The rediscovery of such archaeological evidence in drowned landscapes can provide scientific markers that tell us about changes today and the future trajectory against which modern societies will have to adapt. This paper will look at the geological and geomorphological characteristics of submerged landscapes from the Red Sea and the English Channel. The methodologies required to investigate the different landscapes for different types of evidence at different scales will be outlined, as will the informed assumptions made when seeking archaeological material.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2024   •
• Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes

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