We provide a critical review of the evidence for the long-term use of marine resources and
coastal environments in human evolution and later development. We emphasise the …

A number of charred surface residues, adhering to ceramic containers, were obtained from
various coastal and inland sites in north‐west Europe dating from the sixth to the fourth …

The change in subsistence at the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition in Denmark is often
characterized as rapid, with a dramatic shift from a marine diet in the Mesolithic to a …

The global warming at the end of the last glacial period led to a sea level rise, which induced
substantial long-term landscape changes in the southwestern Baltic Sea. During the …

Radiocarbon dates of food residue on pottery from northern European inland areas seem to
be influenced significantly by the freshwater reservoir effect (“hardwater” effect) stemming …

Paleoenvironmental studies of late Pleistocene climate change and postglacial sea-level
rise have coincided with and inspired archaeological fieldwork in submarine environments …

THE BORDER BETWEEN THE Mesolithic and the Neolithic in Central Europe is traditionally
defined on the basis of subsistence strategy. It is the development from hunter-gatherer …

This fascinating volume on submerged prehistoric landscapes of the North Sea brings
together for the first time comparative archaeological evidence from Norway, Denmark …

Carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis was undertaken on collagen extracted from eel bone
from six Mesolithic and Neolithic sites in northern Europe. The results were compared with …

How did small-scale societies in the past experience and respond to sea-level rise? What
happened when their dwellings, hunting grounds and ancestral lands were lost under an …