Bulgaria: Sea-Level Change and Submerged Settlements on the Black Sea

Preslav  Peev; Helen  Farr; Vladimir  Slavchev; Michael J.  Grant; Jon  Adams; Geoff Bailey

Bulgaria: Sea-Level Change and Submerged Settlements on the Black Sea

Preslav Peev, Helen Farr, Vladimir Slavchev, Michael J. Grant, Jon Adams, Geoff Bailey

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The Black Sea is recognised as having great potential for the preservation of submerged prehistoric sites because of the large area of land exposed on the continental shelf at lowest sea levels, especially along its western and north-western coastlines. However, very few have been discovered to date, and those that are known are located in Bulgaria. Because of the complexities associated with the periodic isolation of the Black Sea from the Mediterranean and its reconnection, offshore research has tended to focus on geological and geophysical investigation of inundation history, with unresolved and strongly held disagreements about the timing and rapidity of sea level rise at the end of the Last Glacial and its potential human impact. In Bulgaria, a rich concentration of underwater prehistoric sites has been discovered, thanks to dredging activities earlier in the twentieth century and a long tradition of underwater archaeological investigations going back to the 1970s. These demonstrate the presence of substantial in situ village settlements of Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age date in shallow water (<10 m), with excellent preservation of large ceramic assemblages, wooden structures and faunal and palynological data on palaeodiet and palaeoeconomy. More recently, large-scale marine-geological and archaeological projects have begun, aimed at integrating shallow-water inshore investigations with offshore survey in deeper water.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes
Editors	Geoffrey Bailey, Nena Galanidou, Hans Peeters, Hauke Jöns, Moritz Mennenga
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Chapter	20
Pages	393-412
Number of pages	20
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-37367-2
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-37366-5
Publication status	Published - 2020

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Name	Coastal Research Library
Volume	35
ISSN (Print)	2211-0577
ISSN (Electronic)	2211-0585

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Keywords

Flood hypothesis
Underwater settlements
Sea-level change
Early Bronze Age
Eneolithic

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Peev, P., Farr, H., Slavchev, V., Grant, M. J., Adams, J., & Bailey, G. (2020). Bulgaria: Sea-Level Change and Submerged Settlements on the Black Sea. In G. Bailey, N. Galanidou, H. Peeters, H. Jöns, & M. Mennenga (Eds.), The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes (1 ed., pp. 393-412). (Coastal Research Library; Vol. 35). Springer International Publishing. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-37367-2_20

Peev, Preslav ; Farr, Helen ; Slavchev, Vladimir et al. / Bulgaria : Sea-Level Change and Submerged Settlements on the Black Sea. The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes. editor / Geoffrey Bailey ; Nena Galanidou ; Hans Peeters ; Hauke Jöns ; Moritz Mennenga. 1. ed. Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2020. pp. 393-412 (Coastal Research Library).

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Peev, P, Farr, H, Slavchev, V, Grant, MJ, Adams, J & Bailey, G 2020, Bulgaria: Sea-Level Change and Submerged Settlements on the Black Sea. in G Bailey, N Galanidou, H Peeters, H Jöns & M Mennenga (eds), The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes. 1 edn, Coastal Research Library, vol. 35, Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 393-412. <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-37367-2_20>

Bulgaria: Sea-Level Change and Submerged Settlements on the Black Sea. / Peev, Preslav ; Farr, Helen ; Slavchev, Vladimir et al.
The Archaeology of Europe’s Drowned Landscapes. ed. / Geoffrey Bailey; Nena Galanidou; Hans Peeters; Hauke Jöns; Moritz Mennenga. 1. ed. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2020. p. 393-412 (Coastal Research Library; Vol. 35).

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Bulgaria: Sea-Level Change and Submerged Settlements on the Black Sea

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