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Natural SciencesArchaeologyEarth SciencesGeoarchaeologyPaleoenvironmental ReconstructionUnderwater ArchaeologyCoastal GeoarchaeologyCoastal GeomorphologyGeoarchaeological SurveyPaleogeographic ReconstructionSea-level HistorySea-level ReconstructionBeach Ridge SequencesCatastrophic EventsGeoarchaeological AnalysisPaleoshoreline MappingPaleoshoreline ReconstructionPostglacial Sea-level ChangeRelative Sea-level ChangeSea-level History Reconstruction
Preface. Introduction. PART I: STABLE LAND. ISLANDS. Introduction. Lucayan Settlement Patterns and Recent Coastal Changes in the Bahamas. Paleoshorelines and the Prehistory of Barbuda, West Indies. MAINLAND. Introduction. A Geoarchaeological Methodology for Studying Prograding Coastal Sequences: Beach Ridge Geomorphology in Kotzebue Sound, Alaska. Paleoshorelines and the Sambaquis of Brazil. UNDERWATER. Introduction. Recent Archaeogeophysical Studies of Paleoshorelines of the Gulf of Mexico. Inundated Prehistoric Sites in Apalachee Bay, Florida and the Search for the Clovis Shoreline. PART II: UNSTABLE LAND. ISLANDS. Introduction. Modeling Paleoshorelines in Geologically Active Regions: Applications to the Shumagin Islands, Southwest Alaska. Paleoshorelines and Prehistoric Settlement on Simeonof and Chernabura Islands, Outer Shumagin Islands, Alaska. MAINLAND. Introduction. Postglacial Relative Sea Level History of the Labrador Coast and the Interpretation of the Archaeological Record. Space Shuttle Imagery of Recent Catastrophic Change Along the Arid Andean Coast. CONCLUSION. GLOSSARY. BIBLIOGRAPHY. INDEX.