European Marine Board, Position Paper 21, Continental Shelf Prehistoric Research: research strategy (original) (raw)

The European continental shelf which was exposed subaerially for most of the last one million years was occupied by a fauna and flora which included, at different dates, hominins and anatomically modern humans. Over 2500 submerged prehistoric sites are known. This report considers the value that archaeological study of these sites and the associated landscape would provide, and shows the positive interaction between study of climate change, glacial research, palaeo-oceanography, and archaeology.