Trekking the Shore Changing Coastlines and the Antiquity of Coastal Settlement /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bicho, Nuno F. (Editor), Haws, Jonathan A. (Editor), Davis, Loren G. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.

Human settlement has often centered around coastal areas and waterways. Until recently, however, archaeologists believed that marine economies did not develop until the end of the Pleistocene, when the archaeological record begins to have evidence of marine life as part of the human diet. This has l...