Yanko-Hombach, V., Gilbert, A., Panin, N., and Dolukhanov, P., eds. The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate, and Human Settlement, NATO Science Series IV - Earth and Environmental Sciences, Springer, in press (est. 2005).
Three conferences were held in fall of 2003 on the subject of the proposed Mediterranean flooding of the Black Sea. Close to 50 contributors participated in at least one conference (in Bucharest, New York, and Seattle), and afterwards, those conference papers that were submitted by their presenters, as well as several volunteered entries from researchers who did not attend a conference, were collected for publication. The final volume will contain about 35 papers covering matters of oceanography and marine geology in the Black Sea, and the tectonics, climate, archaeology, and linguistic history of the Pontic region. Contributors include the supporters of the early Holocene flood hypothesis and others who have found no evidence of such a flood. Russian evidence for an earlier inundation scenario involving Caspian overflow is presented as well. The book's special features include (1) its interdisciplinary approach involving earth science, deep sea exploration, paleoclimatology, archaeology, and anthropology, and (2) its inclusion of substantial Russian evidence, much of which has not appeared before outside of Russian-language publications.
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