This article reviews key data and debates focused on relative sea-level changes since the
Last Interglacial (approximately the last 132,000 years) in the Mediterranean Basin, and …

Anthropogenic shell accumulations (shell middens), often of great size, occur in their tens of
thousands around the world's coastlines. They mostly date from the Mid-Holocene onwards …

Since the 19th century, the study of shell middens has played an important role in
archaeological research. Shell midden and broader coastal archaeology have transformed …

Anthropogenic climate change is increasingly threatening cultural heritage; cultural resource
managers, communities, and archaeologists are confronting this reality. Yet the …

Climate change threatens coastal archaeology through storm flooding (extreme sea-level:
ESL), long-term sea-level rise (SLR) and coastal erosion. Many regions, like the Middle East …

In this paper, we summarize how current and projected climate changes are expected to
impact material cultural heritage in Puerto Rico. As case study, we also conducted a spatial …

Island archaeology is a well-established field within the wider discipline, but African
contributions to it remain scarce. The Canary Islands are unusual in the broader African …

Across the world's seas and oceans, archaeological research focused on islands has
generally privileged those that are larger in size. Explanations for this phenomenon range …

CONCLUSION Although island archaeology has moved beyond the simplistic “islands as
laboratories” view, islands continue to be used as models for coupled human and natural …

The use of islands as 'model systems' has become particularly relevant for examining a host
of important issues in archaeology and other disciplines. As papers in this special issue of …