The study of palaeotsunamis preserved in the sedimentary record has developed over the
past three decades to a point where the criteria used to identify these events range from well …

The origin of tsunamis in the Mediterranean region and its connected seas, including the
Marmara Sea, the Black Sea and the SW Iberian Margin in the NE Atlantic Ocean, is …

The Levant-modern Lebanon, southern Syria, Jordan, Israel and Palestine-is one of the
most intensively excavated regions of the world. This richly documented and illustrated …

The historical chronologies for dynastic Egypt are based on reign lengths inferred from
written and archaeological evidence. These floating chronologies are linked to the absolute …

The importance of chronology is reasserted as a means to achieving history and a sense of
temporality. A range of current methods for estimating the dates and durations of …

The mid-second millennium BCE eruption of Thera (Santorini) offers a critically important
marker horizon to synchronize archaeological chronologies of the Aegean, Egypt, and the …

Worst-case or high-end subduction-related earthquakes and tsunamis of 2004 and 2011 are
painfully fresh in our memories. High-end subduction-related volcanic eruptions have not …

Archaeology: An Introduction looks behind the popular aspects of archaeology such as the
discovery and excavation of sites, the study of human remains and animal bones …

The propagation of “alternative” archaeologies is a simultaneously fascinating and
disturbing phenomenon, disseminated and reinforced by innumerable television shows …

What does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Did volcanic eruptions
extinguish the dinosaurs, or help humans to evolve, only to decimate their populations with a …