num_pages: 999
description: This book brings together eastern and western scholarship on a controversial a catastrophic inundation of the Pontic basin which might have inspired the biblical story of Noah’s flood. In 35 papers, many previously unavailable in English, experts in oceanography, marine geology, paleoclimate, paleoenvironment, archaeology, and linguistic spread offer data and arguments for or against the flood hypothesis. Appendices include 600 radiocarbon dates from the region, obtained by USSR and western labs.
language: English
title: The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate and Human Settlement
titlecomplete: The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate and Human Settlement
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Springer