Table of Contents

General.- Oxic, suboxic, and anoxic conditions in the Black Sea.- Molluscan paleoecology in the reconstruction of coastal changes.- Climate modeling results for the Circum-Pontic Region from the late Pleistocene to the mid-Holocene.- Principal Flood Scenarios.- Status of the Black Sea flood hypothesis.- The Marmara Sea Gateway since ~16 ky BP: non-catastrophic causes of paleoceanographic events in the Black Sea at 8.4 and 7.15 ky BP.- The late glacial great flood in the Ponto-Caspian basin.- Controversy over Noah's Flood in the Black Sea: geological and foraminiferal evidence from the shelf.- Research in the Northern Sector.- On the post-glacial changes in the level of the Black Sea.- The post-glacial transgression of the Black Sea.- Climate dynamics, sea-level change, and shoreline migration in the Ukrainian sector of the Circum-Pontic Region.- The Middle Paleolithic and early Upper Paleolithic in the northern Black Sea region.- Environment, sea-level changes, and human migrations in the northern Pontic area during late Pleistocene and Holocene times.- Holocene Mediterranization of the southern Crimean vegetation: paleoecological records, regional climate change, and possible non-climatic influences.- Pontic-Caspian Mesolithic and Early Neolithic societies at the time of the Black Sea flood: a small audience and small effects.- Fluctuations in the level of the Black Sea and Mesolithic settlement of the northern Pontic area.- Research in the Western Sector.- The northwestern Black Sea: climatic and sea-level changes in the Late Quaternary.- Sea-level fluctuations and coastline migration in the northwestern Black Sea area over the last 18 ky based on high-resolution lithological-genetic analysis of sediment architecture.- Water-level fluctuations in the Black Seasince the Last Glacial Maximum.- Archaeological and paleontological evidence of climate dynamics, sea-level change, and coastline migration in the Bulgarian sector of the Circum-Pontic Region.- Dendrochronology of submerged Bulgarian sites.- The Neolithization of the north Pontic area and the Balkans in the context of the Black Sea floods.- Holocene changes in the level of the Black Sea: Consequences at a human scale.- Research in the Southern Sector.- Morphotectonic development of the southern Black Sea region and the Bosphorus channel.- Sea-level changes modified the Quaternary coastlines in the Marmara region, northwestern Turkey: What about tectonic movements?.- Sea-level changes during the late Pleistocene-Holocene on the southern shelves of the Black Sea.- The frozen Bosphorus and its paleoclimatic implications based on a summary of the historical data.- Coastal changes of the Black Sea and Sea of Marmara in archaeological perspective.- Submerged paleoshorelines in the southern and western Black Sea–Implications for inundated prehistoric archaeological sites.- New evidence for the emergence of a maritime Black Sea economy.- Research in the Eastern Sector.- Holocene sea-level changes of the Black Sea.- Sea-level changes and coastline migrations in the Russian sector of the Black Sea: Application to the Noah's Flood Hypothesis.- Language dispersal from the Black Sea region.- Research in the Mediterranean.- Timing of the last Mediterranean Sea Black Sea connection from isostatic models and regional sea-level data.- Climatic changes in the Eastern Mediterranean from the Last Glacial Maximum to the late Holocene.- Climate, sea level, and culture in the Eastern Mediterranean 20 ky to the present.