Late Quaternary sea-level changes and archaeology
- 1 June 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Vol. 63 (241) , 733-745
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00076869
Abstract
The oxygen-isotope curve, derived from the record of organisms stratified in the deep ocean ooze, has replaced the old pattern of four glaciations with a more complex record of cool and warm events. Since people live by their local sea-level, rather than an abstract world average, that global pattern is itself mediated by other geological forces, on several scales, before it directs the possibilities of human settlement. Here the effect of those forces is unravelled and illustrated.Keywords
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