Foreword (T.W. Jacobsen)
Preface
A Note of Terminology
Part I The Onshore Investigations
Chapter One/Geomorphology of Franchthi Paralia/The Limestone Outcrop/The Debris Slopes/Deposits of the Modern Debris Slopes/The Formation of the Paralia Embayment
Chapter Two/Soil Profiles through Selected Sedimentary Sequences/Soil Profiles
Chapter Three/Classification of the Excavated Sediments/Class A: Stony Red Colluvium/Class B: Lower Gravelly Loam/Class C: Stone-free Silt Loam/Class D: Red-hued Sediments with Serpentinites (Upper Reds)/Class E: Dark Gray Stony Clay Loams/Class F: Upper Stony Loam and Class G: Talus Accumulation/Class H: Leight Gray Silt Loam/Class J: Fills of Cut Features and Disturbances/Class K: Topsoil
Chapter Four/Processes of Deposition of Selected Sediment Clases/Free Talus Movement/Impeded Talus Movement/Addition of Cultural Debris/Post-depositional Alteration of Archaeological Sediments
Chapter Five/The Stratigraphic Succession/Summary of Stratigraphic Sequence
Chapter Six/Discussion and Conclusions/General Discussion of the Paralia Sediments/The Chronological Development of Sedimentary Deposits/Maximum Extent of the Paralia Settlement
Part II The Offshore Investigations
Chapter Seven/Analysis of Submarine Sediments Off Franchthi Cave (John A Gifford)/Introduction/Methodology/Laboratory Analyses (with reports by J.M. Hansen and D.S. Reese)/General Discussion and Conclusions
Chapter Eight/Holocene Environemtn of the Southern Argolid: A Pollen Core from Kiladha Bay (Sytze Bottema)/Introduction/Core Location, Geography, Climate, and Vegetation/Melacology/Dating/Methods/Discussion of the Kiladha Pollen Diagram/Comparison of the Kiladha Diagram with Other Palaeobotanical Information from Greece/Environmental Changes and Human Habitation in the Southern Argolid at the End of the Fourth Millennium B.P.
Appendixes The Onshore Investigations: Supporting Data
Appendix A The Stratigraphic Contexts of the Paralia Walls
Appendix B Catalogue of Strata
Appendix C Field and Laboratory Mehtods/Field Methods/Laboratory Methods
Appendix D Clay Mineralogy
Appendix E Miscellaneous Samples
Appendix F Tables of Laboratory Data
Notes
References
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