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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 Plates
