The Drowning of a Cornish Prehistoric Landscape: Tradition, deposition, and social responses to sea level rise

REVIEW BY JACQUELINE A NOWAKOWSKI Mount’s Bay, west Cornwall, hosts a major drowned landscape. This attractive and well-produced monograph successfully integrates results of the excavation of a Bronze Age enclosure barrow, east of Penzance in the littoral zone, with excellent geoarchaeological data sampled from nearby Marazion Marsh. A longue durée approach is taken to examine how prehistoric communities responded to major land loss: the drowning of more than 20km2 of land included two freshwater rivers that disappeared over thousands of years. Meditations on social responses to this tale of land-loss and dramatic environmental change run as a narrative thread throughout, and various