Preface ...................................................................... IX Acknowledgements ............................................................. XI Part 1: Overview The condition of Holocene alluvial archaeology in the UK: progress, constraints and opportunities ................................................. 3 M.G.Macklin, A.J.Howard and D.G.Passmore Time, space and causality in floodplain palaeoecology ........................ 15 A.G.Brown Part 2: Landscape reconstruction: UK perspectives Hemington Quarry, Castle Donington, Leicestershire, UK: a decade beneath the alluvium in the confluence zone .......................................... 27 L.P.Cooper Palaeoenvironmental investigations on the middle Thames at Dorney, UK ........ 43 A.G.Parker and M.A.Robinson From prediction to prospection: finding prehistory on London's river ......... 61 F.M.Haughey Geoarchaeological evidence for Holocene landscape evolution in the Hull Valley, eastern England, UK .................................................. 69 M.C.Lillie, B.R.Gearey and H.P.Chapman Holocene landscape change in the lower Great Ouse valley, Cambridgeshire, England ...................................................................... 81 C.A.I.French and J.Heathcote The environmental archaeology of the Late Bronze Age occupation platform at Shinewater, near Eastbourne, UK ........................................... 93 S.Jennings, C.Greatorex, C.Smyth and G.Spurr Why build in a Scottish firth? An assessment of the topographic and environmental conditions that were prevalent for the building of a marine crannog in north-east Scotland .............................................. 111 A.Hale Part 3: Floodplain management of archaeology: UK perspectives Issues and agenda in archaeological research and management: a case study from the Trent Valley, UK ................................................... 123 M.Bishop The London Thames: a decade of research into the river and its floodplain ... 133 J.Sidell Part 4: Landscape reconstruction: Northern European perspectives Landscape evolution and site formation of two mesolithic sites in the lower Rhine-Meuse delta (Hardinxveld, The Netherlands) .................. 147 J.Mol Fluvial metamorphosis of the River Loire during the Holocene: and the role of natural and anthropogenic factors: a case study from the area of Tours, France ...................................................................... 163 J.Burnouf, N.Carcaud, M.Garcin, D.Giot, H.Galinie, X.Rodier, O.Marlet, Ch.Blin and Ch.Taberly The geomorphological setting and reconstruction of a late Roman Bridge at Cuijk, The Netherlands ................................................... 173 R.A.C.Kroes, H.S.M. van der Beek, R.Isarin and B.Goudswaard Part 5: Landscape reconstruction: Southern European perspectives Quaternary alluviation and archaeology in the Evrotas Valley, southern Greece ...................................................................... 187 K.N.Wilkinson and R.J.J.Pope Palaeoenvironment and morphodynamics in the mid-Medjerda floodplain (northern Tunisia) between 12000 and 2000 BP: geoarchaeological and geomorphological findings ................................................... 203 C.Zielhofer and D.Faust The geoarchaeology of Mesolithic settlement and subsistence in the Muge valley Lower Tagus Basin, Portugal .......................................... 217 T. van der Schriek, D.G.Passmore, F.Franco Mugica, A.C.Stevenson, I.Boomer and J.Rolao Holocene landscape dynamics in a Sicilian upland river valley ............... 229 G.Ayala and C.French Part 6: Landscape reconstruction: Eastern European perspectives Preservation and prospection of alluvial archaeological resources in the southern Balkans: a case-study from the Teleorman river valley, southern Romania ..................................................................... 239 A.J.Howard, M.G.Macklin, D.W.Bailey, R.Andreescu and S.Mills Sediment transfer and storage linked to Neolithic and Early Medieval soil erosion in the Upper Odra Basin, southern Poland ............................ 251 K.Klimek Part 7: Methodological perspectives GIS-based modelling of sub-surface deposits for archaeological prospection in alluvial landscapes ...................................................... 263 K.Challis and A.J.Howard Visualising the sub-surface: problems and procedures for areas of deeply stratified sediments ........................................................ 277 M.R.Bates The interpretation of Mollusca from Holocene overbank alluvium: progress and future directions ....................................................... 291 P.Davies Part 8: Alluvial archaeology in the USA: a perspective Dating late Quaternary alluvial stratigraphic sequences ..................... 305 M.R.Waters Author index ................................................................ 313