Yanko-Hombach, Valentyna V.Yanina, TamaraЯнко-Хомбах, Валентина ВенедиктівнаЯнко-Хомбах, Валентина Венедиктовна2022-06-152022-06-152019Episodeshttps://dspace.onu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/33105The Caspian-Black Sea-Mediterranean Corridor ["CORRIDOR"] encompasses the Eurasian intercontinental basins of the Caspian, Black, Marmara, Aegean, and Eastern Mediterranean (Levantine) seas with their connecting straits and coasts. Periodic connection/isolation of the basins during the Quaternary predetermined their specific environmental conditions and particular hydrologic regimes, and thus, the area, and especially the Ponto-Caspian, represents a “natural laboratory” to study the responses of semi-isolated and isolated basins to climate changes. Being characterized by rich sedimentary, geomorphological, archaeological, paleoanthropological, and historical records, the “CORRIDOR” provides a superb opportunity to assess the influence of climate, sea-level change, and coastline migration on human development (e.g., Yanko, 1990; Anthony, 2007; Stanko, 2007; Smyntyna, 2007; Yanko-Hombach, 2007; Yanko-Hombach et al., 2011; Yanina, 2012; Yanko-Hombach et al., 2014; Yanko-Hombach and Kislov, 2018; Yanina et al., 2017) and foraminifera (Yanko, 1990; Yanko-Hombach, 2007). This, in turn, has enabled the correlation of major events in this region with those in the Mediterranean Sea and the World Ocean. It has also allowed a reconstruction of the time and direction of Caspian and Mediterranean intrusions into the Black Sea via the connecting straits (Yanko and Motnenko, 2012).enCaspian-Black Sea-Mediterranean Corridorshuman responsesenvironmental changeArticlehttps://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2019/019028