8000 years of coastal changes on a western Mediterranean Island: A multi proxy approach from the Posada plain of Sardinia
| Autor: | Melis, RT, Di Rita, F, French, C, Marriner, N, Montis, F, Serreli, G, Sulas, F, Vacchi, M |
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| Přispěvatelé: | French, Charles Andrew [0000-0001-7967-3248], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
| Popis: | A multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental investigation was conducted to reconstruct the Holocene history of coastal landscape change in the lower Posada coastal plain of eastern Sardinia. In this paper, millennial-scale human-sea level-environment interactions are investigated near Posada. Biostratigraphic and palynological approaches were used to interpret the chromo-stratigraphy exhibited by a series of new clothes taken from the coastal plain. This new study elucidates the main palaeoecologiocal changes, phases of shoreline migration and relative sea-level change during the lat 8000 years. The results indicate the major role of sea-level stabilisation and high sediment supply in driving major landscape changes, especially during the Neolithic period (6-4th millennia BC), and the long-term settlement history of this coastal area. It is concluded that human occupation of the coastal plain, from prehistoric to historical times, was most likely constrained by the rapid evolution if this coastal landscape. LR/7 2010 Regione Sardegna |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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