Upper Holocene sea-level changes: Paleogeographic evolution and its impact on coastal archaeological sites and monuments

1994 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. D. Mourtzas ◽  
P. G. Marinos
1988 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Galili ◽  
M. Weinstein-Evron ◽  
A. Ronen

A series of submerged archaeological sites found on the continental shelf between Haifa and Atlit indicate a continuous marine transgression between 8000 and 1500 yr B.P. The sites are embedded in the upper part of a marshy clay that fills the trough between the coastal aeolianite (kurkar) ridge and a ridge now submerged some 1000 to 1500 m to the west. The submerged prehistoric sites belong to two main chronological units: Prepottery Neolithic B (8000 yr B.P.) and late Neolithic (ca. 6500 yr B.P.); these were found at depths of 12 to 8 m and 5 to 0 m, respectively. Bronze Age and Byzantine anchors were found at depths of 5 to 3 m and 4 to 1.8 m, respectively. As the archaeological materials are firmly dated, we can reconstruct the rate of marine transgression from 8000 yr B.P. to the present and the eastward movement of settlements through time as related to the transgression.


2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 141-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenitiro Suguio ◽  
Alcina Magnуlia Franco Barreto ◽  
Paulo Eduardo de Oliveira ◽  
Francisco Hilário Rego Bezerra ◽  
Maria Cristina Santiago Hussein Vilela

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 453 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.D Mourtzas

Sea level changes during the Upper Holocene submerged the coasts of Kea in three different phases about 5.50m, 3.90m and 1.50m respectively below the contemporary sea level thus causing sea transgression along the shores of Kea, which varied from 8m to 78m depending on the coastal morphology. These changes caused the alteration of the earlier morphology at coastal archaeological sites of the Island, as the prehistoric settlement of Ayia Irini and Classical period port of Karthaia, as well as, submerged under the sea areas of coastal human activity during antiquity, as the ancient schist quarry at Spathi bay. The study of historical, geomorphological and sedimentological data indicative of previous sea levels allow the paleogeographical reconstruction of the coasts during the period of human activities in these areas.


Author(s):  
Daniel J. King ◽  
Rewi M. Newnham ◽  
W. Roland Gehrels ◽  
Kate J. Clark

2007 ◽  
Vol 242 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 27-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arto Miettinen ◽  
Henrik Jansson ◽  
Teija Alenius ◽  
Georg Haggrén

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (17-18) ◽  
pp. 1725-1736 ◽  
Author(s):  
B.P. Horton ◽  
W.R. Peltier ◽  
S.J. Culver ◽  
R. Drummond ◽  
S.E. Engelhart ◽  
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