Developing a robust tephrochronological framework for Late Quaternary marine records in the Southern Adriatic Sea: new data from core station SA03-11

Matthews, Ian; Trincardi, Fabio; Lowe, John J.; Bourne, A. J.; MacLeod, Alison; Abbott, Peter M; Andersen, Nils; Asioli, Alessandra; Blockley, Simon; Lane, Christine S.; Oh, Yongje; Satow, Christopher; Staff, Richard A.; Wulf, Sabine

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.10.009

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“…This paper shows multi beam bathymetry and CHIRP seismic profile data collected from 2005 to Data were collected with three different multibeam echo-sounders with variable frequency, beam number and beam angles, according to water depth range and instruments availability (Trincardi et al, 2014). Table 1 summarizes the technical characteristics of the multibeam echosounders used and the water depth ranges surveyed.…”

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The reshaping of the South West Adriatic Margin by cascading of dense shelf waters

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“…Albert et al . () correlated E‐11 to chemically similar tephra in marine cores from the Ionian Sea as unit T1535 (Matthews et al ., ) and I‐2 (Insinga et al ., ). Although only major element chemistry is available for tephra from these marine core units, they are probably associated with the FPdelP volcanoes on Lipari Island (Albert et al ., ).…”

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Discovery of cryptotephra at Middle–Upper Paleolithic sites Arma Veirana and Riparo Bombrini, Italy: a new link for broader geographic correlations

Hirniak

Smith

Johnsen

et al. 2019

J Quaternary Science

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Chemical characterization of cryptotephra is critical for temporally linking archaeological sites. Here, we describe cryptotephra investigations of two Middle-Upper Paleolithic sites from north-west Italy, Arma Veirana and Riparo Bombrini. Cryptotephra are present as small (<100 µm) rhyolitic glass shards at both sites, with geochemical signatures rare for volcanoes in the Mediterranean region. Two chemically distinct shard populations are present at Arma Veirana (P1 and P2). P1 is a high silica rhyolite (>75 wt.%) with low FeO (<1 wt.%) and a K 2 O/ Na 2 O > 1 and P2 is also a high silica rhyolite (>75 wt.%) but with higher FeO (2.33-2.65 wt.%). Shards at Riparo Bombrini (P3) are of the same composition as P1 shards at Arma Veirana, providing a distinct link between deposits at both sites. Geochemical characteristics suggest three possible sources for P1 and P3: eruptions from Lipari Island (56-37.7 ka) in Italy, the Acigöl volcanic field (200-20 ka) in Turkey and the Miocene Kirka-Phrigian caldera (18 Ma) in Turkey. Eruptions from Lipari Island are the most likely source for P1,3 cryptotephra. This study highlights how cryptotephra can benefit archaeology, by providing a direct link between Arma Veirana and Riparo Bombrini as well as other deposits throughout the Mediterranean.

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“…The contribution in this volume by Matthews et al (2015), for example, reveals that 28 discrete tephra layers are preserved within Adriatic core SA03-11, which spans the last c. 39 ka. Of these, 18 are non-visible cryptotephra layers, the majority of which can be matched to proximal deposits and/or tephras in the Monticchio archive.…”

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“…Grant et al (2012) also used two distinctive tephra isochrons, the Minoan tephra and the Campanian Ignimbrite, to test the reliability of an age model developed for core station LC21 in the eastern Mediterranean, and its alignment with the Soreq Cave speleothem record in Israel. Matthews et al (2015) used optimised age estimates for several tephra isochrons to generate an age model for the SA03-11 sequence in the Adriatic, thus avoiding any reliance on marinebased radiocarbon dates, which may be distorted by marine reservoir effects. The degree to which these experiments have generated better-constrained age models for the sequences concerned awaits the scrutiny of future research.…”

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The RESET project: constructing a European tephra lattice for refined synchronisation of environmental and archaeological events during the last c. 100 ka

Lowe

Ramsey

Housley

et al. 2015

Quaternary Science Reviews

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a b s t r a c tThis paper introduces the aims and scope of the RESET project (RESponse of humans to abrupt Environmental Transitions), a programme of research funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (UK) between 2008 and 2013; it also provides the context and rationale for papers included in a special volume of Quaternary Science Reviews that report some of the project's findings. RESET examined the chronological and correlation methods employed to establish causal links between the timing of abrupt environmental transitions (AETs) on the one hand, and of human dispersal and development on the other, with a focus on the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic periods. The period of interest is the Last Glacial cycle and the early Holocene (c. 100e8 ka), during which time a number of pronounced AETs occurred. A long-running topic of debate is the degree to which human history in Europe and the Mediterranean region during the Palaeolithic was shaped by these AETs, but this has proved difficult to assess because of poor dating control. In an attempt to move the science forward, RESET examined the potential that tephra isochrons, and in particular non-visible ash layers (cryptotephras), might offer for synchronising palaeo-records with a greater degree of finesse. New tephrostratigraphical data generated by the project augment previously-established tephra frameworks for the region, and underpin a more evolved tephra 'lattice' that links palaeo-records between Greenland, the European mainland, sub-marine sequences in the Mediterranean and North Africa. The paper also outlines the significance of other contributions to this special volume: collectively, these illustrate how the lattice was constructed, how it links with cognate tephra research in Europe and elsewhere, and how the evidence of tephra isochrons is beginning to challenge long-held views about the impacts of environmental change on humans during the Palaeolithic.

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Developing a robust tephrochronological framework for Late Quaternary marine records in the Southern Adriatic Sea: new data from core station SA03-11

Cited by 41 publications

References 68 publications

The reshaping of the South West Adriatic Margin by cascading of dense shelf waters

The reshaping of the South West Adriatic Margin by cascading of dense shelf waters

Discovery of cryptotephra at Middle–Upper Paleolithic sites Arma Veirana and Riparo Bombrini, Italy: a new link for broader geographic correlations

The RESET project: constructing a European tephra lattice for refined synchronisation of environmental and archaeological events during the last c. 100 ka

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