Dynamiques géomorphologiques et typologie géoarcheologique des ports antiques en contextes lagunaires

Morhange, Christophe; Marriner, Nick; Blot, María Luisa P.; Bony, Guénaëlle; Carayon, Nicolas; González, Pilar Carmona; Flaux, Clément; Giaime, Matthieu; Goiran, Jean‐Philippe; Kouka, Mourad; Lena, Anna; Oueslati, A.; Pasquinucci, Marinella; Porotov, Alexei

doi:10.4000/quaternaire.7215

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“…A nuraghe (Bronce Age), at 2,500 m from the coast, provides a minimum date for progradation. These changes are consistent with those described in many ancient Mediterranean sea or lagoon ports, which were left landlocked as a result of deltaic progradation (Morhange et al, 2015).…”

Section: Coastline Changes: Infilling Of the Lagoons And Progradationsupporting

confidence: 89%

“…Recent geoarchaeological research has improved our knowledge of Mediterranean coastal environmental changes in the Holocene (Marriner and Morhange, 2007;Anthony et al, 2014;Morhange et al, 2015). Around the town of Terralba (SE Sardinia), archaeological surveys detected a large concentration of rural settlements dating from Punic and Roman times (Van Dommelen, 1998).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Geomorphology and environmental change around the Punic sites of the Terralba plain (Oristano Gulf, Sardinia, Italy)

Ruiz¹,

González²,

Gómez-Bellard³

et al. 2018

Bol. geol. min.

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We report a geomorphological study of the coastal plain of Terralba (SW coast of the island of Sardinia, Italy) in order to contextualize the high concentration of Punic rural settlements and analyze the environmental changes. The methodology is based on a detailed geomorphological study and sedimentological analysis of several records from different environments in artificial cuts and cores (chronology from archaeological remains and 14C dating). The study was also completed with information from various cartographic sources, and historical and geoarchaeological data. The Punic sites are located on a wide alluvial plain, modelled by aeolian sand mantles and wetlands, between the floodplain of the Sitzerri-Mannu and Mogoro rivers. Extensive aeolian units (Holocene and Pleistocene) are the most characteristic features of the geomorphology of the area. The results provide useful information on the environmental context of the Punic settlements on the coastal plain of Terralba, while evidence of significant geomorphological and environmental changes were found for over two millennia affecting the coastline, lagoon, marsh, aeolian and fluviodeltaic environments. The emergence of fresh water in the "paulis" or small depressions interspersed between dunes and well-drained soils suitable for cultivation have been a factor in the settlement of Punic farms.

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Section: Coastline Changes: Infilling Of the Lagoons And Progradationsupporting

confidence: 89%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Geomorphology and environmental change around the Punic sites of the Terralba plain (Oristano Gulf, Sardinia, Italy)

Ruiz¹,

González²,

Gómez-Bellard³

et al. 2018

Bol. geol. min.

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“…Infilled lagoonal harbours in deltaic contexts are the best represented type of lagoonal harbours (see Morhange et al, , 2016. The lagoon of Pollentia, situated on the margin of the vast palaeo-lagoon of s'Albufera, has undergone the same geomorphological evolution as deltaic lagoons.…”

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“…for Kition, capital of a Phoenician kingdom, during the first millennium BC. Another harbour was possibly located in the same context to the northwest at Kathari (Bony et al, 2016). The lagoonal harbour of Cumae-Licola, situated down-drift from the Volturno river was a protected mooring area during Archaic times.…”

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In search of Pollentia's southern harbour: Geoarchaeological evidence from the Bay of Alcúdia (Mallorca, Spain)

Giaime

Morhange

Ontiveros

et al. 2017

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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The Roman city of Pollentia was founded on the northeastern coast of Mallorca (Balearic archipelago) after the Roman conquest of the island in 123 BC. There is evidence that the city had two harbours, a small harbour located to the north, whereas the main harbour was located to the south of Pollentia. Our study focuses on the southern harbour, on a coastal plain in proximity to the ancient city. Four sedimentary cores were taken and bio-sedimentological analysis were performed. Here, we describe the palaeogeographical changes in this area, evolving from an open lagoon environment between ca. 3200 and ca. 500 cal. years BC to a semi-enclosed lagoon during Roman times. Progressively, the lagoon became silted and was isolated from the sea by the development of a large sand spit, probably during the second half of the first millennium AD. We also discuss the water depth, linked to the palaeo sea level, which is important in defining the possible ancient harbour location. Highlights A lagoon was situated near the city of Pollentia during Roman times. This lagoon probably hosted one of the city's harbours. Chronostratigraphy supports a harbour foundation between 1 st c. BC and the 1 st c. AD. A chronological gap of 1000 years suggests dredging.

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“…In the context of the southern Levantine coast, this hypothesis was first advanced by Raban () to explain the significant number of coastal sites established near estuaries during the Bronze Age. Although such environments certainly constituted sheltered areas during storms and high swell, they were subjected to natural hazards of both continental and marine origin, mainly linked to high sediment supply leading to coastal progradation (Anthony, ; Anthony, Marriner, & Morhange, ; Morhange et al., ). In the microtidal regime of the Levant, we can identify wave‐dominated lagoonal estuaries partially open to the sea by an inlet (Reinson, ).…”

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Geoarchaeological investigations at Akko, Israel: New insights into landscape changes and related anchorage locations since the Bronze Age

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Since the first archaeological excavations undertaken in the 1970s/1980s, Tel Akko is known to have been an important trade city from the early 2nd millennium B.C. onwards. Even if the site has been intensively excavated, no paleoenvironmental studies looking to understand coastal changes near the tell since the Bronze Age had been undertaken until recently. Our research is based on the study of sediment cores drilled at the foot of the tell and in the Old City of Akko, 1,500 m west of the tell. We validate the coastal changes, already proposed by previous studies, while clarifying the chronology of these changes. We propose that the southern anchorage was located in the river mouth of the Na'aman until the early Persian period. This anchorage shifted to the “open” western coast of the tell during the Persian period before its subsequent relocation to the rocky promontory of Akko in Hellenistic times. We attempted to locate the Hellenistic harbor of Akko by coring in the Old City, in proximity to the modern harbor. At that time, a harbor lay in a semi‐protected pocket beach at the foot of the promontory.

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Dynamiques géomorphologiques et typologie géoarcheologique des ports antiques en contextes lagunaires

Abstract: , « Dynamiques géomorphologiques et typologie géoarcheologique des ports antiques en contextes lagunaires »,

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References 103 publications

Geomorphology and environmental change around the Punic sites of the Terralba plain (Oristano Gulf, Sardinia, Italy)

Geomorphology and environmental change around the Punic sites of the Terralba plain (Oristano Gulf, Sardinia, Italy)

In search of Pollentia's southern harbour: Geoarchaeological evidence from the Bay of Alcúdia (Mallorca, Spain)

Geoarchaeological investigations at Akko, Israel: New insights into landscape changes and related anchorage locations since the Bronze Age

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