Late Pleistocene Environmental Factors of the Aegean Region (Aegean Sea Including the Hellenic Arc) and the Identification of Potential Areas for Seabed Prehistoric Sites and Landscapes

Sakellariou, D.; Lykousis, V.; Geraga, Maria; Rousakis, G.; Soukisian, Takvor

doi:10.1002/9781118927823.ch15

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Greece: Unstable Landscapes and Underwater Archaeology

Galanidou

Dellaporta

Sakellariou

2020

Coastal Research Library

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The submerged archaeology of Greece extends from the Palaeolithic to the early Byzantine period. It offers valuable information on some of the critical themes of Eurasian prehistory: hominin dispersals, settlement patterns, strategies of survival, population movements and sea voyaging, communication and trade, highenergy destructive events and climate change. This overview focuses on the prehistoric record. It includes partly or fully submerged palaeontological sites as well as archaeological sites. All these are testimonies to the more extensive coastal mosaic of biotopes that were available to prehistoric people prior to c. 4000 cal BP in the Holocene and during the cold and arid periods of the Pleistocene. They show coastal and maritime lifeways in dynamically changing landscapes connecting Asia and Europe. They are now located on the Greek continental shelf due to eustatic and isostatic change as well as the heavy imprint of tectonic activity.

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Greece: Unstable Landscapes and Underwater Archaeology

Galanidou

Dellaporta

Sakellariou

2020

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The Aegean Archipelago as cradle: divergence of the glaphyrid genusPygopleurusand phylogeography ofP. foina

Avtzis¹,

Markoudi²,

Mizerakis

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Systematics and Biodiversity

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Parting the waters. Middle Palaeolithic archaeology in the central Ionian Sea

Galanidou¹

2018

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This paper sets out a conceptual framework based on the idea of connectivity, and the research design that informs a series of surveys and excavations in the central Ionian Sea targeting the Palaeolithic record. It highlights the importance of mapping the now submerged topography to get a better understanding of the relevant palaeogeography, and its wider implications for hominin settlement, landscape preferences and pathways of dispersal and expansion from mainland Greece into the Inner Ionian Archipelago and Lefkas. It argues that the sea and the offshore islands are not marginal or irrelevant but central to an understanding of Palaeolithic settlement and land use, especially during periods of low sea level. At these times, many islands would have become hills in an extensive coastal plain, representing ideal habitats for hunters and gatherers.

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Late Pleistocene Environmental Factors of the Aegean Region (Aegean Sea Including the Hellenic Arc) and the Identification of Potential Areas for Seabed Prehistoric Sites and Landscapes

Cited by 4 publications

References 78 publications

Greece: Unstable Landscapes and Underwater Archaeology

Greece: Unstable Landscapes and Underwater Archaeology

The Aegean Archipelago as cradle: divergence of the glaphyrid genusPygopleurusand phylogeography ofP. foina

Parting the waters. Middle Palaeolithic archaeology in the central Ionian Sea

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