“…Map of the Mediterranean, with the location of study areas presented in this article: A) Bogsak, Turkey; B) Urla, Turkey; C) Naxos, Greece; D) Catalonia, Spain; E) Galicia, Spain. Previous studies include: 1) southern Greece (Foxhall et al 2007); 2) Kea (Whitelaw 1991); 3) Lesvos (Schaus & Spencer 1994;Kizos & Koulouri 2006); 4) Kythera and Antikythera (Krahtopoulou & Frederick 2008;Bevan et al 2013); 5) southern France (Harfouche 2007); 6) Cyprus (Wagstaff 1992); 7) Galicia, north-west Spain (Ballesteros-Arias et al 2009;Ferro-Vasquez et al 2019); 8) Israel (Davidovich et al 2012;Porat et al 2018Porat et al , 2019; 9) Jordan (Kuijt et al 2007;Beckers et al 2013); 10) Crete (Betancourt & Hope Simpson 1992); 11) Murcia, south-east Spain (Puy & Balbo 2013); 12) Catalonia, north-east Spain (Boixadera et al 2016); 13) Pyrenees, France (Rendu et al 2015 inherent limitation: the dates relate only to the specific position sampled in the soil profile. A recently developed, innovative approach for dating earthwork features and agricultural terraces represents a major advance in dealing with this problem (see Kinnaird et al 2017a;Turner et al 2018).…”