Sea-level change during the Holocene in Sardinia and in the northeastern Adriatic (central Mediterranean Sea) from archaeological and geomorphological data

Antonioli, Fabrizio; Anzidei, Marco; Lambeck, Kurt; Auriemma, Rita; Gaddi, D.; Furlani, Stefano; Orrù, Paolo; Solinas, Emanuela; Gaspari, Andrej; Karinja, Snježana; Kovačić, Vladimir; Surace, L.

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.06.022

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“…1C). The Bay of Muggia was affected by a tectonic down lift of about 1.6 m over the last two millennia (17,18) and has suffered considerable silting up since the Roman Age, due to natural sedimentary alluvial processes and historic human-made landfills (19). Another Roman fortification, preliminarily described by Bernardini et al (12), stands on Mt.…”

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Early Roman military fortifications and the origin of Trieste, Italy

Bernardini

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Horvat

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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An interdisciplinary study of the archaeological landscape of the Trieste area (northeastern Italy), mainly based on airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR), ground penetrating radar (GPR), and archaeological surveys, has led to the discovery of an early Roman fortification system, composed of a big central camp (San Rocco) flanked by two minor forts. The most ancient archaeological findings, including a Greco–Italic amphora rim produced in Latium or Campania, provide a relative chronology for the first installation of the structures between the end of the third century B.C. and the first decades of the second century B.C. whereas other materials, such as Lamboglia 2 amphorae and a military footwear hobnail (type D of Alesia), indicate that they maintained a strategic role at least up to the mid first century B.C. According to archaeological data and literary sources, the sites were probably established in connection with the Roman conquest of the Istria peninsula in 178–177 B.C. They were in use, perhaps not continuously, at least until the foundation of Tergeste, the ancestor of Trieste, in the mid first century B.C. The San Rocco site, with its exceptional size and imposing fortifications, is the main known Roman evidence of the Trieste area during this phase and could correspond to the location of the first settlement of Tergeste preceding the colony foundation. This hypothesis would also be supported by literary sources that describe it as a phrourion (Strabo, V, 1, 9, C 215), a term used by ancient writers to designate the fortifications of the Roman army

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Early Roman military fortifications and the origin of Trieste, Italy

Bernardini

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Horvat

et al. 2015

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…These data contribute to the estimation of the intervening relative value of the sea level changes for that location (with related uncertainties represented by the error bar in the plots). See Table 1 in our text and other similar tables in other papers (Table 1 in Antonioli et al, 2007;Lambeck et al, 2004;Anzidei et al, 2011a, b;Anzidei et al, 2013, and references therein, etc. ).…”

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“…Functional elevations define also the minimum elevation of the structure above the local highest tides. Lambeck et al (2004) first introduced the basics of "functional elevation" that was later applied by Antonioli et al (2007) and later re-explained by Auriemma and Solinas (2009). The functional heights and the possible errors are estimated on the basis of the observed indicators.…”

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Reply to comment by C. Morhange, C. Flaux, P.A. Pirazzoli, M.B. Carre on “Holocene Sea level Change in Malta”

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Antonioli

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“…The functional height was added to the obtained mean depth values of the representative segments to allow comparisons of the data in general [8]. Functional height is considered as measure of the emerged part with respect to the average sea level [35].…”

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“…In our work, we have correlated geomorphological and archaeological markers all along the coast [1][2][3][4] placing them both in the geological and geomorphological regional setting. The Kvarner and Istria area has been closely studied lately [5][6][7][8][9][10].…”

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Relative Sea-Level Change During the Late Holocene on the Island of Vis (Croatia) – Issa Harbour Archaeological Site

2010

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The 2.4 ka shoreline evolution on the Island of Vis has been investigated. It represents a particularly interesting area for this kind of investigation due to the existence of the submerged archaeological remains, the antique port of Issa, as well as to the existence of geomorphological and biological sea-level markers. The actual depths of the different parts of the submerged quay have been mapped and measured with respect to the present mean sea-level, applying corrections for tide and atmospheric pressure values at the time of the surveys. The functional heights related to the sea level at the time of construction have also been taken into account. These data were further compared with predictions derived from a glacio-hydro-isostatic model associated with the Last Glacial cycle. During the investigation of the coast, tidal notches and algal rims were found. They were mapped, measured and correlated with results of the submerged port remains, as well as with other available data along the Croatian coast. Our results demonstrate a 199±25 cm sea-level change during 2.4 ka on the Island of Vis. Taking into account the total relative sea-level change, an average rate of around ~0.83 mm/yr is derived. If the isostatic-eustatic component is separated, a tectonic subsidence rate ranges between 0.17 and 0.3 mm/yr depending on the predicted model used. Compared to the Northern Adriatic area, the Island of Vis shows a much smaller component of tectonic subsidence.

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Sea-level change during the Holocene in Sardinia and in the northeastern Adriatic (central Mediterranean Sea) from archaeological and geomorphological data

Cited by 198 publications

References 38 publications

Early Roman military fortifications and the origin of Trieste, Italy

Early Roman military fortifications and the origin of Trieste, Italy

Reply to comment by C. Morhange, C. Flaux, P.A. Pirazzoli, M.B. Carre on “Holocene Sea level Change in Malta”

Relative Sea-Level Change During the Late Holocene on the Island of Vis (Croatia) – Issa Harbour Archaeological Site

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