Special issue of Geoarchaeology: Urban geoarchaeology in the Mediterranean Basin

Bini, Mónica; Fabiani, F.; Pappalardo, Marta; Schuldenrein, Joseph

doi:10.1002/gea.21674

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“…Prepalatial 2900-2300/2150 2650-2450/2400 EM IIA PK III 2450/2400-2200 EM IIB PK IV 2300/2150-2150/2025 2200-2100/2050 EM III PK V 2050/2025-1930/19002100/2150-1925/1900MM IA Protopalatial 1930/1900-c. 18501925/1900-1875 (Warren, 2007) or 1627-1600 Friedrich et al (2006) PK X X X human behaviors and environmental features (Bini, Fabiani, Pappalardo, & Schuldenrein, 2018). Archaeological micromorphology (a microscale geoarchaeological method) has been used at various types of settlement sites to access occupational activities and transitional phases, and to understand human behavior (e.g., Matthews, French, Lawrence, Cutler, & Jones, 1996 [Çatalhöyük]; Goldberg et al, 2009 [Sibudu Cave]; Karkanas & Efstratiou, 2009 [Makri]; Karkanas & Van der Moortel, 2014 [Mitrou]).…”

Section: Minoan Cultural Periods Palap Building Construction/usementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Geoarchaeology, as applied to Mediterranean urban archaeological contexts, has proven effective in supplying information on human behaviors and environmental features (Bini, Fabiani, Pappalardo, & Schuldenrein, ). Archaeological micromorphology (a microscale geoarchaeological method) has been used at various types of settlement sites to access occupational activities and transitional phases, and to understand human behavior (e.g., Matthews, French, Lawrence, Cutler, & Jones, [Çatalhöyük]; Goldberg et al, [Sibudu Cave]; Karkanas & Efstratiou, [Makri]; Karkanas & Van der Moortel, [Mitrou]).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Urban micromorphology: A microecological narrative of a Neopalatial neighborhood at Bronze Age Palaikastro, Crete

Kulick

2019

Geoarchaeology

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The new micromorphological evidence from the 2013–2015 Palace and Landscape at Palaikastro (PALAP) excavations (Crete, Greece) provides significant information on a new area of the Bronze Age urban center of Palaikastro and its surrounding environment—a microecological narrative. The evidence suggests that slope processes had a significant impact on the area of three newly excavated buildings during the Neopalatial period (1650/1640–1440/1430 B.C.). The findings indicate that phases of gradual sediment accumulation, associated with flooding and eolian deposition, occurred during the Middle Minoan III to Late Minoan IA periods; such phases may indicate active slope or landscape management (e.g., terracing). In contrast, periods of increased slope instability, possibly relating to abandonment phases, occurred in the Late Minoan IB period. Combined with other archaeological evidence, micromorphological observations suggest a local aridity event in Late Minoan IB, and this dry period may be connected to larger regional and Mediterranean climatic patterns.

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Section: Minoan Cultural Periods Palap Building Construction/usementioning

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Urban micromorphology: A microecological narrative of a Neopalatial neighborhood at Bronze Age Palaikastro, Crete

Kulick

2019

Geoarchaeology

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“…1), going under the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus to link old Stamboul to the Asian side of the city, have resulted in a proliferation of conservation-oriented archaeological excavations associated with environmental studies where ancient cities once stood; in this instance the identification of the bed of the River Saône in the early Iron Age (VOISIN, 2010), and the excavation of a 10 th -11 th C AD Byzantine port (DEGREMONT, 2009). This is a major opportunity to bring together urban development, archaeology, and history; and to encourage understanding of environmental processes amongst urban populations by integrating the notion of heritage into this understanding (BINI et al, 2018). This is of importance to the whole world, and especially to the world's major cities.…”

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Human Impacts on Landscapes: Lessons of Cities From the Past

Fouache¹,

Desruelles²

2020

WMD

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The first cities emerged in the Middle East at the end of the 4th millennium BC. Studies in the field of archaeology, geomorphology, geoscience and history allow us to understand which types of hazards were affecting the cities, and how they had an impact on landscapes in the past, in the Middle East, but also in other parts of the world. There is much to be gained: these studies are fundamental to a better understanding of present-day hazards, to urban development, but also to remembering our heritage. Cities have always been susceptible to nature’s risks and natural disasters but have also – through urban development and through the proximity of great numbers of human beings –, generated their own specific hazards.

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“…Many Mediterranean coastal cities have a long history, in some cases extending back thousands of years (e.g., Bini et al, 2018). For this reason, the development of methodological approaches adapted to interpretation of geologic and archaeological evidence in urban contexts represents one of the most promising branches of geoarchaeological research (Butzer, 2008; Bini et al, 2018). Archaeological remains of harbours and maritime structures have been shown to be important archives of past variations in RSL (e.g., Morhange et al, 2001; Anzidei et al, 2014; Benjamin et al, 2017), notably for the last three millennia (e.g., Galili et al, 1988; Lambeck et al, 2004; Fontana et al, 2017).…”

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Millennial variability of rates of sea-level rise in the ancient harbour of Naples (Italy, western Mediterranean Sea)

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We reconstructed the late Holocene relative sea-level (RSL) evolution of the ancient harbour of Naples, one of the largest coastal conurbations in the Mediterranean. We carried out multiproxy investigations, coupling archaeological evidence with biological indicators. Our data robustly constrain 2000 yr of non-monotonic changes in sea level, chiefly controlled by the complex volcano-tectonic processes that characterize the area. Between ~200 BC and AD ~0, a subsidence rate of more than ~1.5 mm/yr enhanced the postglacial RSL rise, while negligible or moderate land uplift < ~0.5 mm/yr triggered a RSL stabilization during the Roman period (first five centuries AD). This stabilization was followed by a post-Roman enhancement of the sea-level rise when ground motion was negative, attested by a subsidence rate of ~0.5 to ~1 mm/yr. Our analysis seems to indicate very minor impacts of this nonmonotonic RSL evolution on the activities of the ancient harbour of Naples, which peaked from the third century BC to the second century AD. After this period, the progressive silting of the harbour basin made it impossible to safely navigate within the basin, leading to the progressive decline of the harbour.

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Special issue of Geoarchaeology: Urban geoarchaeology in the Mediterranean Basin

Cited by 11 publications

References 49 publications

Urban micromorphology: A microecological narrative of a Neopalatial neighborhood at Bronze Age Palaikastro, Crete

Urban micromorphology: A microecological narrative of a Neopalatial neighborhood at Bronze Age Palaikastro, Crete

Human Impacts on Landscapes: Lessons of Cities From the Past

Millennial variability of rates of sea-level rise in the ancient harbour of Naples (Italy, western Mediterranean Sea)

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