Temple-complex post-dates tsunami deposits found in the ancient harbour basin of Ostia (Rome, Italy)

Hadler, Hanna; Vött, Andreas; Fischer, Peter; Ludwig, Stefanie; Heinzelmann, Michael; Rohn, Corinna

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2015.05.002

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“…Species include A. beccarii , Cassidulina spp., Globigerinoides spp. and C. pseudoungerinus , accompanied by Brizalina spp., Bulimina spp., Cibicides refulgens and Haynesina depressula , typical of the local marine environment (Bellotti et al ., ; Hadler et al ., ). All individuals are well‐preserved and show no signs of reworking or weathering.…”

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“…Hadler et al . () and Vött et al . () showed that the Ostia lagoon‐type harbour was artificially excavated from fluvio‐marine sands during the early 4th Century bc but archaeological evidence of harbour infrastructure from that time has not been recovered so far.…”

Section: Physical and Archaeological Settingmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…Considering both archaeological data and geological evidence, it is more than likely that the site of the Ostia lagoonal harbour, probably as a river harbour, was used at least until the middle of the 1st Century ad when Portus was founded (Vött et al ., ). Tentatively, the harbour worked even longer, as may be suggested by stratigraphic and geochronological data (Hadler et al ., ) as well as by archaeological findings associated with harbour structures ( navalia ) and trading activities. It therefore seems as if Ostia gained in importance as a port of transhipment and commercial trade by the founding of the harbour of Portus during the Roman Imperial Period.…”

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confidence: 99%

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River channel evolution and tsunami impacts recorded in local sedimentary archives – the ‘Fiume Morto’ at Ostia Antica (Tiber River, Italy)

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Ostia, the ancient port of Rome at the mouth of the river Tiber (Italy), flourished until the 2nd Century ad, although massive siltation had already caused the abandonment of its lagoonal harbour in the 1st Century bc. In search of an alternative harbour site, geomorphological and geoarchaeological research was carried out in the ‘Fiume Morto’, an abandoned Tiber meander to the immediate north of the town. To reconstruct its complex development and evaluate the suitability of the river channel as a fluvial harbour, a transect perpendicular to the former river channel's flow axis was systematically explored by a new methodological approach combining electrical resistivity tomography, direct push‐electrical conductivity sensing and vibracores. Together with microfossil, mineralogical and geochemical analyses of sediment samples and 50 radiocarbon dates, in‐depth stratigraphic data support a detailed reconstruction of different Tiber channel generations. Results reveal a meander development closely related to distinct ‘cut and fill’ dynamics. Inactive river channels were repeatedly filled with lagoonal sediments, abruptly followed by phases of intense incision. Yet, the overall Fiume Morto channel structure remained stable and almost in situ over centuries, showing nearly no lateral changes since the southward shift of the Tiber River mouth in the first millennium bc. In the 1st Century bc, channel conditions favoured navigation and transportation of goods with large ships. Open‐water conditions, suitable for anchoring and landing activities, dominate from the 1st Century ad until 1557 ad, when the Fiume Morto meander was finally cut off and silted up within a short time. Within the fluvial deposits, sediments most likely related to tsunami inundations are preserved. These events occurred sometime before the 2nd Century bc, in the early 1st Century ad and in the 17th Century ad or later. Results are consistent with traces of tsunami influence found in Ostia's western lagoonal harbour.

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“…Paleoenvironmental data comes mainly from the littoral (Bellotti et al, 1995(Bellotti et al, , 2007C. Giraudi, 2004;Milli et al, 2013) or the lagoonal systems (Di Rita, Celant, & Magri, 2009;Bellotti et al, 2011;Carlo Giraudi, 2011;Vittori et al, 2015), or else from the harbor basins of Portus and Ostia (C. Giraudi, Tata, & Paroli, 2009;Goiran et al, 2010Goiran et al, , 2014Hadler et al, 2015), but little data available for the Tiber channel during the Holocene.…”

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“…Historical and archaeological scientific literature attests that Ostia was a harbor city connecting Rome to the Mediterranean Sea and that it controlled access to the Tiber River. Recently, the location of a harbor basin has been confirmed on the left bank of the Tiber at Ostia (Heinzelmann & Martin, 2002;Goiran et al, 2014;Hadler et al, 2015), but it is small in size when compared to the basins at Portus (Keay et al, 2005;Goiran et al, 2010). Considering the recent discovery of warehouses facing both sides of the river mouth (Keay, Parcak, & Strutt, 2014), it is possible that the entire Tiber channel flowing through Ostia was a linear harbor.…”

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Long‐Term Interactions between the Roman City of Ostia and Its Paleomeander, Tiber Delta, Italy

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This study examines the long term interactions between the well-known Roman city of Ostia and a river meander. Located at the mouth of the Tiber River, Ostia was a major harbor city that connected Rome to the Mediterranean Sea. Based on aerial photography and boreholes analysis, the paleodynamics of the Fiume Morto's paleomeander are understood to be linked to the urban evolution of the city of Ostia. Four periods of evolution have been identified as a result of this interdisciplinary work: (1) the foundation of Ostia's urban center, in the 4 th -3 rd century BC, occurred when the meander already existed;(2) between the 4 th century BC and the 3 rd century AD, human/environmental interactions contributed to the compound growing of the meander which possibly eroded an important Roman road linking Ostia to Rome; (3) from the Imperial period until the meander was cut off in AD 1557-1562, the constricted meander channel at the apex led to the stability of the downstream river channel; (4) the cut off of the paleomeander was completed in 1562, leading to the filling of the paleochannel. These successive phases of channel evolution mark changing fluvial risks from the Roman period to today.

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Sedimentary record of a late Holocene storm event in Laizhou Bay, Bohai Sea, China

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Temple-complex post-dates tsunami deposits found in the ancient harbour basin of Ostia (Rome, Italy)

Cited by 23 publications

References 17 publications

River channel evolution and tsunami impacts recorded in local sedimentary archives – the ‘Fiume Morto’ at Ostia Antica (Tiber River, Italy)

River channel evolution and tsunami impacts recorded in local sedimentary archives – the ‘Fiume Morto’ at Ostia Antica (Tiber River, Italy)

Long‐Term Interactions between the Roman City of Ostia and Its Paleomeander, Tiber Delta, Italy

Sedimentary record of a late Holocene storm event in Laizhou Bay, Bohai Sea, China

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