Coastal Landscapes at Palaikastro, Eastern Crete, from the Late Neolithic to the Bronze Age and Historical Periods
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Abstract
This paper presents new sedimentological and faunal data obtained from two palaeoenvironmental cores extracted near the Bronze Age urban centre of Palaikastro, eastern Crete, and provides valuable insights into the coastal landscape history during the Neolithic and the Early Minoan periods, as well as snapshots into later chronological periods and landscape phases. Our combined results indicate that during the Late Neolithic (before 3822–3710 cal BCE) a low energy, oligohaline estuary occupied the study area. The estuary gave way to an open and shallow marine lagoon during the Final Neolithic (3531–3354 cal BCE). A short-lived phase of alluvial deposition resulted in sea regression and the creation of coastal marshes at the beginning of the Early Minoan period (between 2924–2872 and 2822–2629 cal BCE), whereas later in the Early Minoan period (2580-2469 and 2466–2175 cal BCE), lagoonal/shallow marine conditions were re-established. Although our data do not bear evidence of the mid-2nd mil. BCE Thera eruption (e.g. tephra or tsunami deposits), further research is clearly needed to reconstruct the coastal landscape history for the next ca. 1000 years, between the Early Minoan IIB and the Late Minoan IIIA period. Yet, evidence for important changes exists after the Theran eruption, when, presently undated, flash flood deposits of terrestrial origin impacted the coastal zone, resulting in sea regression and the creation of marshes. By the thirteenth to fourteenth century CE, thick deposits blanketed the coastal plain and the landscape started to resemble its modern morphology. Integration of sedimentological and faunal evidence with the multi-proxy Palaikastro off- and on-site dataset highlights the complex interplay of ecological, climatic, geomorphological, economic and social factors in shaping the coastal landscape in the vicinity of the Bronze Age town.
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
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