Rebuilding coastal palaeo-landscapes in Apulia (Southern Italy).
Author(s): Giuseppe Mastronuzzi; Rita Auriemma; Fabrizio Antonioli; Marco Anzidei
Year: 2013
Summary
The coastal landscape of Southern Apulia from Monopoli to Tarantois are characterised by gently sloping rocky coasts marked by deep rias and bays alternating with low cliffs. The presence in the past of small villages, landing places, structured harbours or cities are today witnessed along the coastline by archaeological sites both submerged and emerged.
The position of quarries, tombs, sewer channels, cisterns, piers, fish tanks and shipwrecks of the Bronze Age, Classical and medieval periods have been surveyed through topographic measurements to evaluate their precise elevations with respect to the present mean sea level and the tidal range. The study of the archaeological sites of Torre San Vito, Egnatia, Torre Guaceto, San Cataldo, Otranto, Porto Cesareo, Torre Ovo and Torre Saturo facilitated the development of a new dataset used to improve the current estimate of the eustatic sea level curve relative to the last 5ka for this region.
Cite this Record
Rebuilding coastal palaeo-landscapes in Apulia (Southern Italy).. Giuseppe Mastronuzzi, Rita Auriemma, Fabrizio Antonioli, Marco Anzidei. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428487)
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Keywords
General
costal palaeo-landscapes
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Puglia
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sea-level changes
Geographic Keywords
ITALY
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Western Europe
Temporal Keywords
Bronze age - post-medieval period
Spatial Coverage
min long: 6.624; min lat: 36.649 ; max long: 18.513; max lat: 47.095 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 718