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MARINE GEOLOGY
Volume 170, Issue 1-2, Pages 205-230Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(00)00075-X
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recent Holocene; coastal changes; relative sea level changes; Mediterranean; Cyprus; Larnaca; Kition; geomorphology; geoarcheology
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Sedimentological, paleontological analysis and C-14 dating of 17 cores obtained in the vicinity of the Phoenician military harbor (VIII-IV BC) of Kition Bamboula (Cyprus) provide new paleo-environmental information for the reconstruction of shoreline changes for Kition and Larnaca Bay over the last 3000 years. We propose that a communication existed between the inner harbor of Bamboula (presently 400 m inland) and the not-them district of Lichines, which was a marine embayment. Our core data led us to revisit the previous hypothesis of a direct east-west channel between the harbor and the open sea (Nicolaou, K., 1976. The historical topography of Kition. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Goteborg, vol, 153, pp. 1-373; Gifford, J.A., 1978. Paleogeography of archaelogical sites of the Larnaca lowlands, southeastern Cyprus, PhD Thesis, University of Minnesota, pp. 1-192). We propose instead that a spit of coarse material isolated the lagoon from the open sea from 2600 to 1600 years BP. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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