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QUATERNARY RESEARCH
卷 78, 期 1, 页码 35-49出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.03.005
关键词
Tombola; Geomorphology; Geoarchaeology; Coasts; Harbor; Ras Ibn Hani; Ugarit; Syria; Levant; Bronze Age; Holocene
资金
- Mission archeologique syrofrancaise de Ras Shamra-Ougarit (MAEE-DGAMS)
- ANR PaleoSyr (Holocene palaeoenvironments and settlement patterns in Western Syria), Artemis SHS
Ras Ibn Hani peninsula, a wave-dominated tombolo (800 x 1000 m) on the Syrian coast, provides evidence for significant Holocene changes that can be linked to geological inheritance, rising post-glacial sea level, sediment supply and human impacts. Initial development of Ras Ibn Hani's coastal system began similar to 8000 years ago when shallow marine environments formed in a context of rising post-glacial sea level. Following relative sea-level stabilization similar to 6000 cal yr BP, beach facies trace the gradual formation of a wave-dominated sandbank fronted by a similar to 2300 x similar to 500 m palaeo-island whose environmental potentiality was attractive to Bronze Age societies. A particularly rapid phase of tombolo accretion is observed after similar to 3500 cal yr BP characterised by a two- to fourfold increase in sedimentation rates. This is consistent with (i) a pulse in sediment supply probably driven by Bronze Age/Iron Age soil erosion in local catchments, and (ii) positive feedback mechanisms linked to regionally attested neotectonics. Archaeological remains and radiocarbon datings confirm that the subaerial tombolo was probably in place by the Late Bronze Age. These data fit tightly with other eastern Mediterranean tombolo systems suggesting that there is a great deal of predictability to their geology and stratigraphy at the regional scale. (C) 2012 University of Washington. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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