Après le Déluge : évolution géomorphologique du delta du Danube après la reconnexion Mer Noire - Méditerranée et ses implications sur le peuplement énéolithique / Chalcolithique

Abstract

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Late-Holocene landscape evolution and human presence in the northern Danube delta (Chilia distributary lobes)

“…Elemental determinations were performed using energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (ED-XRF) to gain insight into the mineralogic composition of the sediments. Analyses were performed using a portable Bruker Tracer S1 Titan spectrometer, that Carozza et al, 2013;KP1 and KP2 in Filip and Giosan, 2014;F16 and F18 in Vespremeanu-Stroe et al, 2017) are indicated by yellow squares. The dashed line with the L5 mark (Vespremeanu-Stroe et al, 2016) indicates the boundary between longshore and fluvial borne sediments.…”

“…OSL dating was performed at the Luminescence and Gamma Spectrometry Laboratory (LEGaL), Institute of Geosciences of the University of São Paulo (USP). After the 180-250 µm grainsize fraction was isolated and organic matter, carbonates, heavy minerals, and feldspars were removed following standard Carozza et al, 2013), KP1 and KP2 (Filip and Giosan, 2014), and F16 and F18 (Vespremeanu-Stroe et al, 2017).…”

“…We have collected and discussed the whole evidence, checked the finds and the discovery spots during, and provide here a critical synthesis. In the Romanian part of the northern Danube delta, itinerant archaeological surveys are conducted from the 1970s (Micu et al, 2011(Micu et al, , 2016Simion, 1971; https://map.cimec.ro/Mapserver/) and excavations have been undertaken on the late Chalcolithic Taraschina tell settlement (near Mila 23) (Carozza et al, 2011(Carozza et al, , 2012(Carozza et al, , 2013 and Dâmbul lui Haralambie (Mihail et al, 2014) emplaced on pre-deltaic loess between Chilia and Sulina arms. Across the Chilia lobes, the earliest inhumations date back to the Early Bronze Age in tumuli from Chilia loess promontory which also contain secondary inhumations traces from the Late Bronze Age, Antiquity, and Early Middle Age (Motzoi-Chicideanu, 2011;Vasiliu, 1995).…”

Phytolith evidence of cereal processing in the Danube Delta during the Chalcolithic period

“…Core 10. Sedimentological analysis has been focused on core 10, on which laser grain-size (Coulter Beckman 200), geochemical (XRF, AVAATECH) analyses and Magnetic Susceptibility (Bartington MS2E) have been carried out (Carozza et al, 2013). This core (Fig.…”

“…This core (Fig. 3) can be subdivided into four main units (see Carozza et al, 2013): 1) from 300 to 259 cm (US1), fine pale brown sediments of massive structure that were interpreted as loess and palaeosoil developed on loess; from 259 to 153 cm (US2), alternated dark silt and clay were interpreted as fluviolacustrine deposits, consistent with the faunal remains (shells and fishbones); from 153 to 108 cm (US3), the deposit is a more homogeneous clay-silt organic layer; the top of the core (US4a and b) is composed of an alternation of clay-silt and sandy levels, indicating a fluvial (and more dynamic) origin.…”