Climate variability and landscape dynamics in the Late Hellenistic and Roman north-eastern Peloponnese

Bonnier, Anton; Finné, Martin

doi:10.15184/aqy.2020.34

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“…The second phase during the HRB period, with the persistence of olive cultivation together with stabilisation of other environmental markers (erosion, fire, biodiversity), is striking. Contrary to what Bonnier and Finn e (2020) suggested in the North-Eastern Peloponnese at the regional level, we do not see here any adaptation and/or change in land-use during the drier conditions of the Late Hellenistic-Roman period. Young olives, in particular, require high levels of watering (Foxhall, 2007, p. 110); thus, the location of extensive olive groves adjacent to a lake makes perfect sense.…”

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Olive groves around the lake. A ten-thousand-year history of a Cretan landscape (Greece) reveals the dominant role of humans in making this Mediterranean ecosystem

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Section: Land Use Land Cover and Biodiversitycontrasting

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Olive groves around the lake. A ten-thousand-year history of a Cretan landscape (Greece) reveals the dominant role of humans in making this Mediterranean ecosystem

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Pedrotta

Debret

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“…Izdebski et al, 2016; Mercuri and Sadori, 2014; Mercuri et al, 2019; Weiberg et al, 2019). However, there are still relatively few multi-proxy studies that associate the regional archeological record with paleoenvironmental proxies in Greece and are usually limited to specific periods of interest (Bonnier and Finné, 2020; Finné et al, 2011; Luterbacher et al, 2012).…”

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Late-Holocene paleoenvironmental and land-use changes in Western Greece based on a sediment record from Klisova lagoon

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In this study, we present the findings of a sediment core retrieved from Klisova lagoon, Western Greece, an area with a long record of documented human presence. The recovered deposits were subjected to sedimentological, XRF, and micropaleontological analyses. For the last 4700 cal BP, the freshwater influx, the progradation of the Evinos river delta and related geomorphological changes control the environmental conditions in the lagoon. Considering the centennial temporal resolution of our analyses, small offsets of c.a. 50 years due to lack of regional reservoir correction do not considerably impact the reported radiocarbon ages. Prior to 4000 cal BP, a relatively shallow water depth, significant terrestrial/freshwater input and increased weathering in the lagoon area are inferred. Elemental proxies and increased dinoflagellate cyst and foraminiferal abundances, which indicate marine conditions with prominent freshwater influxes, point to the gradual deepening of the lagoon up to 2000 cal BP. The marine and freshwater condition equilibrium sets at 1300 cal BP, with the lagoonal system reaching its present state. Maxima of anthropogenic pollen indicators during the Mycenaean (3200 cal BP), Hellenistic (2200 cal BP), and Late Byzantine (800 cal BP) periods suggest intervals of increased anthropogenic activities in the area.

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“…The shaded area highlights the duration of relative archaeological periods in the first millennium BC: PG = Protogeometric; EG–MG: Early to Middle Geometric; LG = Late Geometric. Adapted after Bonnier and Finné 2020: fig. 2. …”

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7 Recent research on climate, environment, and society in the ancient Greek world

Bonnier

2023

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Recent research within Mediterranean archaeology has been increasingly concerned with societal responses to past climate changes in the Holocene. In Greek archaeology, such studies have benefited from an increasing volume of palaeoclimatic proxy data that has recently been made available from the Greek mainland. The current review discusses recent debates on climate and society in the ancient Greek world and also provides an overview of proxy records from Greece that have been published in the last 10 years. The paper further presents a focused discussion on the state of the available palaeoclimatological evidence for the first millennium BC. New palaeoclimatological proxy series from lake, marine, and wetland sediments, as well as from speleothem proxy records, provide important data that has been lacking for the Greek mainland in the past. These records provide new, promising avenues for integrative interdisciplinary research focused on human–environment dynamics in different periods of Greek antiquity, but challenges persist in how we can integrate and understand past climate shifts in connection with the archaeological evidence.

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Climate variability and landscape dynamics in the Late Hellenistic and Roman north-eastern Peloponnese

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Cited by 10 publications

References 35 publications

Olive groves around the lake. A ten-thousand-year history of a Cretan landscape (Greece) reveals the dominant role of humans in making this Mediterranean ecosystem

Olive groves around the lake. A ten-thousand-year history of a Cretan landscape (Greece) reveals the dominant role of humans in making this Mediterranean ecosystem

Late-Holocene paleoenvironmental and land-use changes in Western Greece based on a sediment record from Klisova lagoon

7 Recent research on climate, environment, and society in the ancient Greek world

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