Fish tanks of eastern Crete (Greece) as indicators of the Roman sea level

Mourtzas, Nikos

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2012.02.006

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“…Morhange et al (2013) use Roman fish tanks in combination with biological markers to state a relative rise in sea level of 40 ± 10 cm since those days for the region of Fr ejus, southeastern France. Similar work is published, e.g., by Evelpidou et al (2012) for the Tyrrhenian Coast of Italy, by Mourtzas (2012) for the Greek island of Crete, and by Florido et al (2011) for the Istrian and Dalmatian coast, Italy and Croatia. Ship sheds in contrast to fish tanks cannot bear direct witness of former sea level because they have been built above the marine sphere but in close vicinity to it.…”

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The environs of Elaia's ancient open harbour – a reconstruction based on microfaunal evidence

Pint

Seeliger

Frenzel

et al. 2015

Journal of Archaeological Science

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The environs of Elaia's ancient open harbour – a reconstruction based on microfaunal evidence

Pint

Seeliger

Frenzel

et al. 2015

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…Previous data regarding Late Holocene sea levels along the Northern Aegean Sea coastline of Turkey indicated that the rising trend of sea level ceased at 6000 YBP based on both radiocarbon-dated mollusks and archaeological evidence from Karamenderes delta and was followed by a 2-m sea-level fall (Kayan, 1999). This is also confirmed by new data from beachrock on Bozcaada Island (Erginal, Kiyak, and Ozturk, 2010) and by several previous studies (Lambeck et al, 2004;Mourtzas, 2012;Poulos, Ghionis, and Maroukian, 2009;Scicchitanoa et al, 2011). If we consider sea-level curve by Kayan (1999), the level of the Marmara Sea that rose to the present level at 6 ka (McHugh et al, 2008) during formation of beachrock was about 1.5 m lower than the present, which is supported by the overlapped curves for the Aegean Sea (Poulos, Ghionis, and Maroukian, 2009), showing an agreement in 2-m lowering of the sea level during that period (see also Kambouroglou et al, 1988;Lambeck, 1996;Van Andel, 1990;Vouvalidis, Syrides, and Albanakis, 2005).…”

Section: Sea-level Lowstand Confirmed By Beachrocksupporting

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Preliminary Assessment of Submerged Beachrock and Tsunamigenic Deposit, Hasır Island, Marmara Archipelago, Turkey

Ertek

Kılıç

Ergi̇nal

et al. 2015

Journal of Coastal Research

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Ertek, A.; Kılıç, E.;Erginal, A.E.; Ekinci, Y.L., and Demirci, A., 2015. Preliminary assessment of submerged beachrock and tsunamigenic deposit, Hasır Island, Marmara Archipelago, Turkey. Journal of Coastal Research, 31(2), 428-433. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.A preassessment of coexisted submerged beachrock and a fossil-laden near-shore deposit on the coast of Hasır Island, SW Marmara Sea, is presented based on depositional characteristics, two-dimensional electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) survey and accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon ages. ERT-derived geophysical images clearly showed the subsurface position and contact relationship of submerged beachrock under the studied beach. Textural features of beachrock are typical solely of marine-phreatic cementation, including consecutively developed cement fabrics, i.e. micrite coatings, radial aggregates consisting of scalenohedral high-Mg calcites, and reticulated needles of aragonite. The intertidal cementation of beachrock took place between 2940 and 2470 YBP when the level of the Marmara Sea was about 1.5 m lower than that of the present. Its purely submerged nature is likely concerned with rise in sea level in pursuit of the cementation period. Though dated between 2340 and 1590 YBP, the fossil-rich near-shore deposit behind the studied beach could be of a tsunamigenic origin based on its sequence characteristics typical of such a high-energy event.

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“…Causeway F also provides access to the important fish‐processing facilities on the Islet. The fact that these are rock‐cut tanks would seem to place them technologically with those at Matala in southern Crete (Mourtzas, : 2392ff), which belong to the 1st century AD and the period when Crete and Cyrenaica were conjoined as a Roman province. The presence of opus signinum in one of the tanks seems to signify a Roman date.…”

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The Harbour at Ptolemais: Hellenistic City of the Libyan Pentapolis

Yorke

Davidson

2017

International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

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This article describes fieldwork undertaken in 1972 at the harbour of the Hellenistic city of Ptolemais at Tolmeita in Cyrenaica, Libya. This survey has shown that the city possessed a sophisticated Hellenistic harbour installation, now submerged by some 2 m. It consisted of a small fishing harbour and a larger commercial harbour protected by extensive stone breakwaters built around two offshore islands. Between the harbours, remains were found under water of an extensive block‐built quay connected to one island, where there was a system of submerged rock‐cut tanks. These are interpreted as the foundations of a fish‐processing factory. Changes in sea‐level are also discussed.

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Fish tanks of eastern Crete (Greece) as indicators of the Roman sea level

Cited by 24 publications

References 41 publications

The environs of Elaia's ancient open harbour – a reconstruction based on microfaunal evidence

The environs of Elaia's ancient open harbour – a reconstruction based on microfaunal evidence

Preliminary Assessment of Submerged Beachrock and Tsunamigenic Deposit, Hasır Island, Marmara Archipelago, Turkey

The Harbour at Ptolemais: Hellenistic City of the Libyan Pentapolis

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