Ostracodological studies in archaeological settings: a review

Mazzini, Ilaria; Goiran, J.P.; Carbonel, Pierre

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2014.11.012

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“…Both analyses can be applied in all environmental contexts where a water body existed. In particular, ostracodological analyses are often used in continental and marginal marine settings where other microfossils, like foraminifera, are absent or limited to few taxa because of ecological thresholds (Mazzini et al, 2015). Palynology and ostracodology give different indications: ostracods define the characteristics of the water bodies, whereas pollen describes the plant landscape.…”

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Palynology and ostracodology at the Roman port of ancient Ostia (Rome, Italy)

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New detailed palynological and ostracodological analyses together with texture data from a sediment core drilled in Ostia Antica confirm the existence of the ancient Ostia harbour and its location by the Tiber River. Using the different proxies analysed in this work and chronologically framing the sediment record with three AMS radiocarbon dates, four phases have been singled out: pre-harbour, harbour bay under fluvial influence, more protected harbour basin and post-harbour phase. Ostracodology is used to reconstruct the marine versus freshwater influence in the basin. Palynology is used to reconstruct the plant landscape and the surrounding environment. Phases with low pollen concentration and expansions of NPPs suggest soil erosion and are alternated with quieter ones, where human impact was very clear. Deciduous oaks typical of coastal plain forests are the main taxon during the harbour phases. The occurrence of riparian trees increases in periods with low pollen concentration, high NPPs and very high pine percentages. These should be the periods in which important sediment inputs inside the harbour basin arrived and could be the expression of intense flooding phases. The comparison between the ostracod assemblages recovered in the two cores and has led to speculate a complex harbour structure. A separation could explain the micropalaeontological differences between the cores. Thus, we suggest that a pier must have been built in order to protect the inner harbour from the marine influence and to unload the goods transported by the big ships.

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“…Meyrick published by Buckland in 1978 (Griffiths & Evans, 1992). Since then, the number of studies has increased considerably over the decades (Figure 3), and non‐marine ostracods were also noticed outside of ostracodology as proxies in archaeology (Branch et al, 2014; Mazzini et al, 2015; Palacios‐Fest, 2018). The main fields covered remained constant for many years: reconstruction of climate and aquatic habitats, water availability and salinity, water levels, anthropogenic impacts like habitat disturbance, eutrophication and other pollution or erosion due to agriculture and the provenance of materials.…”

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Nonmarine Ostracoda as proxies in (geo‐)archaeology — A review

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Ostracods as bioindicators are extremely useful for reconstructing palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate and can also indicate the provenance of sediments and materials, for example, in studies on ancient commercial networks. Ostracods are small crustaceans that live in almost all aquatic habitats, both natural and man‐made. Due to their calcitic carapace, they have high fossilization potential, and their use in geoarchaeology has been steadily increasing during the last decades. Their small size needs mean that only small volumes of sediment samples are needed, and species‐specific ecological tolerances and preferences allow detailed palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Typical methods of their application are palaeoecological analyses of associations based on ecological information and taphonomy, morphometric variability and stable isotope and chemistry analyses of their shells. The present paper aims to present an overview of applications of non‐marine ostracods in (geo‐)archaeological research, recommending sampling and analytical techniques for addressing archaeological research questions on palaeoclimate, habitat and landscape changes, water availability and quality, land use and other anthropogenic impacts, the provenance of materials and commercial networks to promote the application of Ostracoda in geoarchaeology/environmental archaeology.

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“…B: Brunhes chron; M: Matuyama chron. crustaceans (0.4 to 2.0 mm on average) a routinely employed tool in paleoenvironmental reconstructions from continental to marine settings (e.g., Bonaduce et al, 1975;Henderson, 1990;Montenegro and Pugliese, 1996;Faranda et al, 2007;Pascual et al, 2008;Marriner and Morhange, 2007;Bini et al, 2012;Marco Barba et al, 2013a, 2013bGrossi et al, 2015;Martinez Garcia et al, 2015;Mazzini et al, 2015Mazzini et al, , 2017Pint et al, 2015). Recent studies have also documented the os tracod capability to track high frequency and high energy depositional events (paleofloods) in the marine realm (Angue Minto'o et al, 2015;Barbieri and Vaiani, 2018;Fanget et al, 2016).…”

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Dynamics of benthic marine communities across the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary in the Mediterranean region (Valle di Manche, Southern Italy): Biotic and stratigraphic implications

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Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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The Valle di Manche (VdM) section (Calabria, Southern Italy) offers the opportunity to investigate the ostracod turnover along a continuous shelf succession straddling the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary, and compare it against other paleoenvironmental (i.e., mollusks) and paleoclimatic (Uvigerina peregrina δ 18 O) records. Highresolution (ca. 1 sample/m) ostracod fauna quantitative data, coupled with gradient analysis (Detrended Correspondence Analysis and non-Metric Multi-Dimensional Scaling), document a strong relationship between changes in faunal composition and lithofacies vertical stacking patterns. The comparison between the molluskand ostracod-derived ordination data demonstrates that the meio-and macro-faunal turnover is guided by a common complex gradient: bathymetry. The integrated ostracod-mollusk gradient analysis also provides a trend in water depths along the section, highlighting to what extent such multivariate approach can improve the paleoenvironmental and sequence stratigraphic interpretation of ancient shallow marine successions. When plotted stratigraphically, ordination major axis sample scores reveal two increasing-decreasing patterns in water depth that fit well with the T-R cycles previously identified. Paleobathymetric estimates combined with the vertical distribution of key ostracod groups (i.e., epiphytic taxa on sandy substrates vs. deep-sea mud related taxa) allow refining depositional trends, stratal stacking patterns and position of previously not well resolved sequence stratigraphic surfaces within each T-R cycle (e.g., Transgressive Surface-TS). Indeed, two rapid in-creases in water depth values mark the TSs that separate shallowing-upward, progradational (RST) from dee-pening upward, retrogradational (TST) stratal stacking patterns of shelf deposits. The TSs, which underline fine-grained successions dominated by deep-sea mud-lover taxa, are invariably constrained to the inception of in-terglacials Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 21 and 19, identified within the VdM section by benthic foraminifera δ 18 O values. Within both the VdM T-R cycles, the deepest conditions (ca. 140 m of water depth) are invariably identified within the Neopycnodonte unit, slightly above the lightest δ 18 O intervals. The overlying decreasing bathymetric trend, coupled with shifts in ostracod ecological groups, allows to identify in the bryozoans li-thofacies the stillstand+falling of the relative sea-level, also tracked by a progressively heavier δ 18 O record. More stable paleobathymetric conditions (around 40-45 m of water depth) characterize the overlying silt-sand deposits dominated by epiphytic species and showing the heaviest δ 18 O values.

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Ostracodological studies in archaeological settings: a review

Cited by 10 publications

References 39 publications

Palynology and ostracodology at the Roman port of ancient Ostia (Rome, Italy)

Palynology and ostracodology at the Roman port of ancient Ostia (Rome, Italy)

Nonmarine Ostracoda as proxies in (geo‐)archaeology — A review

Dynamics of benthic marine communities across the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary in the Mediterranean region (Valle di Manche, Southern Italy): Biotic and stratigraphic implications

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