Palaeogeography of Carthage (Tunisia): Coastal change during the first millennium bc

Gifford, John; Rapp, George; Vitali, Vanda

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“…Some investigations deal with the function and history of ancient harbour settlements in general: the harbours of Tyre, Lebanon (Marriner and Morhange, 2007;Marriner et al, 2008Marriner et al, , 2010Morhange et al, 2012), Carthage, Tunisia (Gifford et al, 1992), Pergamum (Elaia), Turkey Seeliger et al, 2013), Ephesus, Turkey (Brückner, 1997(Brückner, , 2005Stock et al, 2013), Corinth (Lechaion), Greece (Hadler et al, 2013), Marseille (Morhange et al, 2003), Rome, Italy , Ostia, Italy (Goiran et al, 2014) e to mention a few. Others describe special harbour or economy facilities like fish tanks and ship sheds in relation to the palaeo-sea level in detail.…”

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

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

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“…These three effects respectively can be associated with the granulometric variables representing the energy of the environment and with the ostracod and foraminifera biotic factors representing salinity and turbidity gradients. Therefore, including the group of samples characterized by sand particles (Figure 6b), which were excluded in the previous stage, there are six major and one minor sample groups (shown in Figure 7) that may be described as follows (details of the interpretations are presented in Gifford, Rapp and Vitali [1992]): GROUP I: characterized by phi (17)- (32), or medium silt through fine clay, and by ostracod associations (1) and (21, indicating restriction to lagoon conditions. [Interpretation: mid-to late first millennium Cothon fill (cultural/organic), fine-grained "clay plug" of Hurst and Stager (1978: 337).]…”

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A formalized approach to analysis of geoarchaeological sediment samples: The location of the early punic Harbor at Carthage, Tunisia

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This article concerns, first, the development of an approach to data analysis of sedimentological, micro‐ and macrofaunal, and artifactual data obtained from analysis of geoarchaeological sediment core samples and, second, an algorithmic ordering of resulting sediment groups to arrive at a definitive stratigraphic sequence. Correspondence analysis (CA) was the principal data analysis technique applied, and the algorithmic ordering is one developed for discrete sampling sequences such as core transects. From a methodological standpoint, this approach allows an assessment of the usefulness of different types of analytical information pertaining to a paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a coastal archaeological site. In terms of the geoarchaeological problem that initiated the study, the results permit a possible reconstruction of the location and nature of the first Punic port at Carthage, Tunisia.

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“…Although the artificial AHP is still progradational, the low energy conditions result in an anomalous fining‐upward sequence. Well‐documented case‐studies of AHP include Punic Carthage (Gifford, Rapp, & Vitali, ), Roman Caesarea (Reinhardt & Raban, ), Kition‐Bamboula (Morhange et al, ), Hellenistic Alexandria (Goiran, ), Greek‐Roman Marseilles (Morhange et al, ), Sidon (Morhange, Espic, Doumet‐Serhal, Bourcier, & Carbonel, ), Tyre (Marriner, Morhange, Boudagher‐Fadel, Bourcier, & Carbonel, ; Marriner, Morhange, Doumet‐Serhal, & Carbonel, ), and Greek‐Roman Neapolis (Cinque et al, ; Di Donato et al, ). A typical AHP vertical succession comprises four components (Marriner & Mohrange, ): (a) The transgressive contact or maximum flooding surface (MFS), generally dated to ca.…”

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Holocene paleogeographic evolution of an ancient port city of the central Mediterranean area: Natural and anthropogenic modifications from Salerno city, southern Italy

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A multidiplisciplinary study, including geomorphological, lithostratigraphical, geochronological, geochemical, and paleontological investigations, was carried out in the coastal area of Salerno city, southern Italy. The study aimed to outline the Late Glacial‐Holocene geoenvironmental evolution of Salerno's port area in response to both natural and anthropogenic factors. The geomorphological study included an examination of historic maps, which enabled a detailed reconstruction of the coastal landscape change during historic times. Lithostratigraphical analyses of three new boreholes, supported by radiocarbon and tephrochronological data, and of previously retrieved core‐successions and archaeological trenches, extends our reconstruction of the paleogeographical evolution of the Salerno coastal area back to the Late Pleistocene. Geochemical and paleontological analyses of samples from the newly acquired cores were combined with the lithofacies analyses of previously retrieved cores to detect ancient harbors in the area of the current port facilities of the city and surrounding urban areas. This work contributes to scientific debate about the specific sedimentary architectures and geochemical properties of the Salerno harbor environment and refines methodological approaches for characterizing and assessing the evolution and demise of ancient port facilities in Mediterranean coastal cities.

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Palaeogeography of Carthage (Tunisia): Coastal change during the first millennium bc

Cited by 15 publications

References 11 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

A formalized approach to analysis of geoarchaeological sediment samples: The location of the early punic Harbor at Carthage, Tunisia

Holocene paleogeographic evolution of an ancient port city of the central Mediterranean area: Natural and anthropogenic modifications from Salerno city, southern Italy

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