Geoarchaeology of Ancient Aulis (Boeotia,Central Greece): human occupation and Holocene landscape changes |
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| Authors: | Matthieu Ghilardi,Maxime Colleu,Kosmas Pavlopoulos,Sylvian Fachard,David Psomiadis,Pierre Rochette,Franç ois Demory,Alex Knodell,Maria Triantaphyllou,Doriane Delanghe-Sabatier,Andrew Bicket,Jules Fleury |
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| Affiliation: | 1. CEREGE, UMR 7330, CNRS, Europôle de l''Arbois, BP 80, 13545 Aix-en-Provence, Cedex 04, France;2. University of Paris 1 Sorbonne, Histoire de l''Art et de l''Archéologie, 3 Rue Michelet, 75006 Paris, France;3. Harokopeio University of Athens, Department of Geography, Eleftherios Venizelou Street 70, 176-71 Kallithea, Athens, Greece;4. Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 3100 Whitehaven Street, Washington, DC 20008, USA;5. University of Aix-Marseille/AMU, France;6. Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University, Box 1837, 60 George Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA;g University of Athens, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, Department of Historical Geology – Paleontology, Panepistimiopolis 15784, Athens, Greece;h Wessex Archaeology, Coastal and Marine, 7/9 North Saint David Street, Edinburgh EH2 1AW, Scotland, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | This article presents the results of a coring operation which brought to light new evidence for the evolution of the coastal plain of Aulis (Boeotia, Central Greece) in the Holocene. Thanks to Homer, Aulis is best known as the gathering point of the Achaean fleet before it sailed to Troy and a sanctuary of the goddess Artemis. Ancient sources and archaeological evidence suggest the presence of an ancient marine bay, potentially used as a harbor. In the course of investigation, we drilled two cores, to a maximum depth of 4.20 m in the marshy lowlands and performed mollusc and micro-paleontological identifications, laser grain size analyses, and magnetic susceptibility measurements in order to reveal the facies evolution of the area. We obtained a chronostratigraphy sequence through a series of seven AMS 14C radiocarbon dates. Our study shows that the area was affected by a shallow marine incursion from the first half of the 6th millennium BC and gradually turned into a succession of shallow marine/lagoon environments from ca. 5000 cal. BC to the 2nd Century AD, and into a confined lagoon environment during the Roman and Byzantine periods. |
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| Keywords: | Paleoenvironmental reconstruction Borehole study Geoarchaeology Shoreline migration Recent Holocene Aulis Boeotia Euboean Gulf Greece Mycenaean period |
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