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- PublicationRestrictedMillstone coastal quarries of the Mediterranean: A new class of sea level indicator(2014)
; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;Lo Presti, V.; Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy ;Antonioli, F.; ENEA ;Auriemma, R.; Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Università del Salento, Italy ;Ronchitelli, A.; Università di Siena, Italy ;Scicchitano, G.; Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche ed Ambientali, Università di Catania, Italy ;Spampinato, C.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Catania, Catania, Italia ;Anzidei, M.; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione Roma2, Roma, Italia ;Agizza, S.; Via Riviera di Chiaia 215, 80123 Napoli, Italy ;Benini, A.; Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Archeologia e Storia delle Arti, Rende, CS, Italy ;Ferranti, A.; Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell’Ambiente e delle Risorse, Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy ;Gasparo Morticelli, G.; Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy ;Giarrusso, C.; Via Arborea 17, 07100 Sassari, Italy ;Mastronuzzi, G.; mDipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geoambientale, Università degli Studi ‘‘Aldo Moro’’, Bari, Italy ;Monaco, C.; Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche ed Ambientali, Università di Catania, Italy ;Porqueddu, A.; Via. E. Arborea, 07024, La Maddalena, Olbia-Tempio, Italy; ;; ; ;; ; ; ;; ; ; ; ; The coasts of Italy still preserve several remnants of coastal quarries built in antiquity, that now provide insights into the intervening sea-level changes occurred during the last millennia. In this paper, we show and discuss a new class of sea level indicator consisting of millstones carved along the rocky coast of southern Italy since 2500 BP, that are currently submerged. They were extracted from beachrocks, sandstones or similar sedimentary rocks, easier for carving by ancient carving tools. Our study focuses on 10 coastal sites located at Capo d’Orlando, Avola, and Letojanni, in Sicily; Soverato, Tropea, and Capo dell’Armi, in Calabria; Castellabate, Palinuro, and Scario, in Campania; and Polignano San Vito, in Apulia. Unfortunately, only limited archaeological information is available for these anthropic structures. Scario, one of these millstone quarries discussed here, has been dated through independent archaeological remains, allowing us to restrict the exploitation age to the end of XVII century. Present day elevations of these coastal sites were obtained through geo-archaeological surveys calibrated using the nearest tidal stations, together with geomorphological and tectonic interpretations. Data were compared against the latest sea level predictions based on glacio-hydro-isostatic models. Our results allow proposal of the age-range of these millstone quarries and to estimate the intervening relative sea level changes since the time when they were carved.327 84 - PublicationRestrictedEvidence of relative sea level rise along the coasts of central Apulia (Italy) during the late Holocene via maritime archaeological indicatorsWe investigated archaeological sites located along the coasts of central Apulia (Italy) to estimate the relative sea level changes which have occurred in this region since the Bronze Age, and test the most recent model of predicted sea level for this region. Surveys focused on six sites located on both the Adriatic and Ionian coasts of Apulia at the feet of the carbonatic Murge plateau, a tectonically stable zone as of the last 125 ka. The sites present the remains of ancient settlements, ranging from the Bronze Age (circa II millennium BC), to the Messapian and Magna Grecia Age (c. 2.5 ka BP), the Roman (c. 2 ka BP) and Middle Ages (c. 1 ka BP). The archaeological sea level markers investigated in these sites provided new insight into the history of the relative sea level changes which have occurred in this region during the last c. 3.3 ka BP. Data from 17 archaeological settlements from the above-mentioned sites, placed above or below the present sea level, were analyzed. The intervening relative sea level changes successive to their construction were estimated via the submergence of the functional elevations of significant architectural features related to the mean sea level at the time during which the settlements were functioning. The r.s.l. changes were estimated using detailed topographic surveys, tide analyses and/or hydrodynamic equations. Although not all archaeological markers allowed univocal interpretations, r.s.l. rise at about 2.25 ± 0.20 m as of the Bronze Age, and at least 0.90 ± 0.20 m in the last 2.0/1.5 ka was estimated. A comparison between the elevation of the marker and two different predicted sea level models seems to confirm a tectonic stability of the investigated region in the last c. 3.3 ka BP.
258 4 - PublicationRestrictedMillstone quarries along the Mediterranean coast: Chronology, morphological variability and relationships with past sea levels(2017)
; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;The coast of the Mediterranean provide several remnants of ancient coastal quarries, which are now useful to study sea level change occurring during the last millennia. Millstones quarries were exploited with same quarrying techniques from rocks like beachrocks, sandstones or similar lithologies, were shaped to be suitable to grind olives, seeds and wheat, to produce oil and flour, or to break apart soft rocks. In this study we integrated historical sources, aerial photography, field surveys and palaeo sea-level modelling to investigate a number of millstones quarries with the aim to asses the intervening sea level change that occurred since the quarries were abandoned. We investigated on their chronology, spatial distribution and spatial relationship to the sea-level. Our results indicate that most of these were carved close to sea level between 1.45 ka and 0.25 ka cal BP, but mainly around 0.45 cal ka BP. Despite the uncertainties associated with the chronology in, we found good agreement between their lowest elevation (between 0.33 m and −0.06 m) and the paleo sea-levels, as predicted by the GIA models.290 6