Refining Late-Holocene environmental changes of the Akko coastal plain and its impacts on the settlement and anchorage patterns of Tel Akko (Israel)
Giaime, Matthieu (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Artzy, Michal (University of Haifa. Department of Maritime Civilizations)
Jol, Harry M. (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Department of Geography & Anthropology)
Salmon, Yossi (University of Haifa. Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies. Hatter Laboratory)
López, Gloria I. (Colombian Geological Society)
Abu Hamid, Amani (Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Israel Antiquities Authority)

Fecha:	2022
Resumen:	Akko/Acre, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2001, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in the eastern Mediterranean. Tel Akko was a major maritime centre of the southern Levant from the Middle Bronze to the Late Persian period. The city was then moved 1500 m to the west on the Akko promontory where the 'Old City' of Saint-Jean d'Acre is located. The natural and anthropogenic evolution of Tel Akko area is reflected by persistent geographical and habitation pattern changes. We combine sedimentological and faunal analyses of radiocarbon dated cores as well as identification of ceramic sherds found in the cores with ground penetrating radar investigations to propose an up-to-date palaeogeographical reconstruction of landscape/environmental changes of the Akko coastal plain in order to understand the extent to which environmental pressures have played a role on the position of anchorage and habitation patterns. We highlight how the local population make use of the natural advantages of the area and adapted to environmental pressures. Following a constant sedimentary input and simultaneous coastal progradation of the Akko coastal plain the main anchorage areas where forced to move. While the 2nd Millennium BCE anchorage was on the southern area of the tell, the late-1st Millennium BCE (Phoenician-Persian) anchorage was relocated on the western area. Vicissitudes in settlement pattern noted in archaeological excavations and surveys on Tel Akko have, most likely, been the consequence of the changes in the position of the coastline.
Nota:	Altres ajuts: acords transformatius de la UAB
Nota:	Altres ajuts: United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (Project number: 2016080)
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Lengua:	Anglès
Documento:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Materia:	Ancient anchorages/harbours ; Tel Akko ; GPR ; Biostratigraphy ; Coastal changes ; Paleogeography
Publicado en:	Marine Geology, Vol. 447 (May 2022) , art. 106778, ISSN 0025-3227

Dades de recerca relacionades amb l'article: https://ddd.uab.cat/record/257530
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106778

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