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Science 11 March 1977:
Vol. 195. no. 4282, pp. 941 - 947
DOI: 10.1126/science.195.4282.941
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Paleogeographic Reconstructions of Coastal Aegean Archaeological Sites

John C. Kraft 1, Stanley E. Aschenbrenner 2, and George Rapp Jr. 3

1 Chairperson and professor of geology and marine geology at the University of Delaware, Newark 19711
2 Assistant professor of anthropology and archaeology and dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Minnesota, Duluth 55812, Associated with the Archaeometry Laboratory of the University of Minnesota, Duluth
3 Professor of geology and archaeology and dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Minnesota, Duluth 55812, Associated with the Archaeometry Laboratory of the University of Minnesota, Duluth

Many studies have been made of ancient Greek topography, some of the more recent ones based on modern techniques. However, most still ignore the subsurface dimension of coastal and other environments and hence fail to fully explain coastal and alluvial-colluvial processes, rates of change of geomorphology, and the effects of coastal change on humans. In this article subsurface geological analyses have been used to elucidate paleogeographic coastal settings of major archaeological sites around the Aegean Sea. Similar approaches could be applied in the Middle and Far East and elsewhere in the Mediterranean.


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