Tjeerd H Van Andel
Biographic Data
| ID | 699149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tjeerd H Van Andel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tjeerd H |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Andel |
| SIGNATURE | VAN ANDEL T H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 366 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Coastal Migrants in a Changing World? — An Essay on The Mesolithic in The Eastern Mediterranean
TJEERD H. VAN ANDEL, Coastal Migrants in a Changing World? — An Essay on the Mesolithic in the Eastern Mediterranean, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך ל"ה (תשס"ו / 2005), pp. 381-397
Karstic Wetland Dwellers of Middle Palaeolithic Epirus, Greece
The coastal zone of western Greece from the Ambracian Gulf to the Albanian border is the, foreland of the great Pindos range. It is a complicated, actively rising landscape of limestone mountains and closed intra-montane basins. Archaeologically, this karst landscape is distinguished by numerous Middle Palaeolithic open-air sites embedded in the red sediments of the basins. In contrast,further inland, the river valleys of the western flank of the…
The ownership of time: Approved 14C calibration or freedom of choice
Rapid extension of 14C-age dating into the Last Glaciation due to a rising interest in high-resolution climate events is demanding ever greater emphasis on accurate stratigraphic placement of samples relative to events or objects to be dated. This shifts the primary responsibility for date quality from the producer of dates, who is responsible for their precision, to geological and archaeological consumers, who are responsible for their stratigra…
The Early Stone Age of the Nomos of Preveza: Landscape and Settlement
Curtis N. Runnels, Tjeerd H. van Andel, The Early Stone Age of the Nomos of Preveza: Landscape and Settlement, Hesperia Supplements, Vol. 32, Landscape Archaeology in Southern Epirus, Greece 1 (2003), pp. 47-134
Extent and Dynamics of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet during Oxygen Isotope Stage 3 (65,000–25,000 yr B.P.)
The climate of the middle Weichselian Glaciation, Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 3 (OIS-3), a relatively mild period compared to the glacial maxima of OIS-4 and OIS-2, consisted of long warm interstades punctuated by brief cold excursions that grew colder and more frequent with time. The OIS-4 ice sheet is generally thought to have persisted throughout OIS-3, but evidence from dated OIS-3 interstadial deposits suggests that it was swiftly reduced to…
The Climate and Landscape of the Middle Part of the Weichselian Glaciation in Europe: The Stage 3 Project
Oxygen isotope stage 3 (OIS 3) was a mild interval between the two cold maxima of the last (Weichselian) glaciation marked by climate changes oscillating on a 100–1000 yr time scale between near-interglacial and peak-glacial conditions. During OIS 3, modern humans entered Europe, and somewhat later their Neanderthal predecessors became extinct. Our understanding of this momentous event depends on an answer to the question, Did the unstable enviro…
A Luminescence Dating Study of Open-Air Palaeolithic Sites in Western Epirus, Greece
An Exceptionally Thick Middle Pleistocene Tephra Layer from Epirus, Greece
A newly recognized 2-m-thick trachytic volcanic ash deposit from northwestern Greece is dated at 374,000 ± 7000 yr and correlated with the Middle Pleistocene volcanic activity of central Italy. The deposit represents ash fallout from one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Europe of the past 400,000 yr and should provide an important stratigraphic marker within the poorly dated Middle Pleistocene deposits of Italy and Greece.
Paleosols, red sediments, and the Old Stone Age in Greece
As elsewhere in the Mediterranean, the Quaternary of Greece stands out by the red color of many of its paleosols and sediments. Both are important, but, in a geoarchaeological context, the distinction between palaeosols and sediments is crucial because they carry different information. Paleosols mature with age, forming a chronosequence that can be studied with simple field methods. The youngest paleosols, some 2000 years old, are at the base of …
Middle and Upper Palaeolithic environments and the calibration of14C dates beyond 10,000 BP
Advances in our understanding of the Quaternary history of the earth's magnetic field provide the means to correct the radiocarbon time-scale for long-term (millennia) deviations from the calendrical one beyond the upper limit of the tree-ring-based calibration. The conversion is essential when Middle and Upper Palaeolithic archaeological sites are to be placed within the context of the complex climatic history of the last glacial interval and fo…
A Greek Countryside: The Southern Argolid from Prehistory to the Present Day
The earliest farmers in Europe
Some 9000 years ago the first European farmers established themselves in the empty plains of Thessaly, the only region in Greece that provided a reasonably assured harvest and was large enough for significant population growth. They flourished there and after more than a thousand years spread to the Balkans and beyond. The recognition that their success may have depended on the natural irrigation of river and lake floodplains leads us to a modifi…
A Handaxe from Kokkinopilos, Epirus, and its Implications for the Paleolithic of Greece
A complete, well-preserved Micoquian-type handaxe was discovered in 1991 at Kokkinopilos, Greece, stratified 16 m below a paleosol of Last Glacial age containing abundant Middle Paleolithic artifacts. The handaxe was embedded in "redbeds" (very fine-grained) well-indurated red sediments, and is the same age as the redbeds. The lithology of the redbeds suggests slow sedimentation on the floor of a doline (sinkhole) with a variable but often high g…
The Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Thessaly, Greece
A combined geological/stratigraphical and archaeological survey was carried out in June, 1991, in the Larisa basin of Thessaly, Greece, as the last in a series of surveys begun in 1987. An age range of 60–30 thousand years (kyr) was also established for in situ Middle Paleolithic sites exposed by the down cutting of the Peneios River valley between the Kalamakiou gorge and Larisa. The environmental settings for these sites were reconstructed by m…
Quaternary Transgressive/Regressive Cycles in the Gulf of Argos, Greece
Borings in the Argive Plain reveal cycles of marine incursions, each ending with a Mediterranean soil profile and followed by a prograded fluvial and coastal wedge. The sediment prism of the Gulf of Argos shelf, visible in high-resolution seismic reflection profiles, also consists of transgressive and regressive depositional sequences identified by onlap, downlap, and truncation of deposits. At least four major reflectors, recognizable by their h…
Land Use and Soil Erosion in Prehistoric and Historical Greece
Soil erosion resulting from human exploitation of the land has attracted much public and scientific interest. Being regarded mainly as a modern phenomenon, however, its prehistoric and historical extent remain largely unexplored. Here we summarize three regional studies of Holocene erosion and alluviation in Greece, together with information derived from the literature, and conclude that most recorded Holocene soil erosion events are spatially an…
Addendum to 'Late Quaternary sea-level changes and archaeology
Van Andel adds an important postscript to his paper in the December ANTIQUITY
Late Pleistocene Sea Levels and the Human Exploitation of the Shore and Shelf of Southern South Africa
Some of the earliest records of Homo sapiens sapiens come from the coastal zone of South Africa, and it is there also that the first evidence for the human exploitation of marine resources has been found. This region is bordered by a wide and mainly level continental shelf which, at the lowest sea levels of the last glacial period, formed a large coastal plain, an environment not now common in the coastal zone. During most of the last 125,000 yea…
Late Quaternary sea-level changes and archaeology
The oxygen-isotope curve, derived from the record of organisms stratified in the deep ocean ooze, has replaced the old pattern of four glaciations with a more complex record of cool and warm events. Since people live by their local sea-level, rather than an abstract world average, that global pattern is itself mediated by other geological forces, on several scales, before it directs the possibilities of human settlement. Here the effect of those …
Trade and the Origins of Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean
Trade and social stratification appeared more or less simultaneously in different parts of the Eastern Mediterranean prior to the advent of agriculture-based village economies. This formulation places trade at the head of a list of factors that favored the adoption and dispersal of agriculture, and contrasts with previous views that regarded the development of complex societies as the consequence of the chance innovation or evolution of agricultu…
Beyond the Acropolis: A Rural Greek Past
An essay on the 'emergence of civilization' in the Aegean world
The fascicules of the final report on Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, the key Aegean sequence for the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, are starting to appear, along with the publications of the Stanford survey of the region. Here, those reports prompt a wider review of existing explanations for the emergence of Greek social complexity, and the identifying of a new and major impetus as the basis for a revised model
The Evolution of Settlement in the Southern Argolid, Greece: An Economic Explanation
Curtis N. Runnels, Tjeerd H. van Andel, The Evolution of Settlement in the Southern Argolid, Greece: An Economic Explanation, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 56, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1987), pp. 303-334
Five Thousands Years of Land Use and Abuse in the Southern Argolid, Greece
Tjeerd H. van Andel, Curtis N. Runnels, Kevin O. Pope, Five Thousands Years of Land Use and Abuse in the Southern Argolid, Greece, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 103-128
New Views on an Old Planet: Continental Drift and the History of the Earth
Late Pleistocene Sea Levels and the Human Exploitation of the Shore and Shelf of Southern South Africa
Some of the earliest records of Homo sapiens sapiens come from the coastal zone of South Africa, and it is there also that the first evidence for the human exploitation of marine resources has been found. This region is bordered by a wide and mainly level continental shelf which, at the lowest sea levels of the last glacial period, formed a large coastal plain, an environment not now common in the coastal zone. During most of the last 125,000 yea…
The earliest farmers in Europe
Some 9000 years ago the first European farmers established themselves in the empty plains of Thessaly, the only region in Greece that provided a reasonably assured harvest and was large enough for significant population growth. They flourished there and after more than a thousand years spread to the Balkans and beyond. The recognition that their success may have depended on the natural irrigation of river and lake floodplains leads us to a modifi…
Late quaternary alluviation and soil formation in the southern Argolid: Its history, causes and archaeological implications
Five Thousands Years of Land Use and Abuse in the Southern Argolid, Greece
Tjeerd H. van Andel, Curtis N. Runnels, Kevin O. Pope, Five Thousands Years of Land Use and Abuse in the Southern Argolid, Greece, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 103-128
The Evolution of Settlement in the Southern Argolid, Greece: An Economic Explanation
Curtis N. Runnels, Tjeerd H. van Andel, The Evolution of Settlement in the Southern Argolid, Greece: An Economic Explanation, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 56, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1987), pp. 303-334
Karstic Wetland Dwellers of Middle Palaeolithic Epirus, Greece
The coastal zone of western Greece from the Ambracian Gulf to the Albanian border is the, foreland of the great Pindos range. It is a complicated, actively rising landscape of limestone mountains and closed intra-montane basins. Archaeologically, this karst landscape is distinguished by numerous Middle Palaeolithic open-air sites embedded in the red sediments of the basins. In contrast,further inland, the river valleys of the western flank of the…
Land Use and Soil Erosion in Prehistoric and Historical Greece
Soil erosion resulting from human exploitation of the land has attracted much public and scientific interest. Being regarded mainly as a modern phenomenon, however, its prehistoric and historical extent remain largely unexplored. Here we summarize three regional studies of Holocene erosion and alluviation in Greece, together with information derived from the literature, and conclude that most recorded Holocene soil erosion events are spatially an…
Middle and Upper Palaeolithic environments and the calibration of14C dates beyond 10,000 BP
Advances in our understanding of the Quaternary history of the earth's magnetic field provide the means to correct the radiocarbon time-scale for long-term (millennia) deviations from the calendrical one beyond the upper limit of the tree-ring-based calibration. The conversion is essential when Middle and Upper Palaeolithic archaeological sites are to be placed within the context of the complex climatic history of the last glacial interval and fo…
Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic Coastlines of Greece and the Aegean
Reconstructions of the late Quaternary paleogeography of Greece and the Aegean show that at 18,000 years B.P. the northern Aegean and northern Adriatic formed large coastal plains traversed by many rivers. Broad plains also existed off the coast of Elis and the present Gulf of Korinth, and along the Anatolian coast. Many islands, such as Kerkira, Euboea, and the northern Sporadhes, were connected with the mainland, and most of the Cycladic island…
Trade and the Origins of Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean
Trade and social stratification appeared more or less simultaneously in different parts of the Eastern Mediterranean prior to the advent of agriculture-based village economies. This formulation places trade at the head of a list of factors that favored the adoption and dispersal of agriculture, and contrasts with previous views that regarded the development of complex societies as the consequence of the chance innovation or evolution of agricultu…
An essay on the 'emergence of civilization' in the Aegean world
The fascicules of the final report on Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, the key Aegean sequence for the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, are starting to appear, along with the publications of the Stanford survey of the region. Here, those reports prompt a wider review of existing explanations for the emergence of Greek social complexity, and the identifying of a new and major impetus as the basis for a revised model
Late Quaternary sea-level changes and archaeology
The oxygen-isotope curve, derived from the record of organisms stratified in the deep ocean ooze, has replaced the old pattern of four glaciations with a more complex record of cool and warm events. Since people live by their local sea-level, rather than an abstract world average, that global pattern is itself mediated by other geological forces, on several scales, before it directs the possibilities of human settlement. Here the effect of those …
The ownership of time: Approved 14C calibration or freedom of choice
Rapid extension of 14C-age dating into the Last Glaciation due to a rising interest in high-resolution climate events is demanding ever greater emphasis on accurate stratigraphic placement of samples relative to events or objects to be dated. This shifts the primary responsibility for date quality from the producer of dates, who is responsible for their precision, to geological and archaeological consumers, who are responsible for their stratigra…
Coastal Paleogeography of the Central and Western Mediterranean during the Last 125,000 Years and Its Archaeological Implications
In this paper we present paleogeographic maps of the central and western Mediterranean for 18,000 B.P. at the height of the last glacial maximum, and for 9,000 B.P. near the end of the rapid phase of the postglacial rise of the sea. Sea-level data for the past 125,000 years indicate that, in addition, the 18,000 B.P. map reasonably represents preceding cold stadials, while the 9,000 B.P. map depicts the configuration of intervening warm periods. …
The Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Thessaly, Greece
A combined geological/stratigraphical and archaeological survey was carried out in June, 1991, in the Larisa basin of Thessaly, Greece, as the last in a series of surveys begun in 1987. An age range of 60–30 thousand years (kyr) was also established for in situ Middle Paleolithic sites exposed by the down cutting of the Peneios River valley between the Kalamakiou gorge and Larisa. The environmental settings for these sites were reconstructed by m…
Prehistoric and historic shorelines of the Southern Argolid Peninsula: A subhottom profiler study
International Journal of Nautical ArchaeologyVolume 12, Issue 4 p. 303-324 Prehistoric and historic shorelines of the Southern Argolid Peninsula: A subhottom profiler study Tjeerd H. Van Andel, Tjeerd H. Van Andel Geology Department, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305, USASearch for more papers by this authorNikolaos Lianos, Nikolaos Lianos Ephoria Enalion Archaiotiton, Athens, GreeceSearch for more papers by this author Tjeerd H. Van Andel, …
A Handaxe from Kokkinopilos, Epirus, and its Implications for the Paleolithic of Greece
A complete, well-preserved Micoquian-type handaxe was discovered in 1991 at Kokkinopilos, Greece, stratified 16 m below a paleosol of Last Glacial age containing abundant Middle Paleolithic artifacts. The handaxe was embedded in "redbeds" (very fine-grained) well-indurated red sediments, and is the same age as the redbeds. The lithology of the redbeds suggests slow sedimentation on the floor of a doline (sinkhole) with a variable but often high g…
Late Quaternary History of the Coastal Zone near Franchthi Cave, Southern Argolid, Greece
A shallow marine seismic reflection study has clarified the evolution of the landscape around Franchthi Cave in SE Greece during the post-glacial sea-level rise. In late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic times the site, near a sizable river, overlooked a wide coastal plain. Around 9,000 B.P. the shoreline began to approach the present coast forming a possibly enclosed lagoon and later a bay. About 6,000 B.P. flow in the river decreased. An extensive Ne…
A Luminescence Dating Study of Open-Air Palaeolithic Sites in Western Epirus, Greece
Coastal Migrants in a Changing World? — An Essay on The Mesolithic in The Eastern Mediterranean
TJEERD H. VAN ANDEL, Coastal Migrants in a Changing World? — An Essay on the Mesolithic in the Eastern Mediterranean, Mitekufat Haeven: Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society / מתקופת האבן, כרך ל"ה (תשס"ו / 2005), pp. 381-397
Late Quaternary History of the Coastal Zone near Franchthi Cave, Southern Argolid, Greece
A shallow marine seismic reflection study has clarified the evolution of the landscape around Franchthi Cave in SE Greece during the post-glacial sea-level rise. In late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic times the site, near a sizable river, overlooked a wide coastal plain. Around 9,000 B.P. the shoreline began to approach the present coast forming a possibly enclosed lagoon and later a bay. About 6,000 B.P. flow in the river decreased. An extensive Ne…
Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic Coastlines of Greece and the Aegean
Reconstructions of the late Quaternary paleogeography of Greece and the Aegean show that at 18,000 years B.P. the northern Aegean and northern Adriatic formed large coastal plains traversed by many rivers. Broad plains also existed off the coast of Elis and the present Gulf of Korinth, and along the Anatolian coast. Many islands, such as Kerkira, Euboea, and the northern Sporadhes, were connected with the mainland, and most of the Cycladic island…
Prehistoric and historic shorelines of the Southern Argolid Peninsula: A subhottom profiler study
International Journal of Nautical ArchaeologyVolume 12, Issue 4 p. 303-324 Prehistoric and historic shorelines of the Southern Argolid Peninsula: A subhottom profiler study Tjeerd H. Van Andel, Tjeerd H. Van Andel Geology Department, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305, USASearch for more papers by this authorNikolaos Lianos, Nikolaos Lianos Ephoria Enalion Archaiotiton, Athens, GreeceSearch for more papers by this author Tjeerd H. Van Andel, …
High-Resolution Seismic Reflection Profiles for the Reconstruction of Postglacial Transgressive Shorelines: An example from Greece
In 1982 we carried out a shallow-penetration, high-resolution seismic profiling study on the shelf of the southern Argolid, Peloponnesos, Greece, to identify and map the shores of the late Pleistocene and Holocene, and to establish their coastal environments. Portable equipment and a local boat were used. The lowest glacial shore occurs at −115 to −118 m, within the range of global values. The subsequent rise across the distinct old land surface …
Late quaternary alluviation and soil formation in the southern Argolid: Its history, causes and archaeological implications
Coastal Paleogeography of the Central and Western Mediterranean during the Last 125,000 Years and Its Archaeological Implications
In this paper we present paleogeographic maps of the central and western Mediterranean for 18,000 B.P. at the height of the last glacial maximum, and for 9,000 B.P. near the end of the rapid phase of the postglacial rise of the sea. Sea-level data for the past 125,000 years indicate that, in addition, the 18,000 B.P. map reasonably represents preceding cold stadials, while the 9,000 B.P. map depicts the configuration of intervening warm periods. …
Five Thousands Years of Land Use and Abuse in the Southern Argolid, Greece
Tjeerd H. van Andel, Curtis N. Runnels, Kevin O. Pope, Five Thousands Years of Land Use and Abuse in the Southern Argolid, Greece, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 103-128
New Views on an Old Planet: Continental Drift and the History of the Earth
The Evolution of Settlement in the Southern Argolid, Greece: An Economic Explanation
Curtis N. Runnels, Tjeerd H. van Andel, The Evolution of Settlement in the Southern Argolid, Greece: An Economic Explanation, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 56, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1987), pp. 303-334
Trade and the Origins of Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean
Trade and social stratification appeared more or less simultaneously in different parts of the Eastern Mediterranean prior to the advent of agriculture-based village economies. This formulation places trade at the head of a list of factors that favored the adoption and dispersal of agriculture, and contrasts with previous views that regarded the development of complex societies as the consequence of the chance innovation or evolution of agricultu…
Beyond the Acropolis: A Rural Greek Past
An essay on the 'emergence of civilization' in the Aegean world
The fascicules of the final report on Franchthi Cave in the Argolid, the key Aegean sequence for the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, are starting to appear, along with the publications of the Stanford survey of the region. Here, those reports prompt a wider review of existing explanations for the emergence of Greek social complexity, and the identifying of a new and major impetus as the basis for a revised model
Late Pleistocene Sea Levels and the Human Exploitation of the Shore and Shelf of Southern South Africa
Some of the earliest records of Homo sapiens sapiens come from the coastal zone of South Africa, and it is there also that the first evidence for the human exploitation of marine resources has been found. This region is bordered by a wide and mainly level continental shelf which, at the lowest sea levels of the last glacial period, formed a large coastal plain, an environment not now common in the coastal zone. During most of the last 125,000 yea…
Late Quaternary sea-level changes and archaeology
The oxygen-isotope curve, derived from the record of organisms stratified in the deep ocean ooze, has replaced the old pattern of four glaciations with a more complex record of cool and warm events. Since people live by their local sea-level, rather than an abstract world average, that global pattern is itself mediated by other geological forces, on several scales, before it directs the possibilities of human settlement. Here the effect of those …
Quaternary Transgressive/Regressive Cycles in the Gulf of Argos, Greece
Borings in the Argive Plain reveal cycles of marine incursions, each ending with a Mediterranean soil profile and followed by a prograded fluvial and coastal wedge. The sediment prism of the Gulf of Argos shelf, visible in high-resolution seismic reflection profiles, also consists of transgressive and regressive depositional sequences identified by onlap, downlap, and truncation of deposits. At least four major reflectors, recognizable by their h…
Land Use and Soil Erosion in Prehistoric and Historical Greece
Soil erosion resulting from human exploitation of the land has attracted much public and scientific interest. Being regarded mainly as a modern phenomenon, however, its prehistoric and historical extent remain largely unexplored. Here we summarize three regional studies of Holocene erosion and alluviation in Greece, together with information derived from the literature, and conclude that most recorded Holocene soil erosion events are spatially an…
Addendum to 'Late Quaternary sea-level changes and archaeology
Van Andel adds an important postscript to his paper in the December ANTIQUITY
A Handaxe from Kokkinopilos, Epirus, and its Implications for the Paleolithic of Greece
A complete, well-preserved Micoquian-type handaxe was discovered in 1991 at Kokkinopilos, Greece, stratified 16 m below a paleosol of Last Glacial age containing abundant Middle Paleolithic artifacts. The handaxe was embedded in "redbeds" (very fine-grained) well-indurated red sediments, and is the same age as the redbeds. The lithology of the redbeds suggests slow sedimentation on the floor of a doline (sinkhole) with a variable but often high g…
The Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Thessaly, Greece
A combined geological/stratigraphical and archaeological survey was carried out in June, 1991, in the Larisa basin of Thessaly, Greece, as the last in a series of surveys begun in 1987. An age range of 60–30 thousand years (kyr) was also established for in situ Middle Paleolithic sites exposed by the down cutting of the Peneios River valley between the Kalamakiou gorge and Larisa. The environmental settings for these sites were reconstructed by m…
The earliest farmers in Europe
Some 9000 years ago the first European farmers established themselves in the empty plains of Thessaly, the only region in Greece that provided a reasonably assured harvest and was large enough for significant population growth. They flourished there and after more than a thousand years spread to the Balkans and beyond. The recognition that their success may have depended on the natural irrigation of river and lake floodplains leads us to a modifi…
A Greek Countryside: The Southern Argolid from Prehistory to the Present Day
An Exceptionally Thick Middle Pleistocene Tephra Layer from Epirus, Greece
A newly recognized 2-m-thick trachytic volcanic ash deposit from northwestern Greece is dated at 374,000 ± 7000 yr and correlated with the Middle Pleistocene volcanic activity of central Italy. The deposit represents ash fallout from one of the largest volcanic eruptions in Europe of the past 400,000 yr and should provide an important stratigraphic marker within the poorly dated Middle Pleistocene deposits of Italy and Greece.
Paleosols, red sediments, and the Old Stone Age in Greece
As elsewhere in the Mediterranean, the Quaternary of Greece stands out by the red color of many of its paleosols and sediments. Both are important, but, in a geoarchaeological context, the distinction between palaeosols and sediments is crucial because they carry different information. Paleosols mature with age, forming a chronosequence that can be studied with simple field methods. The youngest paleosols, some 2000 years old, are at the base of …
Middle and Upper Palaeolithic environments and the calibration of14C dates beyond 10,000 BP
Advances in our understanding of the Quaternary history of the earth's magnetic field provide the means to correct the radiocarbon time-scale for long-term (millennia) deviations from the calendrical one beyond the upper limit of the tree-ring-based calibration. The conversion is essential when Middle and Upper Palaeolithic archaeological sites are to be placed within the context of the complex climatic history of the last glacial interval and fo…
A Luminescence Dating Study of Open-Air Palaeolithic Sites in Western Epirus, Greece
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