Twigs date the second Holocene transgression in southwestern Norway
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6447989 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Svein Vatsvåg Nielsen (0000-0002-2243-9159), Martin Hinz (0000-0002-9904-6548) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 613-629 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Radiocarbon (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-8222 • E-ISSN: 1945-5755 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/rdc.2025.14 |
| OpenAlex | W4409684618 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
Marine flooding events occasionally interrupted the everyday lives of prehistoric coastal populations. Identification of such events are important for studies of past population dynamics and adaptive strategies. However, short-term events are rarely identified in the geological record, which puts a severe limit on our archaeological interpretive framework. This paper explores the temporality of the second Holocene transgression in southwestern Norway (ca. 3500 BCE) and works under the hypothesis that it was not a slow geological process but rather one or multiple short-term events. A Bayesian approach is used to analyze multidisciplinary time series data collected from sites located in Norway and Shetland. The resulting chronological model supports the hypothesis that the second Holocene transgression in southwestern Norway was a rapid flooding event that occurred in the period 3445–3395 BCE (Early Neolithic II). It is also suggested, but not argued conclusively, that this flooding event could correspond to the Garth tsunami, a paleotsunami named after Garth Loch in Shetland. Considering the potential impact of such a flooding event on the everyday lives of local foragers who dwelled in southwestern Norway, it is anticipated that this study could form a starting point for future case studies
Absolute dating · Archaeology · Geography · Holocene · Marine transgression · Quaternary · Radiocarbon dating · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology · Paleontology
Wave? What wave? Testing for impact of the Garth tsunami (3500 BCE) on Neolithic coastal settlements in Western Norway
The impact of population dynamics on social complexity in Neolithic Orkney
Impulses of agro-pastoralism in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC on the south-western coastal rim of Norway
Prehistoric Coastal Mass Burials
Living through changing climates
Radiocarbon Calibration and Analysis of Stratigraphy
Bayesian Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates
Landscapes for Neolithic People in Mainland, Orkney
Lithic stories of broken relations after the Storegga tsunami in Mesolithic western Norway
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