Climate change is still a subject of debate for archaeologist-neolithicists. Its exact chronology... more Climate change is still a subject of debate for archaeologist-neolithicists. Its exact chronology, internal pattern, variations in space and time, and impacts on sites and ecosystems and on coastal dynamic and river systems have yet to be assessed. Only a strict comparative approach at high chronological resolution will allow us to make progress on the causality of the socio-environmental processes at work during Neolithisation. Post-depositional impacts on the Early Neolithic hidden reserve also remain underestimated, which has led to the perpetuation of terms such as “Macedonian desert” and “archaeological silence” in the literature on the Neolithic. Off-site geoarchaeological and paleoenvironmental approaches provide some answers to these questions and opens up new research perspectives.
Les modalités de la transmission de l’économie néolithique du Proche-Orient à l’Occident méditerr... more Les modalités de la transmission de l’économie néolithique du Proche-Orient à l’Occident méditerranéen ne sont pas encore clairement établies dans le détail. En évoquant les deux grandes artères de la propagation du Néolithique, l’une, maritime par la Méditerranée, l’autre, terrestre par le bassin du Danube, V. G. Childe s’en tenait à un scénario global très schématique (Childe, 1925). Plus tard, L. Bernabò Brea, adoptant cette thèse diffusionniste mais souhaitant approfondir les caractères de cette transmission, rapprocha diverses cultures à céramiques imprimées et considéra qu’elles avaient été les vecteurs du Néolithique, du Levant jusqu’à la péninsule Ibérique (Bernabò Brea, 1950). En les regroupant dans un même horizon, il en minimisait volontairement les différences alors que la variabilité morphologique et décorative de leurs productions est souvent bien affirmée (Guilaine, 1976). De plus les liens génétiques entre les groupes à poterie imprimée de la Cilicie au Liban et ceux...
A geomorphological survey immediately west of the Minoan town of Malia (Crete) shows that a tsuna... more A geomorphological survey immediately west of the Minoan town of Malia (Crete) shows that a tsunami resulting from the Bronze Age Santorini eruption reached the outskirts of the Palatial center. Sediment cores testify a unique erosional event during the Late Minoan period, followed locally by a high energy sand unit comprising marine fauna. This confirms that a tsunami impacted northern Crete and caused an inundation up to 400 m inland at Malia. We obtained a radiocarbon range of 1744–1544 BCE for the secure pre-tsunami context and an interval 1509–1430 BCE for the post-event layer. Examination of tsunami deposits was used to constrain run-up not exceeding 8 m asl. The results open the field for new research on the Bronze Age Santorini tsunami regarding both impact and consequences for the Minoan civilization.
We analysed the late-Holocene pedo-sedimentary archives of La Narse de la Sauvetat, a hydromorphi... more We analysed the late-Holocene pedo-sedimentary archives of La Narse de la Sauvetat, a hydromorphic depression in the southern Limagne plain (central France), where chronologically accurate studies are scarce. The multi-proxy geoarchaeological and palaeoenvironmental analysis of two cores from different areas of the basin was carried out through sedimentological, geochemical, micromorphological and malacological investigations. Integration of these datasets supported by a robust radiocarbon-based chronology allowed discussion of socio-environmental interactions and anthropogenic impacts from Late Neolithic to Early Middle Ages. Until the Middle Bronze Age, there was no clear evidence of anthropogenic impact on soils and hydro-sedimentary dynamics of the catchment, but two peaks of high alluvial activity probably related to the 4.2 and 3.5 kyr. BP climate events were first recorded in Limagne. Significant anthropogenic impacts started in the Late Bronze Age with increased erosion of t...
Small lakes with little catchment areas, and high resolution Holocene sediment infilling, offer t... more Small lakes with little catchment areas, and high resolution Holocene sediment infilling, offer the interest to record mainly local perturbation and to study the switch from climatic to anthropogenic forcing. Two cores were extracted from Lake Antre in the Jura ...
International audienceAbstract: In Arabia, the emergence of the first maritime societies of the e... more International audienceAbstract: In Arabia, the emergence of the first maritime societies of the early Holocene used to be a theme unexplored by archaeology. For the first time, a glimpse of these 9th and 8th millennium BCE communities living on the Omani shores of the Arabian Sea has recently been possible thanks to data from the Natif 2 cave. These hunter-gatherers were selectively foraging the shallow waters of the coast, where small pelagic fish (anchovies and sardines) are abundant and easily captured. Sharks, sometimes up to two metres long, were also taken. This scenario of fishing in shallow waters, clarified in the case of the 9th and 8th millennia BCE, appears to be unusual and original in Arabia. Around 6500 BCE, a major social and economic change occurred: the appearance of the first pastoral Neolithic societies. Arabia then developed an alternative subsistence model in comparison to those of the Levant and the Near East. On the coast, the most favourable areas saw the se...
Climate change is still a subject of debate for archaeologist-neolithicists. Its exact chronology... more Climate change is still a subject of debate for archaeologist-neolithicists. Its exact chronology, internal pattern, variations in space and time, and impacts on sites and ecosystems and on coastal dynamic and river systems have yet to be assessed. Only a strict comparative approach at high chronological resolution will allow us to make progress on the causality of the socio-environmental processes at work during Neolithisation. Post-depositional impacts on the Early Neolithic hidden reserve also remain underestimated, which has led to the perpetuation of terms such as “Macedonian desert” and “archaeological silence” in the literature on the Neolithic. Off-site geoarchaeological and paleoenvironmental approaches provide some answers to these questions and opens up new research perspectives.
Les modalités de la transmission de l’économie néolithique du Proche-Orient à l’Occident méditerr... more Les modalités de la transmission de l’économie néolithique du Proche-Orient à l’Occident méditerranéen ne sont pas encore clairement établies dans le détail. En évoquant les deux grandes artères de la propagation du Néolithique, l’une, maritime par la Méditerranée, l’autre, terrestre par le bassin du Danube, V. G. Childe s’en tenait à un scénario global très schématique (Childe, 1925). Plus tard, L. Bernabò Brea, adoptant cette thèse diffusionniste mais souhaitant approfondir les caractères de cette transmission, rapprocha diverses cultures à céramiques imprimées et considéra qu’elles avaient été les vecteurs du Néolithique, du Levant jusqu’à la péninsule Ibérique (Bernabò Brea, 1950). En les regroupant dans un même horizon, il en minimisait volontairement les différences alors que la variabilité morphologique et décorative de leurs productions est souvent bien affirmée (Guilaine, 1976). De plus les liens génétiques entre les groupes à poterie imprimée de la Cilicie au Liban et ceux...
A geomorphological survey immediately west of the Minoan town of Malia (Crete) shows that a tsuna... more A geomorphological survey immediately west of the Minoan town of Malia (Crete) shows that a tsunami resulting from the Bronze Age Santorini eruption reached the outskirts of the Palatial center. Sediment cores testify a unique erosional event during the Late Minoan period, followed locally by a high energy sand unit comprising marine fauna. This confirms that a tsunami impacted northern Crete and caused an inundation up to 400 m inland at Malia. We obtained a radiocarbon range of 1744–1544 BCE for the secure pre-tsunami context and an interval 1509–1430 BCE for the post-event layer. Examination of tsunami deposits was used to constrain run-up not exceeding 8 m asl. The results open the field for new research on the Bronze Age Santorini tsunami regarding both impact and consequences for the Minoan civilization.
We analysed the late-Holocene pedo-sedimentary archives of La Narse de la Sauvetat, a hydromorphi... more We analysed the late-Holocene pedo-sedimentary archives of La Narse de la Sauvetat, a hydromorphic depression in the southern Limagne plain (central France), where chronologically accurate studies are scarce. The multi-proxy geoarchaeological and palaeoenvironmental analysis of two cores from different areas of the basin was carried out through sedimentological, geochemical, micromorphological and malacological investigations. Integration of these datasets supported by a robust radiocarbon-based chronology allowed discussion of socio-environmental interactions and anthropogenic impacts from Late Neolithic to Early Middle Ages. Until the Middle Bronze Age, there was no clear evidence of anthropogenic impact on soils and hydro-sedimentary dynamics of the catchment, but two peaks of high alluvial activity probably related to the 4.2 and 3.5 kyr. BP climate events were first recorded in Limagne. Significant anthropogenic impacts started in the Late Bronze Age with increased erosion of t...
Small lakes with little catchment areas, and high resolution Holocene sediment infilling, offer t... more Small lakes with little catchment areas, and high resolution Holocene sediment infilling, offer the interest to record mainly local perturbation and to study the switch from climatic to anthropogenic forcing. Two cores were extracted from Lake Antre in the Jura ...
International audienceAbstract: In Arabia, the emergence of the first maritime societies of the e... more International audienceAbstract: In Arabia, the emergence of the first maritime societies of the early Holocene used to be a theme unexplored by archaeology. For the first time, a glimpse of these 9th and 8th millennium BCE communities living on the Omani shores of the Arabian Sea has recently been possible thanks to data from the Natif 2 cave. These hunter-gatherers were selectively foraging the shallow waters of the coast, where small pelagic fish (anchovies and sardines) are abundant and easily captured. Sharks, sometimes up to two metres long, were also taken. This scenario of fishing in shallow waters, clarified in the case of the 9th and 8th millennia BCE, appears to be unusual and original in Arabia. Around 6500 BCE, a major social and economic change occurred: the appearance of the first pastoral Neolithic societies. Arabia then developed an alternative subsistence model in comparison to those of the Levant and the Near East. On the coast, the most favourable areas saw the se...
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