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Recent Holocene paleo-environmental evolution and coastline changes of Kition, Larnaca, Cyprus, Mediterranean Sea

2000; Elsevier BV; Volume: 170; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0025-3227(00)00075-x

1872-6151

C. Morhange, J.P. Goiran, Michel Bourcier, Pierre Carbonel, Joël Le Campion, J. M. Rouchy, Marguerite Yon,

Archaeology and Historical Studies

Sedimentological, paleontological analysis and 14C dating of 17 cores obtained in the vicinity of the Phoenician military harbor (VIII–IV BC) of Kition Bamboula (Cyprus) provide new paleo-environmental information for the reconstruction of shoreline changes for Kition and Larnaca Bay over the last 4000 years. We propose that a communication existed between the inner harbor of Bamboula (presently 400 m inland) and the northern district of Lichines, which was a marine embayment. Our core data led us to revisit the previous hypothesis of a direct east–west channel between the harbor and the open sea (Nicolaou, K., 1976. The historical topography of Kition. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology, Göteborg, vol. 153, pp. 1–373; Gifford, J.A., 1978. Paleogeography of archaelogical sites of the Larnaca lowlands, southeastern Cyprus. PhD Thesis, University of Minnesota, pp. 1–192). We propose instead that a spit of coarse material isolated the lagoon from the open sea from 2600 to 1600 years BP.