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Geoarchaeological evidence of landscape transformations at the Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement of Nea Raedestos in the Anthemous River valley, central Macedonia, Greece

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2018

Jakub Niebieszczański ,
Iwona Hildebrandt-Radke ,
Konstantinos Vouvalidis ,
Georgios Syrides ,
Stylianos Andreou ,
Janusz Czebreszuk ,
Maria Pappa ,
Panagiotis Tsourlos ,
Monika Karpińska-Kołaczek  and
Monika Rzodkiewicz
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Jakub Niebieszczański*
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Historical Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Umultowska Str. 89D, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
Iwona Hildebrandt-Radke
Affiliation:
Department of Quaternary Geology and Palaeogeography, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Krygowskiego Str. 10, 61-680 Poznań, Poland
Konstantinos Vouvalidis
Affiliation:
Department of Physical & Environmental Geography, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece
Georgios Syrides
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece
Stylianos Andreou
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, School of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece
Janusz Czebreszuk
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Historical Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Umultowska Str. 89D, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
Maria Pappa
Affiliation:
Ephorate of Antiquities of Thessaloniki Region, Megalou Alexandrou Extension Str., 546 46 Thessaloniki, Greece
Panagiotis Tsourlos
Affiliation:
Department of Geophysics, School of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece
Monika Karpińska-Kołaczek
Affiliation:
Department of Biogeography and Palaeoecology, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Krygowskiego Str. 10, 61-680 Poznań, Poland Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Monitoring, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Krygowskiego Str. 10, 61-680 Poznań, Poland Centre for the Study of Demographic and Economic Structures in Preindustrial Central and Eastern Europe, University of Białystok, Plac Uniwersytecki 1, 15-420 Białystok, Poland
Monika Rzodkiewicz
Affiliation:
Department of Quaternary Geology and Palaeogeography, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Krygowskiego Str. 10, 61-680 Poznań, Poland
Piotr Kołaczek
Affiliation:
Department of Biogeography and Palaeoecology, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Krygowskiego Str. 10, 61-680 Poznań, Poland
*
*Corresponding author at: Laboratory of Archaeology of the Bronze Age Mediterranean, Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Historical Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Umultowska Str. 89D, 61-614 Poznań, Poland. E-mail address: jakubniebieszczanski@gmail.com (J. Niebieszczański).
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Abstract

A paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the landscape of Nea Raedestos Toumba in the Anthemous River valley in central Macedonia, Greece is undertaken using multidisciplinary geoarchaeological methods. The archaeological site is a settlement mound (tell or toumba) that dates to the Neolithic period and the Bronze Age. The tell’s location on the alluvial plain prompted a multidisciplinary investigation to reconstruct the influence of landscape changes on prehistoric settlements in the valley with an emphasis on alluvial sequences. An electrical resistivity tomography survey and three cores were drilled to study the sedimentary environments in and around the archaeological site. Sedimentologic and palynological analysis combined with accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon dating show that the oldest habitation layers at the site, from the Middle and Late Neolithic, were located next to a small, periodically drying water body surrounded by ruderal vegetation. Diatom analysis suggests that this water body was supplied by saline/brackish groundwater. The water body was open until the Early Bronze Age, when it was filled and buried by floodplain sediments. This flooding phase at Nea Raedestos likely occurred at the same time as an increase in fluvial aggradation in the neighboring Thessaloniki Plain, which is dated to the beginning of the third millennium BC.

Keywords

GeoarchaeologyLandscape changesAnthemous River valleyNorthern GreeceArchaeologyFluvial archaeologyAlluvial valleys
Type
Thematic Set: Fluvial Archives Group (FLAG) Poland
Information
Quaternary Research , Volume 91 , Issue 2 , March 2019 , pp. 600 - 619
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Copyright © University of Washington. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2018 

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