Geoarchaeological Indicators for Sea Level Research and Paleogeographic Reconstruction

Dear Colleagues,

Archaeological sites located along the coastal area can provide significant information on relative sea-level change during the last millennia using man-made coastal structures whose successful functioning requires a precisely defined relationship to sea level at time of construction. Some of these structures offer relevant information useful to reconstruct ancient coastlines and paleogeographic scenarios. Although most of the recent researches focused on Mediterranean Sea, that constitutes a unique basin from an historical and archaeological point of view, as it has been a privileged way of communication for thousands of years for the people that dwelled on its shores, analyses of archaeological structures located in different basin could provide new insights on relative sea-level change during the last millennia. This special issue aims to highlight recent progress in coastal geo-archaeology with particular attention to: i) description of new sites especially outside Mediterranean basin, ii) new methodologies of data gathering and analyses, iii) improvements on methodological debate related to the possibility to use archaeological sites for the evaluation of sea-level change during the last millennia, iv) new survey technologies for the analyses of archaeological remains, v) remote sensing, GIS analyses and definition of DataBase of the most important sites.

Dr. Giovanni Scicchitano
Dr. Fabrizio Antonioli
Guest Editors

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