Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MedCoRes (Mediterranean Coastal Resources: benefits and constraints for Prehistoric hunters-gatherers)
Reporting period: 2017-01-01 to 2018-12-31
Nine to eight thousand years ago, after the massive melting of ice sheet following the last glaciation, the global sea-level rose of almost 100 meters’ height, flooding the ancient coastal plains. People living at that time, the last hunter-gatherers, experienced rates of sea level rise and has to adapt to dramatic transformations of their environments, of similar or higher amplitude than the ones modelled for future. Studying past coastal adaptations can provide clues to understand human resilience to climate and environmental changes.
The Project MedCoRes “Mediterranean Coastal Resources: benefits and constraints for Prehistoric hunters-gatherers” proposed to investigate how Mediterranean coastal ecosystems and climatic changes have affected settlement and subsistence patterns during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition. Specifically, MedCoRes aimed to reconstruct the evolution of coastal landscapes in the close vicinity of well-known Mesolithic-Neolithic settlement area through the multi-proxy analysis of sediment cores of Pego-Oliva lagoon (Western Mediterranean). The objectives were the reconstruction of the past environmental changes in a well-constrain chronology and the comparison of the inferred environmental dynamics with archaeological datasets from the study area.
References:
-BRISSET E., BURJACHS F., BALLESTEROS NAVARRO B. J., FERNÁNDEZ-LÓPEZ de PABLO J., 2018a. Socio-ecological adaptation to Early-Holocene sea-level rise in the western Mediterranean. Global and Planetary Changes, 169, 156-167.
-BRISSET E., FERNÁNDEZ-LÓPEZ de PABLO J., BURJACHS F., 2018b. Reconstruction and impact of seascape evolution on human communities during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in the Mediterranean Iberia. 24th meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Barcelona, Spain.
-BRISSET E., FERNÁNDEZ-LÓPEZ de PABLO J., BURJACHS F., 2018c. The coastal palaeoenvironmental evolution of Pego-Oliva during the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition (Western Mediterranean): A contribution to the “Maritime Pioneer Colonization Model”. 24th meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. Barcelona, Spain.
-BRISSET E., 2018. Mediterranean Coastal Resources: benefits and constraints for Prehistoric hunters-gatherers”, final results of the MedCoRes project (MSCA-IF-2015, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships no. 704822). IPHES’s poster exhibition (12/2018-01/2019). Tarragona, Spain.
-FERNÁNDEZ-LÓPEZ de PABLO J., BRISSET E., POLO A., RABUÑAL J.R. GÓMEZ-PUCHE M., BURJACHS F., 2018. Early Holocene socio-ecological dynamics in the central Mediterranean region of Iberia. XVIIIe world UISPP Congress. Paris, France.
-BRISSET E., BURJACHS F., FERNÁNDEZ-LÓPEZ de PABLO J., 2017. First results of the MedCoRes project and research perspectives (Mediterranean Coastal Resources: benefit and constraint for Prehistoric hunter-gatherer). Workshop “Between sea and ocean: archaeology and coastal landscapes”. Empúries, Spain.