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Geography, Environment and Populations of the Glacial Adriatic

At the time of the Last Glacial Maximum (c. 20.000-16.000 bc), the Adriatic Sea extended over less than half of its current area. The northern part of the Adriatic Basin was a vast, open plain traversed by rivers, supporting large herds of gregarious herbivores. Climatic changes which marked the end of Pleistocene radically changed geography and environment of the region. As climate became warmer and global ocean levels rose, the Adriatic plain was submerged by marine transgression. Human populations were forced to leave the plain, to adapt to a rapidly changing and shrinking subsistance base, and exchange the subsistance strategies of plains dwellers for a set of very different highland adaptations in the hills and mountains surrounding the flooded Adriatic Basin.

anthropology; archaeology; Pleistocene; Holocene; Adriatic; environmental change

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