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Environmental impact on the development of Roman settlement on the eastern Adriatic region in the light of new geoarcheological data

Over the past few years, as part of a joint project between the Institute of Archeology in Zagreb and the Institute of Archeology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw and the Šibenik City Museum selected Roman sites on the North-Eastern Adriatic have been studied with the aim to recognize stratigraphy, spatial extent and possible impact of environmental changes on their development. Methods such as geophysics (magnetometry and ground – penetrating radar), air surveys with UAVs, digital terrain model analysis, geomorphological methods and selected laboratory analysis were implemented. Results of preliminary geoarcheological and paleoclimatological research carried out on the Island of Rab (Podšilo bay), at Plemići bay (Zadar region) and Danilo (ancient Rider near Šibenik) show evidence of abrupt environmental events mostly datable to late antiquity when the areas occupied by these sites were covered by soil-debris flow sediments. The examined profiles revealed at least three generations of slope sediments, formed as results of a dry climate interval, followed, after the 5th c. AD, by a wet phase when sediments were transported downslope and deposited on the Roman structures. Environmental conditions documented on these Roman sites seem to be supported by other paleoclimate evidence from the Adriatic region, such as lake sediments.

geoarchaeology ; Roman eastern Adriatic ; environment ; settlement

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