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Late Quaternary sea-level changes and early human societies in the central and eastern Mediterranean Basin: An interdisciplinary review

This article reviews and discusses key data, literature, debates and discussions focussed on relative sea-level change since the Last Interglacial (approximately last ~132, 000 years) in the Mediterranean Basin. Special reference is given to the geomorphological (physical and environmental) and archaeological (human and cultural) aspects of central and eastern Mediterranean coasts which have changed significantly and repeatedly during at least the last few glacial cycles. This article represents a collaborative synthesis of data, some of which have been collected and analysed by the authors and some of which refers to the existing literature, scholarship that have been reviewed critically or introduced to demonstrate key sites, data, concepts or debates in the various disciplines. We present an interdisciplinary contribution by the MEDFLOOD (MEDiterranean sea-level change and projection for future FLOODing) community in an effort to demonstrate the interwoven, evidence- based and up-to-date scientific and archaeological narrative of sea-level changes and its impacts on past peoples.

Sea-level change, Pleistocene, Holocene, Mediterranean, Archaeology

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