This article reviews key data and debates focused on relative sea-level changes since the
Last Interglacial (approximately the last 132,000 years) in the Mediterranean Basin, and …

Lechaion's inner harbour basin was constructed in the 7th-6th c. BCE and served as
Corinth's principal port for over a millennium. The harbour decline and abandonment in the …

Advances in submarine technologies and increased exploration of continental shelves are
revealing increasingly more submerged barriers that have drowned in response to early-to …

The reconstruction of Holocene relative sea levels has several implications, ranging from the
investigation of coastal vertical movements to the calibration of earth rheology models and …

2D and 3D high-resolution seismic investigations were performed on submerged coastal
archaeological sites at Iskele and near to Karantina Island in the Bay of Izmir in western …

An 8th century CE earthquake severely damaged inland cities across the southern-central
Levant, but reported evidence of this earthquake along the coastline is scarce. In Caesarea …

Rising post-glacial sea levels had a major influence on the prehistoric settlement of the
Aegean coastal zone. At Liman Tepe, an important Chalcolithic-Bronze Age coastal …

Abstract Liman Tepe-Clazomenae, located in the southern Bay of Izmir, Turkey, was an
important Early Bronze Age to Classical Period trading port and cultural centre in the eastern …

Throughout human history, communication and trade have been key to society. Because
maritime trade facilitated the rapid transportation of passengers and freight at relatively low …

The sedimentary record in large marine embayments holds important information on
Holocene environmental and sea-level changes. This paper investigates the evolution of a …