Palaeogeographical reconstruction of the battle terrain in Ancient Thermopylae, Greece

Geodinamica Acta

Volumn 23, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 241-253

  Vouvalidis, Konstantinos ^a   Syrides, George ^a   Pavlopoulos, Kosmas ^b   Pechlivanidou, Sofia ^a   Tsourlos, Panagiotis ^a   Papakonstantinou, Maria Fotini ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^c I Ephorate of Prehistorical and Classical Antiquities   (Greece)

Author keywords

Geoarchaeology; Greece; Holocene; Palaeoenvironment; Sea level; Sperchios River; Thermopylae

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MARSH; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TERRAIN;

CENTRAL GREECE; GREECE; SPERCHEIOS RIVER;

MALIA;

EID: 79951745330     PISSN: 09853111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3166/ga.23.241-253     Document Type: Conference Paper

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