Mid- to Late Holocene shoreline reconstruction and human occupation in Ancient Eretria (South Central Euboea, Greece)

Geomorphology

Volumn 208, Issue , 2014, Pages 225-237

  Ghilardi, Matthieu ^a   Psomiadis, David ^a,b   Pavlopoulos, Kosmas ^c   Çelka, Sylvie Müller ^d,e   Fachard, Sylvian ^d,f   Theurillat, Thierry ^d,g   Verdan, Samuel ^d,g   Knodell, Alex R ^f   Theodoropoulou, Tatiana ^h   Bicket, Andrew ⁱ   Bonneau, Amandine ^a   Delanghe Sabatier, Doriane ^a  

^a CEREGE   (France)

^b Imprint Analytics GmbH   (Austria)

^c HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^d Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece   (Greece)

^e University Lumière Lyon 2   (France)

^f BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^h American School of Classical Studies at Athens   (Greece)

ⁱ WESSEX ARCHAEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coastal stratigraphy; Eretria; Greece; Mid to Late Holocene; Shoreline reconstruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893870353     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.12.006     Document Type: Article

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