@article {1177,
	title = {Palaeoenvironments and site formation processes at the Neolithic lakeside settlement of Dispilio, Kastoria, Northern Greece},
	journal = {Geoarchaeology},
	volume = {26},
	year = {2011},
	note = {Cited By (since 1996):6Export Date: 22 October 2014},
	month = {2011},
	pages = {83 - 117},
	abstract = {<p>Dispilio is a lakeside settlement by the Orestias Lake, Kastoria, northern Greece. The site was\&nbsp;inhabited from the Middle Neolithic to the Chalcolithic, with some surface evidence of Bronze\&nbsp;Age occupation. Microfacies analysis of the sediments, supported by a suite of environmental\&nbsp;indices, has provided detailed paleoenvironmental data and elucidated the main processes\&nbsp;involved in the formation of the site and its history of occupation. The settlement was established\&nbsp;on the lakeshore, on a shallow sand ridge and a shore marsh. Initially, houses were built\&nbsp;on raised platforms above the water. After a major conflagration, a range of depositional\&nbsp;microenvironments were established that caused local changes in the sedimentation rate.\&nbsp;Therefore, some areas quickly emerged and became dry land, while some others continued to\&nbsp;be flooded as part of the transitional supra-littoral environment. On the dry land, houses were\&nbsp;built directly on the ground, whereas in the transitional areas houses continued to be built on\&nbsp;raised platforms. Thus, gradually, a mound was formed and further shaped by subsequent\&nbsp;lake-level fluctuations. One of the lake-level rises is tentatively related to the abandonment of\&nbsp;the mound in the Chalcolithic and the development of a hardpan on its surface. There is also\&nbsp;evidence of later occupation during the Bronze Age in the form of a few, mostly surface, archaeological\&nbsp;remains.</p>},
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	author = {Karkanas, P. and Pavlopoulos, K. and Kouli, K. and Ntinou, M. and Tsartsidou, G. and Facorellis, Y. and Tsourou, T.}
}
