<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pavlopoulos, K.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Triantaphyllou, M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Karkanas, P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kouli, K.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Syrides, G.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vouvalidis, K.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Palyvos, N.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tsourou, T.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Paleoenvironmental evolution and prehistoric human environment, in the embayment of Palamari (Skyros Island, Greece) during Middle-Late Holocene</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Quaternary International</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-77949491061&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=a4eef212eac0132020534c2990e922c6</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">216</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">41 - 53</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Palamari Bay is located on the northeastern coast of Skyros Island (Sporades Islands, Aegean Sea). At the&amp;nbsp;northern edge of the bay a fortified prehistoric settlement is found, dated between 2800 and 1700 BC&amp;nbsp;(Early Bronze Age II–Middle Bronze Age I). Detailed geomorphological mapping of the coastal alluvial&amp;nbsp;plain and paleontological, micropaleontological, palynological, sedimentological and micromorphological&amp;nbsp;studies of the Holocene coastal deposits have been conducted in order to reconstruct the palaeoenvironment&amp;nbsp;and the landscape evolution of the broader area of Palamari Bay.&amp;nbsp;Three main sedimentary units were recognized (A, B and C, from oldest to youngest). The lowermost&amp;nbsp;sedimentary unit A, deposited between before 7500 and 3500 cal BP, consists of sediment deposited&amp;nbsp;from high to moderate energy fresh water flows with some suspended load fallout in established water&amp;nbsp;bodies. The microfauna indicates a shallow fresh water environment. However, a tendency to oligohaline&amp;nbsp;conditions was established gradually. During the same period, the Palamari area was characterized by&amp;nbsp;open mixed deciduous forests that gradually retreated as a possible consequence of the intensification of&amp;nbsp;anthropic activity, associated with the settlement of Palamari. Indications of cultivating and grazing&amp;nbsp;activities in the vicinity of the lagoon were identified, pointing to a strong human presence since the&amp;nbsp;Neolithic. Between about 6000 and 3500 cal BP, the embayment was a lagoon southeasterly connected to&amp;nbsp;the sea, therefore sheltered and protected from northeastern winds. The overlying unit B (ca. 3500–800 cal BP) is characterized by the dominance of brackish water microfauna, indicating a brackish&amp;nbsp;stagnant shallow water depositional environment, which was periodically supplied with fresh water&amp;nbsp;from the surrounding springs. As the result of the continuous sea-level rise during the Late Holocene,&amp;nbsp;part of the northern headland was submerged. The decline of the Palamari settlement at the time of the&amp;nbsp;establishment of Unit B might be related to the observed changes that rendered the embayment&amp;nbsp;a restricted body of water. The uppermost sedimentary unit C corresponds to a backshore environment&amp;nbsp;dominated by aeolian activity modified by fluvial processes.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1-2</style></issue><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cited By (since 1996):17Export Date: 22 October 2014</style></notes></record></records></xml>