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Abstract:

Although there is rich evidence for human occupation of Paros’ coastline, there is a lack of data regarding the evolution of the island’s coastal palaeoenvironments. Paros Island is part of the Cyclades Islands complex, in the central Aegean Sea. It is the third largest island of the Cyclades. The Island is of great geoarchaeological significance, with the earliest evidence of occupation dating back around the 5th millennium BC, while the nearby island of Saliagos has yielded a Neolithic settlement. The studied site, Livadia, is located in the northwestern part of Paros Island, near the modern capital, Paroikia.
For the purposes of this work, a multiproxy analysis was undertaken, which included sedimentological and biostratigraphic analyses of Late Holocene coastal deposits from lagoonal environment, aiming to reconstruct the evolution of coastal landscapes in Paroikia Bay (Paros Island, Greece). In order provide insights into the coastal evolution and the RSL changes of this sector of the Aegean, the dated samples of this study were compared with already published archaeological data, geomorphological sea level indicators and with the RSL curve derived from the glacio-hydro-isostatic model for the region.