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DOI	10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106503
	Human adaptation to changing coastal landscapes in the Eastern Adriatic: Evidence from Vela Spila cave; Croatia
	Dean S.; Pappalardo M.; Boschian G.; Spada G.; Forenbaher S.; Juračić M.; Felja I.; Radić D.; Miracle P.T.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0277-3791
卷号	244
英文摘要	In this paper new palaeogeographic and archaeological data from the prehistoric cave Vela Spila on the island of Korčula in Croatia are combined with new realizations of two glacial isostatic adjustment models in order to present relative sea-level change scenarios confronting the inhabitants of the cave at different time slices and to show how they experienced and adapted to sea-level and climate change from the Late Pleistocene through the Holocene. Our results show that from the Late Upper Palaeolithic until the Mesolithic, humans in the study area would have experienced tens of metres of sea-level rise, at rates in some cases up to 12 mm per year, and, owing to the relatively flat morphology of the now submerged plains, hundreds of meters of horizontal coastline change in the plains to the north and south of the island. This evidence supports the hypothesis that the rapid loss of these plains likely contributed to the human abandonment of the cave after the Palaeolithic for about five thousand years, followed by significant changes in lifestyle and diet in the Mesolithic. Our results have important implications for the study of how past human groups, especially in vulnerable coastal areas, were affected by sea level, climate, and other environmental changes. Vela Spila represents a case study of how changing environment and rising seas can force significant alterations in human societies, even when there is no risk of inundation to settlement sites. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Bathymetry; Central Adriatic coast; Croatia; Environmental change; Human settlement patterns; Late Pleistocene-Holocene; Prehistoric Archaeology; Sea-level change
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Caves; Climate models; Glacial geology; Sea level; Changing environment; Coastal landscapes; Coastline changes; Environmental change; Glacial isostatic adjustment models; Late Pleistocene; Relative sea-level changes; Risk of inundation; Climate change; adaptation; archaeology; cave; climate change; coastal zone; glacioisostasy; Holocene; landscape structure; Mesolithic; paleoenvironment; paleogeography; Paleolithic; Pleistocene; prehistoric; sea level change; Croatia; Korcula; Ula
来源期刊	Quaternary Science Reviews
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/151353
作者单位	Department of Earth Sciences, University of Pisa, Italy; Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Italy; Dipartimento di Scienze Pure e Applicate, Università di Urbino ‘Carlo Bo’, Urbino, Italy; Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb, Croatia; Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Croatia; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Dept. of Geology, Croatia; Centar za kulturu, Vela Luka, Croatia; Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Dean S.,Pappalardo M.,Boschian G.,et al. Human adaptation to changing coastal landscapes in the Eastern Adriatic: Evidence from Vela Spila cave; Croatia[J],2020,244.
APA	Dean S..,Pappalardo M..,Boschian G..,Spada G..,Forenbaher S..,...&Miracle P.T..(2020).Human adaptation to changing coastal landscapes in the Eastern Adriatic: Evidence from Vela Spila cave; Croatia.Quaternary Science Reviews,244.
MLA	Dean S.,et al."Human adaptation to changing coastal landscapes in the Eastern Adriatic: Evidence from Vela Spila cave; Croatia".Quaternary Science Reviews 244(2020).