In the north western Mediterranean, in the area between the Rhone River and the Northern Apennines, the last Mesolithic societies (Castelnovian) and the first Neolithic societies (Impressed Ware or Impressa) coexisted during the first half of the 6th millennium cal. BCE (Before Common Era). Linking the two settlement distribution patterns...
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2018 (v1)PublicationUploaded on: April 14, 2023
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March 14, 2014 (v1)Publication
This study investigates the impact of climate and sea level changes and the anthropogenic perturbations on the alluvial vegetation in the Mediterranean French coastal plains during the early to mid Holocene. Between 7000 and 3700 BCE, the combination of different type of regional proxy records reveal significant changes in the humid conditions...
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October 22, 2009 (v1)Conference paper
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March 3, 2014 (v1)Journal article
Between the metamorphic massifs of the Maures and the Esterel, the lower Argens valley is a silted Holocene ria. This alluvial plain and its margins are attractive areas for human societies since the Neolithic. Following the foundation of the Roman colony of Forum Iulii during the first century BC, a military and commercial harbour is built,...
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2019 (v1)Journal article
This paper describes long-term changes in human population andvegetation cover in southern France, using summed radiocarbon probabilitydistributions and site count data as population proxies and informationfrom fossil pollen cores as a proxy for past land cover. Southern France isparticularly well-suited to this type of study as a result of...
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2020 (v1)Book section
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