Bioindicators and Ancient Harbour Geoarchaeology in the Mediterranean:Evidence from the Egyptian Coast

摘要

INTRODUCTION The analysis of harbourworks and the fixed and boring fauna attached to structures has long been recognized as a potential source of sealevel data. Such data, fundamental to understanding the vertical distribution of coastal remains, had traditionally derived uniquely from the geological and geomorphological record. Where precise vertical relationships can be established between archaeological structures and biological paleo-sea levels it has been possible to accurately reconstruct relative sea-level trends since antiquity at a number of Mediterranean sites (Steward and Morhange, 2009; Stiros and Pirazzoli, 2008; Laborel and LaborelDeguen, 1994).