dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Sterk, G. | |
dc.contributor.author | Bekkers, M.N. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-04-27T17:01:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-04-27 | |
dc.date.available | 2011-04-27T17:01:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/6927 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study was conducted within an archaeology project and was done to provide some insights to
the relation between artefact distribution/ origin and geomorphological development during the late
Pleistocene and Holocene. Geological, lithological and geomorphological research showed several
distinguishable landscape units. In the western part of the study area a swamp is present that used
to be a lake, which can be seen as a favorable location for ancient human settlement. Besides this
geomorphology focused research, also archaeological surveys have been done around this swamp
and at some main locations of interest north of the swamp (e.g. Kamaroti hill). This study concluded
that the artefact distribution along Kamaroti hill can be related with a former marine environment that
was implicated by lithological research. However, the headward erosion of the walls of the highly
abundant agricultural terraces in the study area caused exposure of artefacts through time. This is
one of the reasons for the archaeologically complexity of the scattering of artefact distribution. Thick
accumulations of terra rossa between a relative isolated region between the mountains in the western
part of the study area were related with ancient soil erosion on the mountain slopes and the subsequent
colluvial transport to these sediment catches. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.format.extent | 19484915 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.title | Geomorphological development of Zakynthos, Greece
Relating geomorphology and artefact distribution | |
dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | archaeology, Zakynthos, erosion, sedimentation, uplift, coastal terrace, corings, swamp, Holocene, lithology | |
dc.subject.courseuu | Physical Geography | |