Cécile Vittori

CNRS · DR07

Round-shaped sieve pores of Cyprideis torosa have negative correlation with salinity and are a useful proxy for reconstructing paleo-salinity trends, especially for oligohaline to mesohaline waters. However, given its time-consuming character, this method has only been used rarely. A protocol for the automatic detection of sieve pores from Backscat...

The double tombolo of Orbetello, in Italy, has formed during the Holocene around an ancient central tombolo. Earlier models consider that its sand barriers formed as sand spits that stretched from the mainland to a coastal island before enlarging seawards. This evolution, however, remains speculative. In order to test these models, we conducted the...

Geoarchaeology or archaeology geology 1 applies integrative concepts and methodologies from geosciences (e. g. geophysics, sedimentology, geomorphology, and pedology) to address archaeological questions. The objectives of geoarchaeological projects may include the reconstruction of an ancient landscape and / or environment, the dating of materials...

Sediments are a major source of (sub) surface data for a variety of environmental research endeavours, as well as mining and civil engineering applications. Asses the inorganic and organic composition of sediments is a key to study climate change, sea-level variations, sediment dynamics, and landscape evolution. Increasing reliance on such studies...

Sediment cores are a major source of sub-surface data for a variety of environmental research endeavors, as well as mining and civil engineering applications. In paleo-environmental studies, fluctuations in mineral abundances along sediment cores are used to study climate change, sea-level variations, sediment dynamics, and landscape evolution. Inc...

Today, coastal cities worldwide are facing major changes resulting from climate change and anthropogenic forcing, which requires adaptation and mitigation strategies to be established. In this context, sedimentological archives in many Mediterranean cities record a multi-millennial history of environmental dynamics and human adaptation, revealing a...

The study of Burano paleo-lagoon—Wetland of International Value, has allowed us to better define and extend the reconstruction of the Holocene paleoenvironmental evolution of the paleo-lagoons previously studied, located on the Tyrrhenian coast in central Italy. The investigated area is located in Southern Tuscany near the Burano Lake. The area was...

Les environnements lagunaires sont des milieux attractifs pour les sociétés humaines et leurs activités (pêcheries, salines, abris côtiers naturels ou ports, etc.) ainsi que des systèmes fortement impactés par les interventions anthropiques (entretien des graus, canalisations, bonifications, etc.) à des échelles de temps multi-centennales, voire mi...

Les lagunes sont des zones d'interface entre les systèmes hydrologiques océaniques et continentaux et des milieux privilégiés pour l'étude des événements géologiques associés à ces environnements. Les ostracodes, crustacés millimétriques possédant une coquille carbonatée bien préservée dans les archives sédimentaires, sont des bio-indicateurs très...

This volume has been produced with the aid of funding from the British School at Rome

During the 19th century, remains of an ancient harbour were found underwater at a depth of 5 to 6 meters in the eastern port of Alexandria. A research program was undertaken to determine when the harbour of Alexandria submerged underwater. Data were collected through underwater surveys by scuba diving and by campaigns of corings on land. Geomorphol...

We present here recent results of a geoarchaeological study on the Northern coast of Peru. Concerning the scientific context, excavation of new or already known archaeological sites in the Sechura Desert, since 2012, revealed the high potential of the area to reconstruct Human-Environment interactions during the last two millennia at least. The pre...

New detailed palynological and ostracodological analyses together with texture data from a sediment core drilled in Ostia Antica confirm the existence of the ancient Ostia harbour and its location by the Tiber River. Using the different proxies analysed in this work and chronologically framing the sediment record with three AMS radiocarbon dates, f...

A b s t r a c t The ancient lagoon of Ostia played a key role in the development of the cultures of central Italy and especially that of Rome. The evolution of its environmental history and its partial transformation into a saline body of water during Antiquity remain as poorly known to archaeologists and historians as to geologists and geographers...