Research article · 2020

Redating the formation of Lake Bafa, western Turkey: Integrative geoarchaeological methods and new environmental and dating evidence

Sena Akçer-Ön, Alan M. Greaves, Sturt W. Manning, Zeki Bora Ön, M. Namık Çağatay, Mehmet Sakınç, Aslı Oflaz, Cemal Tunoğlu, Rana Salihoğlu · Geoarchaeology 35(5), 659–677 (2020)

What this study does

The study combines sedimentology, palaeoenvironmental proxies, chronology and archaeological evidence to reconsider the timing of shoreline and basin changes around the Büyük Menderes delta and Lake Bafa.

Main finding

The combined evidence supports an earlier development of Lake Bafa than some previous archaeological reconstructions, illustrating the value of integrating geological and archaeological chronologies.

When this paper may be useful

• Geoarchaeological shoreline reconstruction
• Lake Bafa and Büyük Menderes delta evolution
• Combining archaeological and environmental dating evidence
• Holocene coastal change in western Anatolia

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