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reconstruction of the holocene coastline of mesopotamia
Author(s) -
Cooke Gary A.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
geoarchaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1520-6548
pISSN - 0883-6353
DOI - 10.1002/gea.3340020102
Subject(s) - marine transgression , human settlement , holocene , shore , alluvial plain , geology , delta , period (music) , mesopotamia , glacial period , coastal plain , oceanography , geography , physical geography , archaeology , geomorphology , paleontology , physics , structural basin , aerospace engineering , acoustics , engineering
At the end of the last glacial period, a major marine transgression inundated the head of the Persian Gulf to a position as much as 400 km inland from the present shoreline. After 6000 B.P., the Shatt al‐Arab delta prograded southward to its current position. These events had a profound impact on our knowledge of early human occupation and the development of civilization in the Tigris‐Euphrates valley. The former settlements of people living on the pre‐6000 B.P. coastal plains are today either under the waters of the Gulf or under sediments of the lower alluvial plain.