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Submerged Lake Landscapes of the Eastern Adriatic Shelf

These are preliminary results of a multidisciplinary, effort to recover, for the first time, long paleoenvironmental, and paleoclimate records from existing coastal karst lakes and submerged karstic lakes of the eastern Adriatic shelf in Croatia. It is an attempt to reconstruct the specific karst lake landscapes and their surroundings in view of environmental and climate change and human migration from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) through the Holocene. The research is a part of the Lost Lake Landscapes of the Eastern Adriatic Shelf (LoLADRIA) project whuch will also provide long, high resolution, paleohydrological reconstructions from a region extremely sensitive to changes in effective moisture and atmospheric dynamics. The multiproxy-based approach provided new data which helped to identify and date the main climate events, to characterize the climate variability at century and millennium scale since the LGM, and the dynamics of sea level rise recorded in submerged karst depressions. An environmental context is presented linked to the possible human entrance to Europe along the eastern Adriatic shelf since this pathway is still widely unknown and the detailed framework of climatic and environmental conditions still requires extensive research. In combination with landscape reconstruction based on high resolution geophysical methods give the insight to the preserved changes in the landscapes at selected sites along the Eastern Adriatic and their habitability related to the Epigravettian/Mesolithic cultures that were present there. Submarine prehistoric sites in the Mediterranean show that the continental shelf was occupied by humans to a depth of at least -40m, and the lost (submarine) lakes and surrounding submerged landscapes of the eastern Adriatic have a potential for site discovery.

Holocene; submerged landscape; marine sediments; geophysics; sea level rise

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