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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_1546
dc.contributor.author	Biagi Paolo
dc.contributor.author	Fantuzzi Tiziano
dc.contributor.author	Nisbet Renato
dc.title	Exploiting Mangroves and Rushing Back Home. Fifteen Years of Research Along the Northern Coast of the Arabian Sea, Pakistan
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The research carried out between 2000 and 2014 along the northern coast of the Arabian Sea in Lower Sindh and Las Bela (Balochistan, Pakistan) has shown that the two regions started to be settled during the last two centuries of the 8th millennium BP. The sites consist of shell middens, shell scatters and fishermen villages, many of which were sampled for conventional and AMS radiocarbon dating from mangrove and marine shells. So far 95 sites have been AMS (GrA-) or conventionally (GrN-) radiocarbon-dated. This paper describes the results obtained from three well-defined macro areas (Lake Siranda, the coastline between Cape Gadani and the Hab River mouth, and the Indus Delta) where the aforementioned research methodology has been applied. The results contribute to the interpretation of the archaeology of the coastal area of Pakistan and the Arabian Sea, the definition of the sea-level variations since the mid-Atlantic period, the presence/absence and exploitation of ancient mangroves, the dynamic of the Indus Delta advance, and the chronology of the early navigation along the northern coast of the Indian Ocean.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi e ricerche
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2017-11-08
dc.dateSubmitted	2017-09-14
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-204-8/exploiting-mangroves-and-rushing-back-home/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-189-8/SR-11-1
dc.identifier.issn	2610-993X
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9123
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-204-8
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-189-8
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Arabian Sea coast
dc.subject	Arabian Sea coast
dc.subject	Early navigation
dc.subject	Early navigation
dc.subject	Indus delta
dc.subject	Indus delta
dc.subject	Mangroves
dc.subject	Mangroves
dc.subject	Pakistan
dc.subject	Pakistan
dc.subject	Radiocarbon dating
dc.subject	Radiocarbon dating
dc.subject	Sea-level changes
dc.subject	Sea-level changes
dc.subject	Shell middens
dc.subject	Shell middens

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Exploiting Mangroves and Rushing Back Home

Fifteen Years of Research Along the Northern Coast of the Arabian Sea, Pakistan

Paolo Biagi Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

Renato Nisbet Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

Tiziano Fantuzzi Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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The research carried out between 2000 and 2014 along the northern coast of the Arabian Sea in Lower Sindh and Las Bela (Balochistan, Pakistan) has shown that the two regions started to be settled during the last two centuries of the 8th millennium BP. The sites consist of shell middens, shell scatters and fishermen villages, many of which were sampled for conventional and AMS radiocarbon dating from mangrove and marine shells. So far 95 sites have been AMS (GrA-) or conventionally (GrN-) radiocarbon-dated. This paper describes the results obtained from three well-defined macro areas (Lake Siranda, the coastline between Cape Gadani and the Hab River mouth, and the Indus Delta) where the aforementioned research methodology has been applied. The results contribute to the interpretation of the archaeology of the coastal area of Pakistan and the Arabian Sea, the definition of the sea-level variations since the mid-Atlantic period, the presence/absence and exploitation of ancient mangroves, the dynamic of the Indus Delta advance, and the chronology of the early navigation along the northern coast of the Indian Ocean.

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Nov. 8, 2017

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Sept. 14, 2017

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978-88-6969-204-8

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Keywords: Early navigation • Shell middens • Sea-level changes • Indus delta • Pakistan • Arabian Sea coast • Radiocarbon dating • Mangroves

permalink: http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-189-8/SR-11-1

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