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During the Miocene, the upwelling is assumed to be important in the formation of many Mediterranean phosphate deposits in carbonate platform successions. There are different types of upwelling mechanisms such as equatorial upwellings, ice-edge upwellings and coastal upwellings. The carbonate platforms are mainly affected by wind-driven coastal upwelling systems. During upwelling season, the seawater in coastal areas is strongly density stratified and the permanent pycnocline rises inshore forming an inclined frontal layer.

The late Miocene is a crucial interval for global climate evolution as well as for the regional geodynamic evolution of the Central Mediterranean area. It spans the transition from the warm Mid Miocene Climatic Optimum, associated with the major Monterey Carbon Isotope Excursion, to the cooler Pliocene, characterized by a bipolar glaciation. Within this climatic transition, during the early Tortonian, a positive carbon isotope excursion related to a global carbon cycle perturbation is recorded, named Carbon Maximum 7 (CM7).

This study aimed to describe the construction sector’s response to the 2007–2008 recession based on the spatial analysis of 10 building activity indicators over a 25-year period (1990–2014) in Athens, Greece. Expansion and recession cycles influenced the average values of four indicators (density of new buildings, average floors per new building, density of enlarged buildings and building permits per inhabitant) without altering their spatial pattern.

Urban expansion determines socioeconomic and environmental changes with unpredictable impacts on peri-urban land, especially in ecologically fragile areas. The present study assesses the impact of dense and, respectively, discontinuous urban expansion on high-quality land consumption in 76 metropolitan regions of Southern Europe. Land quality indicators and land-use maps were considered together with the aim to analyze urban growth and land take processes in Portugal, Spain, Southern France, Italy and Greece. Differences in the rate of selective land take (high- vs.

In this contribution we dismantle the perceived role of marine resources and plant foods in the
subsistence economy of Holocene foragers of the Central Mediterranean using a combination of dental
calculus and stable isotope analyses. The discovery of fish scales and flesh fragments, starch granules
and other plant and animal micro-debris in the dental calculus of a Mesolithic forager dated to the end
of the 8th millenium BC and buried in the Vlakno Cave on Dugi Otok Island in the Croatian Archipelago

The relation between connectivity and communication is analyzed in the frame of the Mediterranean Sea. It is argued that communication is mainly derived from directional relations.

The preface of the volume includes a short discussion of each paper and of each theme. Three geographical areas are discussed: Central Mediterranean; Crete and the Aegean; Cyprus and Levant. A further theme is the role of warriors and merchants in connectivity.

This volume has its origin in a similarly entitled session organised at the 24th Annual Meeting of the European
Association of Archaeologists in Barcelona in 2018. The specific aim of both the session and this volume was
to measure acceptance of, and resistance to, outside influences within Mediterranean coastal settlements
and their immediate hinterlands, with an open time range, but with a particular focus on the processes not
reflecting simple commercial routes, but taking place at an intercultural level, in situations of developed

At the start of the third millennium, the path towards gender equality more uncertain than ever. Changes in behaviours in the areas of private and public life reveal the permanence of a structural principle of masculine domination. While the behaviours and trajectories of men and women have relatively converged in recent years, they have not fundamentally challenged the social division of gender roles. To understand this evolution in gender relations, one has to examine the content and effects of the changes that have occurred, and assess their scope.