Ricerc@Sapienza

Multiproxy analysis composed of biostratigraphy and pollen analysis allowed reconstructing the palaeoecolo-gical and palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Tirso river coastal plain in Sardinia (NW Mediterranean) in thelast 6 millennia. We demonstrated that interplay between littoral and ?uvial processes have signi?cantly con-trolled the environmental evolution of the area and have played a key role in the pattern of historical andprehistorical settlements of this wide portion of western Sardinian coastline. At the end of Neolithic period (ca.6.0 to 5.5 cal.

A multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental investigation was conducted to reconstruct the Holocene history of coastal
landscape change in the lower Posada coastal plain of eastern Sardinia. In the Mediterranean region, coastal
modifications during the Holocene have been driven by a complex interplay between climate, geomorphological
processes and human activity. In this paper, millennial-scale human-sea level-environment interactions are investigated
near Posada, one of the largest coastal plains in eastern Sardinia. Biostratigraphic and palynological