level
[A] - 16th century
present
day sealevel
level
[A] - 15th century AD
general
rise in price of salt, causes social political unrest [Kolner] broads,
meres, clairs and kogs flooded - peat salt production ceases. Holland weakening
sea defences
level
[A] - 14th century AD
Rising
sealevel - Prussia Livonia salt famine [ Tanner] salt prod. forbidden in
Holland [Dendermonde/Debbits] Chersonesus settlements decay [Mongait]
level
[B] - 11th century AD
Lower
sealevel - Doomesday Book 1200 salinae [Bridury] Walcheren island flourishing
[Bronsted]
level
[B] - 10th century AD
Haithabu
near Schleswig, flourishing [Koster] also Yarmouth [Clark][Ives] Lubec
[B]
- 9th century AD
Vikings
occupy Noirmoutier, Bourgneuf developed [Agate]
[B]
- 8th century AD
Camargue
in production. Crimea [Bronsted]- Ravenna, and Aquilea had become landlocked
due to receding level but Venice florishing [Pirenne] - Peat areas of Wadden
with their tidal flats trading intensively [Pirenne] salterns of Pyrenean
coast [Ellis] Pope owned salt pans in Ostia [Fea] previously flooded after
Trajan
[C]
- 5-7th century AD
Almost
no coastal salt production. Only upper peat bogs in Ireland, salty sands
in Isle of Man and oil shales [for boiling]in Dorset, Salamis still flooded
[Newman] Tyre separated from mainland, [St Jerome] - Maritime Greece population
dwindling [Nilsson]
[C]
- 2nd centuryAD
inland
Norfolk broads still in use [Clarke] Classis near Ravenna harbouring ships
up to reign of Gothic kings [Goetz]
[D]
- 1st century / 100 AD
Tiber
ports progessively built inland, by Claudius and Trajan. The Dead Sea becomes
a prime source for salt again. Trajan succeeds in rejuvenating the "Suez
canal" built originally by RamsesII [Muir]
70 BC Ash layer
[F]
* 700-100 BC
very
low sealevel- The catastrophic rise in ocean sealevel
between 100 BC to the 2 century AD [-1.5m to +1.8m] (much more pronounced
than in the 13th cn) Flooding at the Dead Sea caused a sudden increase
of the Dead Sea level of - 72 m (seventy two meters) [Cippora Klein-HUJ]
The ocean sea level left Greek, Phoenician, Roman ports inundated. Some
of these ports were probably built partially into the sea anyway with
no consideration of possible sealevel rise [viz.recent finds at Caesaria]
[G]
* 1000 BC
-Judean
kings, the sea level was well above today's levels although not well documented,
the Dead Sea was again a prime source for salt, because of flooding of
the sea shore salt pans
1250 BC Ash layer
[H]
* 1700-1250 BC
Maritime
Mycenaean civilisation flourishes.and Jericho civilisation declining.[Albright]
[I]
* 1700/ BC
Jordan
valley civilisation flourishes, [Albright] - Agean Minoan culture at a
low.
2350
BC Ash layer
[K]
* 2200 / 1800 BC
Aegean
Minoan coastal populations prospered. Desolation in the Jordan valley.
