study day : Man faced with natural risks in antiquity: fatalism, adaptation, resilience
MSH Bordeaux, December 16, 2022

“Geoarchaeology of port establishments facing natural risks”
Christophe Morhange, Aix-Marseille University-CEREGE, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes -PSL-AOROC, Research associate RIMS, University of Haifa, Israel, morhange[at]cerege.fr
Nick Marriner, University of Franche-Comté, CNRS Thema, UMR 6049, nick.marriner[at]univ-fcomte.fr

Keywords: Risk, geoarchaeology, ports, Danube, Italy

Since that. 4500 years ago, coastal societies built ports along the shores of the Mediterranean. This communication will attempt to reflect on the three main natural forcings at the origin of external vulnerability, which are energy (swell, storm, etc.), the relative mobility of sea level and the sediment budget at base level. We will illustrate this recent case study conference (Danube, Italy, etc.) and we will reflect on the capacities for adaptation (abandonment, running out of equipment, etc.). These questions of adaptation to “natural risks” echo the concerns of current societies faced with an unprecedented crisis, the Anthropocene, which highlights the external and internal vulnerability of coastlines.