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T1 Archaeological and Geophysical Evidence of a High-Energy Marine Event at the Phoenician Site of Cerro del Villar (Malaga, Spain).
A1 Álvarez-Martí-Aguilar, Manuel
A1 Suárez Padilla, José
A1 Aubet, M.ª Eugenia
A1 Machuca Prieto, Francisco
A1 Martín Casado, Juan Manuel
A1 Feist, Lisa
A1 Val-Peón, Cristina
A1 Reicherter, Klaus
K1 Maremotos - Málaga (Bahía) - Edad Antigua
K1 Málaga (Provincia) - Restos arqueológicos
K1 Geofísica en arqueología
AB The Mediterranean coast of Spain, much of which is built-up and densely populated, is today a tourist hot spot. Additionally, there are vital infrastructures, including airports, harbours and industrial facilities along its coastal motorways. In comparison with the western and southern Atlantic coastlines, the region is relatively protected from storms, while earthquake-related inundations, namely, tsunamis, are also rare. The very imprecise historical and sedimentary record of a tsunami in 1522 near Almeria bear this out. However, new evidence is provided here for the oldest extreme wave event (EWE) affecting human settlements on the Iberian Peninsula. The Phoenician site of Cerro del Villar, located near the Andalusian city of Malaga, in the estuary of the river Guadalhorce, suffered two episodes of destructive flooding at the beginning and at the end of the seventh century BC. In this paper, the initial interpretation of the former as a fluvial flood is recovered, while the latter is reinterpreted as an extreme wave event of a possible tsunami.
PB Springer
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/30780
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/30780
LA eng
NO Álvarez-Martí-Aguilar, M., Suárez-Padilla, J., Aubet, M.E., Machuca Prieto, F., Martín-Casado, J.M., Feist, L., Val-Peón, C., Reicherter, K. (2022): "Archaeological and Geophysical Evidence of a High-Energy Marine Event at the Phoenician Site of Cerro del Villar (Malaga, Spain)", in M. Álvarez-Martí-Aguilar, F. Machuca Prieto (eds.) Historical Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Archaeology in the Iberian Peninsula. Singapore: Springer, 179-201.
NO Project ‘The Tsunami in the Cultural Representations of the Ancient World: Gadir-Gades and the Gulf of Cádiz as a case study’ (HAR2015-66011-P, MINECO-FEDER).Project ‘Earthquakes and Tsunamis in the Iberian Peninsula: Social Responses in the longue durée’ (PGC2018-093752-B-I00, MCI/AEI/FEDER, UE).
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026