Archaeological and Geophysical Evidence of a High-Energy Marine Event at the Phoenician Site of Cerro del Villar (Malaga, Spain)
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Álvarez Martí-Aguilar, Manuel [1] ; Suárez Padilla, José [1] ; Aubet, Mª Eugenia [2] ; Machuca Prieto, Francisco [1] ; Martín Casado, Juan Manuel [1] ; Feist, Lisa [3] ; Val Peón, Cristina [3] ; Reicherter, Klaus [3]
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[1] Universidad de Málaga
Universidad de Málaga
Málaga, España
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[2] Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, España
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[3] Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University
Städteregion Aachen, Alemania
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- Localización: Historical Earthquakes,Tsunamis and Archaeology in the Iberian Peninsula / coord. por Manuel Álvarez Martí-Aguilar, Francisco Machuca Prieto, 2022, ISBN 978-981-19-1978-7, págs. 179-201
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
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 imprecisehistorical 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. ThePhoenician 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.