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Subject:        Re: [MAPS-L] Mediterranean shoreline 2,000 years ago
Date:   Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:31:35 -0500
From:   Tom Elliott <[log in to unmask]>
Organization:   Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
To:     Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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More apropos the Barrington:

The individual maps (at modestly better scales) provide more detail
where historical coastlines are concerned. Though, as Craig points out,
modern coastlines are deliberately *not* shown. For coastal Turkey,
there are areas where coastline change was so pronounced over the 1,500
historical years the atlas covers that multiple stages in coastline are
shown.

There are also areas where no reliable research had been done at the
time of the Atlas' compilation, and so the coastlines on those maps will
exactly match those on the base charts from which the compilations
proceeded (Defense Mapping Agency charts as listed in a table near the
front of the Atlas). A notable example of this occurs in the coastal
areas surrounding Troy, where subsequent research (independent of the
Atlas project) has demonstrated significant coastline change since
antiquity (validating at a gross level the geographic description
preserved in Homer's Iliad), viz:
http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2003/troy030303.html

Best,
Tom


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Tom Elliott
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New York University
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