-------- Original Message -------- 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 <[log in to unmask]> References: <[log in to unmask]> 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 -- Tom Elliott Associate Director for Digital Programs Institute for the Study of the Ancient World New York University http://homepages.nyu.edu/~te20/