文摘
The environmental background to the Neolithic occupation of the Rio Sizandro, western Portugal is elucidated via the ostracod assemblages and sedimentology of a well-dated part of borehole COU_14 from near the village of Coutada. Results from this location, under greater marine influence than sites previously studied, confirm changes from fluvial to brackish estuarine and lagoonal conditions driven by the interaction of changing eustatic sea level, barrier lagoon formation and valley infill from erosion related to climate change and possible human activity.