Foreword: North-Médoc quaternary formations as indicators of change in European environments and associated human settlements: new insights after the "LITAQ project"

Abstract

Recent severe winters have opened observation windows along the Aquitaine coastline (SW France) with particularly drastic impacts along the northern Gironde shores (Castelle et al., 2015), where, exceptionally, palaeoenvironmental sedimentary records and archaeological materials sealed below modern sand dunes are exposed in the intertidal zones (e.g. Tastet & Pontee, 1998; Aubie & Tastet, 2000). Historically these sedimentological sequences have been the focus of archaeologists ever since imp...