The flandrian coastline in the Guadalquivir river paleoestuary (c. 6500 BC)

Abstract

This work presents a brief sinthesis of the theoretical starting points and the investigative results of the doctoral dissertation The Flandrian Transgression in the alluvial plain near Sevilla. The Guadalquivir river palaeoestuary, which includes the mapping of the coastline of the paleoestuary generated by the Flandrian Transgression circa 6500 years ago in the Guadalquivir valley in the area of Sevilla, north of the present-day marshlands. Also, data have been collected which allow to make approaches and produce work hypothesis about the fill process of the palaeoestuary. The gnoseological aim, according with the theoretical and methodological framework of the Dialectical Geoarchaeology, is to contribute to the explication, in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, of the causes of the historical development of the double dialectic between the social systems and the natural systems, in the transition from the neolithic tribal socioeconomic formation to the initial classist socioeconomic formation between the IVth and the IIIrd milennium BC.