FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Palaeoenvironmental reconstructions during the Meso- to Neolithic transition (9.2–5.3 cal. ka BP) in Northwestern France: Palynological evidences BT AF Lambert, Clément Vidal, Muriel Penaud, Aurélie LE ROY, Pascal Goubert, Evelyne Pailler, Yvan Stephan, Pierre Ehrhold, Axel AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:1;5:2;6:3;7:4;8:5; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:PDG-REM-GM-LGS; C1 Laboratoire Géosciences Océan (UMR 6538), IUEM, CNRS, Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO), France Laboratoire Géosciences Océan (UMR 6538), IUEM, CNRS, Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO), Université Bretagne Sud, France Grand-Ouest, INRAP, France LETG Brest GEOMER, IUEM, UMR 6554, CNRS, Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO), France Géosciences Marines, Centre de Brest, IFREMER, France C2 UBO, FRANCE UBO, FRANCE INRAP, FRANCE UBO, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-REM-GM-LGS UM LGO IN WOS Ifremer UPR copubli-france copubli-univ-france IF 2.353 TC 6 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00472/58341/60920.pdf LA English DT Article CR PROTEUS_DUNES_LEG1 PROTEUS_DUNES_LEG2 PROTEUS_DUNES_LEG3 SERABEQ-01 LEG1 SERABEQ-01 LEG2 SERABEQ-02 LEG1 SERABEQ-02 LEG2 SERABEQ-03 BO Pourquoi pas ? Albert Lucas Haliotis Thalia DE ;benthic foraminifera;climate variability;dinoflagellate cysts;human impacts;palaeoenvironments reconstructions;pollen grains AB Sedimentological, palynological, and micropalaeontological studies carried out throughout the first half of the Holocene, during the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition in the Bay of Brest (i.e. 9200–9000 and 6600–5300 cal. BP) and in the Bay of Douarnenez (i.e. 9200–8400 cal. BP), allowed characterizing coastal environmental changes under the increasing influence of the relative sea-level rise. The gradual flooding of the two studied sites implied a transition from river valleys to oceanic bays as revealed by the gradual retreat of salt marsh environments, as detected through palynological analysis. In addition, these high-resolution studies highlight the regional imprint of the North Atlantic millennial climate variability in north-western coastal environments. Two cold climate events are indeed suggested to have been locally marked by a moisture increase, mainly detected by increases in Lingulodinium machaerophorum, Corylus, and Alnus percentages at 8550 cal. BP in the Bay of Douarnenez and at 6250 cal. BP in the Bay of Brest. Moreover, regarding the Neolithic transition timing in the Bay of Douarnenez, large pollen grains of Poaceae (i.e. Cerealia-type pollen grains) have been detected at around 8600 cal. BP, that is, 1500 years before the general accepted cereal cropping appearance in Western France. These results, consistent with other palynological studies conducted in the French Atlantic coast, could underline a Mesolithic ‘proto-agriculture’ in Brittany. PY 2019 PD MAR SO Holocene SN 0959-6836 PU SAGE Publications VL 29 IS 3 UT 000461697500002 BP 380 EP 402 DI 10.1177/0959683618816457 ID 58341 ER EF