Today, we’re looking at how ancient sea-level changes reshaped the northern Adriatic coast.

Changes in the height of the sea’s surface.

Today, we’re looking at how ancient sea-level changes reshaped the northern Adriatic coast.

Changed the shape or form of the coast.

It was repeatedly reshaped over thousands of years.

It was changed in shape many times over thousands of years.

Nora, researchers have reconstructed a stretch of coastline that is now partly underwater.

Worked out what the coastline was like in the past.

The team combined information from sediment cores—samples taken from layers of earth—with new geophysical data, which help show what lies below the ground or seabed.

Long samples taken from layers of earth or seabed to study them.

The team combined information from sediment cores—samples taken from layers of earth—with new geophysical data, which help show what lies below the ground or seabed.

Information gathered to show what is beneath the ground or seabed.

What did that landscape look like before the sea moved inland?

Advanced from the coast toward land farther from the sea.

The area around Trieste was once hills above swamps and lagoons.

Wet areas of land with very soft, muddy ground.

Plains were submerged, and wetlands and lagoons formed and changed.

Covered by water.

Mesolithic hunter-gatherers depended on local plants and animals for food.

People who lived by hunting animals and gathering wild plants for food.

As the landscape changed, habitats and food sources changed too.

Places or things that provide food.

The team combined information from sediment cores—samples taken from layers of earth—with new geophysical data, which help show what lies below the ground or seabed.

The ground at the bottom of the sea.

By combining evidence from the land and seabed, researchers can add those areas to the picture of the past.

The ground at the bottom of the sea.