| ABSTRACT | Human-Environment-interaction has long been a subject of research in Greece, but there is a dearth of environmental records with high temporal resolution in the direct vicinity of archaeological sites. Liminic and lagoonal sediments from the Peloponnese and around the Gulf of Corinth, are highly sensitive archives for climatic and environmental changes, and are located in the direct vicinity of well-known archaeological sites, (Mycene, Olympia, Delphi). Hence, they provide excellent environmental records in an archaeological context. During the last decade, we have investigated 2 (former) lake sites in the center of the Peloponnese, Stymphalia and Asea, and several lagoonal sites along the Western and Northern coast of the Peloponnese. To reconstruct the palaeoenvironmental conditions at the sites we mainly used geochemical and sedimentological proxies. The respective age-depth-models were based on radiocarbon dates with combined in Bayesian statistical models. The sites we investigated cover age ranges from few thousand years until more than 45,000 years. However, the quality of the age information is very variable from site to site and is often hampered by reservoir or hard water effects and the scarcity of suitable dating material. Due to strong differences in sedimentation rates between the sites, the temporal resolution is also highly variable. While the lagoonal sites mainly reflect changes in sea level and tectonic activity, the lake sites mainly reflect changes in climatic conditions and water availability. The environmental signals of all sites are overprinted by the impact of human activity, of varying duration and intensity. In our presentation we evaluate the quality of the different lake and lagoon archives we have investigated, we highlight chances and challenges of the different sites and discuss perspectives for future geoarchives in and around the Peloponnese. |