摘要 : The ancient city of Lixus, today situated on a hill on the right bank of the River Loukkos, 4 kmfrom the coast, was founded on the shore of a brackish lagoon that was sheltered from Atlanticstorms. This geographical context provid... 展开 The ancient city of Lixus, today situated on a hill on the right bank of the River Loukkos, 4 kmfrom the coast, was founded on the shore of a brackish lagoon that was sheltered from Atlanticstorms. This geographical context provided the city with one of the best Phoenician harborsand abundant fishing resources, and allowed access to the Gharb cattle farming resources andcereal production systems. In this study, the historical evolution of the Loukkos estuarineenvironment is reconstructed through geomorphological and sedimentological analyses,combined with cartographic, archaeological, and geographical data. The outcomes reveal theprogressive infilling of the estuarine lagoon of Lixus and its transformation into the currentestuary and floodplain. The recent history of this estuary records four successive stages: (1) aninitial stage associated with the maximum Holocene marine transgression (5500 to 5320 cal.yr B.R) that reached the interior of the estuary; (2) a sheltered brackish tidal lagoon stage inPhoenician and Roman times; (3) a period of progressive infilling of the estuarine lagoon, fromlate Roman times to the Middle Ages (11th tol5th centuries); (4) a period of rapid expansionof intertidal marshes (17th to 19th centuries) that saw the formation of the modern estuarineplain and meandering channel system (20th century). 收起