English summary: Olympia is located 19 km from the Ionian Sea at the confluence of the Kladeos and Alpheios rivers behind the narrow ridge at Flokas-Platanos. Since the 19th century, the holy sanctuary has been excavated from the position of the Olympic Terrace, which has an elevation of several meters and can be traced almost all the way down to the coastline. The so far unsolved mystery of Olympia being buried under layers of soil is therefore inextricably connected with the history of the river and landscape of the ...
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English summary: Olympia is located 19 km from the Ionian Sea at the confluence of the Kladeos and Alpheios rivers behind the narrow ridge at Flokas-Platanos. Since the 19th century, the holy sanctuary has been excavated from the position of the Olympic Terrace, which has an elevation of several meters and can be traced almost all the way down to the coastline. The so far unsolved mystery of Olympia being buried under layers of soil is therefore inextricably connected with the history of the river and landscape of the Kladeos and Alpheios valley. Andreas Vott presents current approaches to explain the sedimentary coverage of Olympia and discusses these in the light of new findings made in the scope of a research project on Olympia and its environment which was funded by the German Archaeological Institute and the local Antiquities Authority (Ephorie). With the help of a stratigraphic transect, Vott reveals that the lower Alpheios valley has been repeatedly flooded by tsunamis during the past 6000 years and which has resulted in his own 'Olympia tsunami hypothesis (OTH)'. German description: Olympia liegt rund 19 km vom Ionischen Meer entfernt am Zusammenfluss von Kladeos und Alpheios hinter der schmalen Hugelkette bei Flokas-Platanos. Das Heiligtum wird seit dem 19. Jahrhundert aus der mehrere Meter hohen Olympia-Terrasse ausgegraben, die sich fast bis zur Kuste verfolgen lasst. Das bislang ungeklarte Ratsel der Verschuttung Olympias hangt somit untrennbar mit der Fluss- und Landschaftsgeschichte des Kladeos- und Alpheios-Tals zusammen. Andreas Vott stellt bisherige Ansatze zur Erklarung der sedimentaren Uberdeckung Olympias vor und diskutiert diese im Licht der neuen Befunde, die sich im Rahmen eines Projekts des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts und der ortlichen Antikenbehorde (Ephorie) zur Erforschung Olympias und seines Umfelds ergeben haben. Die Auswertung von Bohrungen und geophysikalischen Messungen belegt, dass das Umfeld Olympias wiederholt von katastrophischen, hochenergetischen Uberschwemmungsereignissen betroffen war, fur die jedoch, wie Vott zeigt, anthropogene Bodenerosion, Starkregenereignisse, Hangrutschungen oder regionalspezifische Abflussspitzen des Alpheios nicht als Ausloser in Frage kommen. Vielmehr wird anhand eines stratigraphischen Transektes von der Kuste bis Olympia dokumentiert, dass das untere Alpheios-Tal innerhalb der vergangenen 6000 Jahre mehrfach von Tsunamis geflutet wurde. Votts daraus resultierende Olympia-Tsunami-Hypothese (OTH) geht davon aus, dass es hierbei zur Uberstromung der Hugelkette von Flokas-Platanos kam. Die Wassermassen nahmen ihren Weg zuruck zum Meer dann unmittelbar uber das Heiligtum hinweg, wofur auch geoarchaologische Befunde sprechen, die murartige Schlammstrome bezeugen, die die Altis erfasst hatten.
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