La piana di Sibari (CS), reciproche influenze fra variazioni morfologiche e popolamento.

The Sibari Plain developed during the Holocene, thanks to the sediments of the Crati River and some other minor creeks. Over the centuries there was a seawards migration of the shoreline; beach ridges favoured the development of a lagoon that changed, in the log run, its own morphology; there were frequent shifts and avulsions in ?uvial channels. During the Neolithic period, people inhabited on a marine terrace near the river and the cost, but until the arrive of Greek settlers, there weren’t other settlements in the Plain. The Achaean colonizers carried out the land reclamation and the drainage of the plain, so that they allowed inhabiting the unemployed areas. From this moment man attempted to control the environmental evolution. Sometimes he succeeded and was able to modify the plain, but sometimes man itself underwent the environmental changes. During the Greek and Roman period, historical-economic causes and climatic changes produced prosperous periods or crisis of the population, and in the 7 th century the plain was gradually abandoned. I