This paper presents the sedimentological study of five stratigraphic profiles in the context of the archaeological site of La Picola (Littoral of Santa Pola, Alicante, Spain; Iberian and Roman cultures). It proposes a model of geomorphological evolution during the last milleniums and its relations to human settlement. The results show a important coastal mobility from 2.500 years BP up to-date, the existence of a marine erosive phase in the III century a.C. (also recorded in other littoral areas), and a trend towards progradeing of the coast, leading to the building of a beach-barrier after the roman period.
