Wikipedia's first sentence called it “submerged ancient neolithic village off the coast of atlit”. Today it says “submerged pre pottery neolithic c”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Human settlement in Israel”. It now reads “Submerged neolithic settlement in Israel”.
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Atlit Yam in Israel dates between 6900 and 6300 BC cal.1Today, it lies between 8-12 m beneath sea level in the Bay of Atlit at the mouth of the Oren river on the Carmel coast. It covers an area of ca. 40.000 m2.2Underwater excavations have uncovered rectangular houses and a well, which to date (2004) is the oldest in the world.3The site was covered by the eustatic rise of sea-levels after the end of the Ice-Age . It is assumed that the contemporary coast-line was about 1 km west of the present coast.4
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Atlit Yam is an ancient submerged Neolithic village off the coast of Atlit , Israel .Atlit-Yam provides the earliest known evidence for an agro-pastoral-marine subsistence system on the Levantine coast. The final Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site of Atlit Yam dates between 6900 and 6300 BC. Today, it lies between 8–12 m beneath sea level in the Bay of Atlit at the mouth of the Oren river on the Carmel coast. It covers an area of ca. 40.000 m². Underwater excavations have uncovered rectangular houses and a well. The site was covered by the eustatic rise of sea-levels after the end of the Ice age . It is assumed that the contemporary coast-line was about 1 km west of the present coast. Piles of fish ready for trade or storage have led scientists to conclude that the village was abandoned suddenly.An Italian study led by Maria Pareschi of the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Pisa indicates that a volcanic collapse of the Eastern flank of Mount Etna 8500 years ago would likely have caused a 10-story (40 m) tsunami to engulf some Mediterranean coastal cities within hours.Some scientists point to the apparent abandonment of Atlit Yam around the same time as further evidence that such a tsunami did indeed occur.Nir, The submerged pre-pottery Neolithic water well at Atlit-Yam, northern Israel, and its palaeoenvironmental implications The Holocene 3, 1993, 265-270.
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Atlit Yam is an ancient submerged Neolithic village off the coast of Atlit , Israel .
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Human settlement in Israel Atlit Yam is an ancient submerged Neolithic village off the coast of Atlit , Israel .It has been carbon-dated as to be between 8900 and 8300 years old.Among the features of the 10-acre site is a stone circle .
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Human settlement in Israel Atlit Yam is a submerged ancient Neolithic village off the coast of Atlit , Israel.It has been carbon-dated as to be between 8,900 and 8,300 years old. Among the features of the 10-acre site is a stone circle .
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Submerged neolithic settlement in Israel Atlit Yam ( Hebrew : עתלית ים ) is a submerged Pre Pottery Neolithic C (PPNC) archaeological site located 300–400 meters off the coast of Atlit , Israel.Dating from the late 7th to the early 6th millennia BCE, Atlit Yam provides the earliest known evidence for a community relying on pastoralism , agriculture, and fishing as subsistence systems on the Levantine coast.As of 2004, it is the only marine archaeological site in the Mediterranean to contain in situ human burials.
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “submerged ancient neolithic village off the coast of atlit”. Today it says “submerged pre pottery neolithic c”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Human settlement in Israel”. It now reads “Submerged neolithic settlement in Israel”. Read the current article and compare.
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submerged ancient neolithic village off the coast of atlit
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submerged pre pottery neolithic c
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