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    Atlit Yam

    Submerged neolithic 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 4.0 ha site is a stone circle. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    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. ... The settlement has been dated by three radiocarbon dates from submerged branches: [citation needed] Lab-number BP date (approx.) deviation RT-2477/8 7605 6460 BC: 55 RT-2479 7460 6270-6390 ...
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  4. thearchaeologist.org

    Feb 23, 2023It's a large fishing village, a permanent settlement now lying 9-12 metres below sea level, off the coast of Israel, 10km south of Haifa, in the North Bay of the town of Atlit. This is a truly incredible site with unique archaeology, including the world's oldest example of a stone water well, a megalithic stone circle, rectangular dwellings ...
  5. archaeology-world.com

    Atlit Yam, a 9,000-year-old underground megalithic settlement. On the Levantine coast, Atlit-Yam offers the earliest known evidence for an agro-pastoral-marine subsistence system. The site of Atlit Yam has been carbon-dated to be between 8,900 and 8,300 years old (calibrated dates) and belongs to the final Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period.
  6. ancient-archaeology.com

    Mar 1, 2023The wells from Atlit-Yam had probably been dug and constructed in the earliest stages of occupation (the end of the 9th millennium BC) and were essential for the maintenance of a permanent settlement in the area. The ancient artifacts unearthed at Atlit Yam offer clues into how the prehistoric inhabitants once lived.
  7. ancientpages.com

    Atlit Yam is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement submerged off the Carmel coast of Israel. Atlit Yam is an important archaeological place because the well-preserved finds at the site have provided scientists with helpful information about the burial practices of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic society. This is a subject researchers possessed little ...
  8. antiquities.org.il

    The sites include a Pre-Pottery Neolithic C (PPNC) settlement called Atlit-Yam, and five Pottery-Neolithic (PN) settlements belonging to the Wadi Rabah culture. Atlit-Yam Megalithic structure - after excavation The site of Atlit-Yam is situated some 200-400 m offshore, at a depth of 8-12 m and extends over an area of ca. 40000 m 2. Radiocarbon ...
  9. archaeology-world.com

    Today, the exceptionally well preserved 40,000 m² site is located approximately 200-400 m offshore on the north bay of Atlit, at a depth of 8-11 m below modern sea level. Atlit Yam is one of the best-preserved submerged prehistoric settlements in the world. It was discovered and studied during the 1980s and 1990s, while excavations and surveys ...
  10. heritagedaily.com

    Atlit Yam is a submerged Neolithic settlement, located off the Atlit coast in present-day Israel. During the beginning of the Holocene, tectonic tilting and climatic changes led to swamps along the Israeli coastal plain to dry up. The reclaimed land in the retreating shoreline was settled by Neolithic peoples from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic ...
  11. whitelevy.fas.harvard.edu

    Most of the PN sites (Kfar-Samir; Hishuley Carmel; Kfar-Galim; Nahal Galim; Hahoterim; Tel-Hreiz; Megadim; Atlit north bay; Neve-Yam and Habonim) are attributed to the Wadi Rabah culture, considered as late Pottery Neolithic or early Chalcolithic, while the Neve-Yam North site belong to the Lodian culture, which predates the Wadi Rabah culture ...

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