Haifa city in Israel is seen from air. A lost Neolithic village has been found submerged under sea near Haifa. Wikimedia Commons
Posted on 12/13/2014 6:43:11 PM PST by SunkenCiv
A prehistoric water well hinting at the existence of a thriving Neolithic settlement has been excavated under water at Israel's East Mediterranean coast.
The 7,500-year-old water well, currently under five metres of water, was submerged following prehistoric rise in sea level.
Maritime archaeologist Ehud Galili of the Israel Antiquities Authority led the excavation at Kfar Samir site in collaboration with experts at Flinders University in South Australia and University of Haifa in Israel.
Archaeologists said that the well which was a source of fresh water for the village dwellers was abandoned as the sea level rose.
"Water wells are valuable to Neolithic archaeology because once they stopped serving their intended purpose, people used them as big rubbish bins," excavation team member Jonathan Benjamin, maritime archaeologist at Flinders University, told local media IN Daily.
"At the Kfar Samir site, the water well was probably abandoned when sea levels started to rise and the freshwater became salty so people threw food scraps and animal bones down the well instead."
Archaeologists hope the sediments collected from the well will shed more light on the lifestyle of the Neolithic village, including the early Mediterranean diet.
"As they were a pre-metal society we expect to find stone tools; perhaps weapons made of flint, and needles made of bone," Benjamin said.
"We're also hoping to find organic material such as plant fibers, seeds and evidence of domestic crops such as olive stones that we can date."
"Previous excavations suggest this is likely the world's oldest olive oil production centre and while it's too early to tell what we've sampled from this small excavation, the preliminary results are promising," he concluded.
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Haifa city in Israel is seen from air. A lost Neolithic village has been found submerged under sea near Haifa. Wikimedia Commons
1-Who lost it?
2-It seems to have worked rather “well”.....(being submerged and all...)
3-Why do they refer to it as the “sea rising” when it’s clear the land fell?
A true sunken civilization!
Haifa is a BEAUTIFUL city, with great views. It was one of the loveliest cities I visited in Israel.
Two reasons. Ignorance and Point of View.
ping
This is 500 cm. in 75 centuries. 6.66 cm. per century. The global warming alarmists are claiming that 2 to 3 cm. of sea level rise per century is going to wipe us all out, where here were have absolute proof that the earth has averaged 2 to 3 times the catastrophic rate for 7500 years and humans are doing just fine.
Anyone wonder why they think of me as a mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging skeptic...
I bet Israelis eventually bulldozed it to build Jewish settlements. Free Neolitic Intifada!
Shame on you...
You are allowing such extreme items as facts, logic, and reason to obscure the truth of their claims...
Bad boy. No government grants for you, you mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging skeptic... ;-)
Antediluvian bump!
It’s antediluvian, and if there are protests against it, it’ll be anti-dive-luvian as well. Or somethin’ that’s really funny instead of what I just wrote.
;’)
Those Neolithic bastards can really hold their breath a long time.
Nice job!
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