Artist reconstruction of ancient village and seawall. Credit: John McCarthy and Ehud Gallili
Artist reconstruction of ancient village and seawall. Credit: John McCarthy and Ehud Gallili
I bet it was caused by mankind burning fossil fuels and pollution.
Oh, wait...
Wait, sea level rise is man-made, due to carbon dioxide from fossil fuels. Everyone knows that! So do you mean ancient Mediterranean civilizations had SUVs and coal-burning electrical stations? Wow, who knew. Science is so fascinating.... :-)
Well ... obviously ... there were no SUV’s or aerosol hairspray’s back then ....
These researchers left out the fact that it was the end of the last Ice Age and modern man today could build a coastal wall to contain or divert that amount of water.
natural process hijacked for modern political BS.
Great article SunkenCiv. Thanks for posting.
Seriously, though, the wall shown in the artist’s rendition, constructed from boulders, wouldn’t have done a damn thing against sea level rise, but it would have been useful against storm-caused waves. Slow rise would have gone right through a boulder wall, and around it. But waves would probably have been stopped from reaching up the beach, in the small protected area.
If the sea levels did rise, that explains the abandonment of the village. But I think the wall wasn’t meant to prevent slow rise. Just a thought...
Wouldn’t it be more logical that a seawall was built to provide an artificial harbor?
Why did the author reflexively go straight to globull worming?
What a foolish statement. As if the idea that coastal changes are something new to archaeologists. Most of the migratory path of the Clovis culture is underwater, for example.
Current estimates predict 21st century sea level rise to range from 1.7 to 3mm per year, representing a smaller change when compared to the threat experienced by the Neolithic community that built the ancient sea wall, however many of the same challenges will be posed according to the authors.
Ah, I see. So the point of this article is really just to draw a parallel to so-called anthropomorphic climate change. Got it.
That was it? One country built a seawall while the rest of the world sat on its hands? How darest thou?!
An entire civilization comprised of over a dozen cities is under 50ft of water off the coast of India.
Global Warming already happened.
Did any one consider that the boulder wall is mean to stop storms from obliterating planted clams and maybe oysters? That would explain the close proximity of the small village - living that close to the sea in tiny huts seems foolish unless there is a good reason, like harvesting seafood for trade
I blame “Global Something”.
Are they sure it was sea rise and not having an over population that sunk the land. It is well known that too many people on one side of an island will tip it over. Maybe same thing here........./sarc/sarc/
I seriously doubt a 100 meter length of “sea wall” held back any water at all.
Water can just go around things that get in its way, after all.
It’s more likely that the wall was built to keep Medy, the Mediterranean Sea Monster from just waddling right up into the village at chow time.
I am thinking there is a 99% chance this wall was meant for defense and not to block sea level rise. But leave it to the left to see everything historical in a politically correct light.
