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Multi-periodSite Name: Atlit-Yam
Country: Israel
NOTE: This site is 11.211 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Atlit
Latitude: 32.687222N  Longitude: 34.938333E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
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4Good
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1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Israel

Underwater Neolithic village. Evidence suggests the site was submerged by a tsunami caused by the flank collapse of Mt Etna.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlit_Yam

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19225814.600-how-etnas-neolithic-hiccup-set-off-a-tsunami.html

http://www.cataniacultura.com/130-iaa-ingv-e.htm
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More on Atlit-Yam Neolithic Village by Anonymous on Thursday, 18 June 2009
More on Atlit-Yam Neolithic Village (Score: 1)
by Andy B (andy@megalithic.co.uk) on Wednesday, 06 December 2006
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A ritual installation of megaliths was found at the Atlit-Yam site. It consists of seven stones (1-2.1 m long), six of which are still standing upright, forming a circle (diameter ca. 2.5 m) open to the northwest. The bases of the standing stones are covered with gray travertine attesting to the presence of fresh water in the past. Close to the standing stones to the west, a few flat stone slabs (0.7-1.2 m long) were found lying horizontally. On some of them were hewn shallow cup-marks. It is suggested that these features formed part of a ritual structure, perhaps associated with a fresh-water spring that may have existed at the site. Another installation consists of three oval stones (1.6-1.8 m), two of which are circumscribed by grooves forming schematic anthropomorphic figures.

Source:
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=14&subj_id=139
also
http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Atlit_Yam.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlit_Yam

I'm looking for a long/lat to put it in our main database...
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Very clicked articles about the submerged town of Atlit-Yam and its megaliths. by coldrum on Thursday, 18 June 2009
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Anonymous posted:

Very clicked articles about the submerged town of Atlit-Yam and its megaliths.

Dear Megalithic Portal,
I would announce you two interesting articles about
the submerged town of Atlit-Yam (the settlement that – as discovered by the archaeologists – was devastated 8000 years ago by the Etna's tsunami), its submerged megaliths and about the problem of the European megaliths . If you are interested you can find it at the address

http://www.cataniacultura.com/120tsunami-e.htm and

http://www.cataniacultura.com/121megaliti-e.HTM .

I hope that also you can find interesting this articles, and if you think, can send me questions, comments, or other (my e-mail: posta@cataniacultura.com).
With my wishes of Merry Christmas and Happy 2009.
Ignazio Burgio – Italy.
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Infectious finds at ancient site by coldrum on Thursday, 18 June 2009
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Infectious finds at ancient site

A uniquely human strain of tuberculosis appears in the 9,000-year-old skeletons of a woman and a child
DNA evidence of human tuberculosis from these 9,000-year-old bones of a woman and an infant suggests the disease appeared in humans much earlier than thought.

TB or not TB? That was the question created by a pair of human skeletons excavated more than a decade ago at a 9,000-year-old village submerged off Israel’s coast.

Bone damage apparently produced by some type of infection created the Shakespearean dilemma that puzzled excavation director and anthropologist Israel Hershkovitz, head of the Dan David Laboratory for the Search and Study of Modern Humans at Tel Aviv University in Israel.

Thanks to a genetic analysis of the skeletons directed by Helen Donoghue and Mark Spigelman, both of University College London, Hershkovitz now knows that his team unearthed the earliest known cases of human tuberculosis. A roughly 25-year–old mother had apparently passed on the bacterial infection to her 1-year–old child, after which they both died and were buried together.

Other instances of human tuberculosis that have been confirmed by ancient DNA analyses date to no more than about 5,500 years ago in Egypt and Sweden.

Examination of DNA from the Israeli skeletons supports the idea, based on earlier studies of genetic variation in different strains of modern tuberculosis bacteria, that bovine tuberculosis evolved after human tuberculosis did, Hershkovitz and his colleagues conclude in a report published online October 15 in PLoS ONE.

Work at the ancient village of Atlit-Yam, which has been covered by water for the past several thousand years, yielded the skeletons and some of the earliest evidence for agriculture and for cattle domestication.

More at:
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/37619/title/Infectious_finds_at_ancient_site
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Ancient tsunami devastated the Mediterranean, including Atlit-Yam by coldrum on Thursday, 18 June 2009
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A volcano avalanche in Sicily 8,000 years ago triggered a devastating tsunami taller than a 10-story building that spread across the entire Mediterranean Sea, slamming into the shores of three continents in only a few hours. The Mt. Etna avalanche sent 6 cubic miles of rock and sediment tumbling into the water. The mountain of rubble crashed into the water at more than 200 mph. It pummeled the sea bed, transformed thick layers of soft marine sediment into jelly and triggered an underwater mudslide that flowed for hundreds of miles.

To create their computer simulation, researchers at the National Institute of Geology and Volcanology in Italy used sonar-equipped boats to survey seafloor sediment displaced by the Mt. Etna avalanche. Their recreation suggests the tsunami's waves reached heights of up to 40 metres and maximum speeds of up to 720 km/h, making it more powerful than the Indonesian tsunami that killed more than 180,000 people in 2004.

The researchers have also linked the ancient tsunami with the mysterious abandonment of Atlit-Yam, a Neolithic village located along the coast of present-day Israel. When archeologists discovered the village about 20 years ago, they found evidence of a sudden evacuation, including a pile of fish that had been gutted and sorted but then left to rot.

http://www.livescience.com/environment/061130_ancient_tsunami.html
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Israel's Atlantis by coldrum on Thursday, 18 June 2009
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The bay of Atlit, about 10 kilometers south of Haifa, is a quiet, picturesque stretch of beach. Sheltered by the promontory and the Crusader castle, the inlet looks as if it were scooped out with an ice-cream server. Between the unpaved road leading to the bay and the beach, wildflowers were already blooming on the cold windy day Metro investigated the mystery under that sea.

Dr. Ehud Galili, a marine archeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority, lives in Atlit and is passionate about this small town that is unfamiliar to most Israelis. Born in Haifa, Galili has been enraptured by the sea from childhood. A fourth-generation sabra, his grandmother's parents came from a fishing family who lived at the Kinneret. He actively campaigns against the encroachment of marinas and the high-rising construction that threatens the beauty of the ridges on this historic coastline. Galili's findings over the past 25 years have made him even more determined to preserve the area as a heritage site.

Galili details the various historic eras of the artifacts and human remains along this stretch of coast. At Kfar Samir and Kfar Galim, between Atlit and Haifa, the earliest-known evidence of olive oil was found - dating from the Late Neolithic era, some 7,500 years ago. A Phoenician harbor and the battering ram from a Hellenistic Greek warship were discovered just north of the Crusader castle.

But in 1984, during an underwater archeological survey, Galili and his colleagues discovered the Atlit-Yam village - some 400 meters offshore. The submerged village, he says, is the largest and best-preserved prehistoric settlement ever uncovered off the Mediterranean coast. In an area of 40,000 square meters eight to 12 meters below sea level, the archeologists found remains of human habitation dating back 9,000 years to the late Pre-Pottery Neolithic period.

Putting together the jigsaw puzzle of their findings, the architecture of the dwellings and the radiocarbon dating sets the scene for what is thought to have been the earliest-known agro-pastoral fishing community, a claim that has gone undisputed by archeological authorities. Marine discoveries from the site are published in professional journals worldwide.

THE ATLIT site is the only one in the world to have uncovered such a complete submerged village, and is also the only one known to contain undisturbed burials. The inhabitants were buried, placed in a flexed position on their sides or backs, sometimes in group graves. This appears to have been a common practice of that time, although the reason is not known. Perhaps the positioning indicates a return to the fetal position. Evidence of rituals suggesting ancestor worship, such as burying the dead close to or within the dwellings, has also been found. The burial sites also contained offerings to the dead, such as an axe for a male and a grinding-stone for a female. Floral and faunal remains suggest that the village sustained itself on hunting, herding, farming and fishing. Evidence of maritime activity, domestication of animals and plants, and the use of the water tables on the stone-built wells show a sophisticated level of civilization.

The condition of the human remains shows that although health was generally poor, many male inhabitants had lived to beyond 50, relatively long compared to other Neolithic communities. The average heights of the village's inhabitants, based on skeletons, were 144 cm. for women and 164 cm. for males. Many skeletons showed evidence of dental disease and a condition associated with using the teeth in making fishnets, as well as vertebrae disorders, elbow abrasion and specific muscle markings typical of boat rowers. Galili and Prof. Israel Herskovitz, senior lecturer in Physical Anthropology at Tel Aviv University Medical School, discovered anomalies in the ears of some of the skeletons which indicated that the villagers dove for fish.

Galili is convinced that 9,000 years ago, Atlit-Yam was a thriving mariti

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