Artist reconstruction of ancient village and seawall. Credit: John McCarthy and Ehud Gallili
Posted on 01/01/2020 9:19:27 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Ancient Neolithic villagers on the Carmel Coast in Israel built a seawall to protect their settlement against rising sea levels in the Mediterranean, revealing humanity's struggle against rising oceans and flooding stretches back thousands of years.
An international team of researchers from the University of Haifa, Flinders University in Australia, the Israel Antiquities Authority and The Hebrew University uncovered and analysed the oldest known coastal defence system anywhere in the world, constructed by ancient settlers from boulders sourced in riverbeds from 1-2km near their village.
In a study published today in PLOS ONE, Dr Ehud Galili from the Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, explains that the over 100 metre long seawall proved to be a temporary reprieve and the ancient village was eventually abandoned and inundated...
Coauthor Dr Jonathan Benjamin from Flinders University in Australia says the Tel Hreiz settlement was first recognised as a potential archaeological site in the 1960's but the relevant areas that were exposed by natural processes in 2012, revealed this previously unknown archaeological material.
(Excerpt) Read more at eurekalert.org ...
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 ....
LOL, GMTA.
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?
If they had only paid more taxes and let the politicians skim the money into their accounts then the sea would have stayed where is was.....
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.
Greta blames it on left over dinosaur farts and campfires by the bipeds of the time.
The great big yellow ball of flame in the sky had nothing to do with it she says. Never mind that earth is the size of a grain of sand on Michael Moore's butt; comparatively speaking.
That was it? One country built a seawall while the rest of the world sat on its hands? How darest thou?!
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Unlike their neighbors near and far, the people of the village never learned to swim.
An entire civilization comprised of over a dozen cities is under 50ft of water off the coast of India.
Global Warming already happened.
I heard it happened long about a Saturday night, yeah.
That is true and also written “the earth will ‘wear out’ like a garment”.....
They had only 12 years to stop it, and now look what happened./s
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