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Atlit Yam and submerged Neolithic landscapes

Atlit Yam

Submerged architecture, wells, burials, plants, animals, fishing equipment, and artifacts preserve coastal household life and environmental change.

Submerged Neolithic settlement, household, subsistence, burial, and environmental context Approximately 7000-6000 BCE Underwater survey, architecture, wells, burials, artifacts, fauna, plants, sediments, and radiocarbon dating Atlit Yam underwater site; a protected archaeological point, not a submerged territorial boundary
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Géographie, contexte politique et héritage

Connexions méditerranéennes, fluviales, de vallées, hauts plateaux, déserts, pèlerinage e empires

Coast, wells, fields, fisheries, grazing, and changing shorelines shaped community life.

Organisation politique et échelle communautaire

Household and communal activity is visible; centralized authority and a named people are not demonstrated.

Contextes impériales, religieuxs, de patrimoine vivant et réception moderne

Underwater heritage stewardship and human-remains ethics apply; the site cannot establish modern descent.

Preservation submerged settlement evidence

Survival is exceptional and comparison with eroded coasts is uneven.

Reviewed 2026 [S1] [S2]
Water constructed wells

Infrastructure does not by itself prove centralized government.

Reviewed 2026 [S1] [S3]
Narrative limit not a lost civilization

Sea-level change must not be converted into modern myth or ancestry.

Reviewed 2026 [S2] [S3]
Séquence historique

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Ces repères servent d'orientation et ne constituent pas une histoire complète.

  1. Coastal settlement is occupied

    Houses, wells, and work areas formed near the shoreline.

    [S1] [S2]

  2. Mixed subsistence supports households

    Fishing, farming, herding, and gathering are evidenced.

    [S1] [S3]

  3. Rising sea covers the site

    Environmental change created underwater preservation.

    [S2] [S3]

  4. Underwater research documents remains

    Recovery depends on conservation and ethical treatment.

    [S1] [S2]
Culture et langue

Culture et langue en contexte

Langues mentionnées dans ce profil

  • No directly attested language

Famille linguistique: Not recoverable from underwater archaeology

Submerged architecture

Water wells

Fishing

Environmental change

This summary describes only what the cited public sources support.

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    Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

  2. C2

    Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

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    Human Origins Program

    Smithsonian Institution · National museum research resource · Current resource

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    West Semitic Research Project

    University of Southern California · Academic inscription and manuscript project · Current resource

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    Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library

    Israel Antiquities Authority · Public manuscript resource · Current resource

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    Ancient Near East collections

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Museum research collection · Current database

  7. C7

    Petra

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

  8. C8

    Umm Al-Jimāl

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

  9. C9

    Emergency safeguarding of Syrian cultural heritage

    UNESCO · International heritage stewardship resource · Current resource

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    Byblos

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

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    Tyre

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage record · Current record

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    American Center of Research in Jordan

    ACOR · Regional archaeological research institution · Current resource

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    Underwater archaeological research

    Israel Antiquities Authority · Public heritage authority · Current resource

  14. S2

    Underwater Cultural Heritage

    UNESCO · International heritage resource · Current resource

  15. S3

    Maritime archaeology research

    University of Haifa · University research resource · Current resource

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