 atlit yam is an ancient submerged neolithic village off the coast of atlit, israel. ==history== atlit-yam provides the earliest known evidence for an agro-pastoral-marine subsistence system on the levantine coast.marine archaeology the final pre-pottery neolithic b site of atlit yam dates between 6900 and 6300 bc. today, it lies between  beneath sea level in the bay of atlit, at the mouth of the oren river on the carmel coast. it covers an area of ca. . underwater excavations have uncovered rectangular houses and a well. the site was covered by the eustatic rise of sea-levels after the end of the ice age. it is assumed that the contemporary coast-line was about 1&nbsp;km (half-mile) west of the present coast.ehud galili/y. nir, the submerged pre-pottery neolithic water well at atlit-yam, northern israel, and its palaeoenvironmental implications the holocene 3, 1993, 265-270.ehud galili/ jacob sharvi. "submerged neolithic water-wells from the carmel coast of israel". landschaftsverband rheinland, rheinisches amt fÃ¼r bodendenkmalpflege (ed.), brunnen der jungsteinzeit. internationales symposium in erkelenz, 27-29 october 1997. materialien zur denkmlapflege im rheinland 11, 1998 (bonn habelt). p. 31-44. piles of fish ready for trade or storage have led scientists to conclude that the village was abandoned suddenly. an italian study led by maria pareschi of the italian national institute of geophysics and volcanology in pisa indicates that a volcanic collapse of the eastern flank of mount etna 8,500 years ago would likely have caused a 10-storey () tsunami to engulf some mediterranean coastal cities within hours. some scientists point to the apparent abandonment of atlit yam aroun
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