Atlit Yam
Submerged settlement · Israel
- Abandoned
- 6299 BC
- Founded
- 6899 BC
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 32.711, 34.935
Why it was abandoned
🌊 Flooded
Detected automatically from the text: submerged neolithic settlement in Israel
History
Atlit Yam is a submerged Pre Pottery Neolithic C (PPNC) archaeological site located 300–400 meters off the coast of Atlit, Israel. Dating from the late 7th to the early 6th millennia BCE, Atlit Yam provides the earliest known evidence for a community relying on pastoralism, agriculture, and fishing as subsistence systems on the Levantine coast. As of 2004, it is the only marine archaeological site in the Mediterranean to contain in situ human burials.