Archaeology Tipoffs from TNS Newsletter for Wednesday May 01, 2024 ( 1 items ) |
UC-San Diego: Scientists Show Ancient Village Adapted to Drought, Rising Seas
LA JOLLA, California, May 1 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news:
Story by: Xochitl Rojas-Rocha
Around 6,200 BCE, the climate changed. Global temperatures dropped, sea levels rose and the southern Levant, including modern-day Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, southern Syria and the Sinai desert, entered a period of drought.
Previously, archaeologists believed that this abrupt shift in global climate, called the 8.2ka event, m
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