A Neolithic mega-tsunami event in the eastern Mediterranean: Prehistoric settlement vulnerability along the Carmel coast, Israel

• Gilad Shtienberg ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Gshtienberg@ucsd.edu

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0303-7872

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• Assaf Yasur-Landau,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Maritime Civilizations, L.H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, The Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies (RIMS), University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

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• Richard D. Norris,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America

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• Michael Lazar,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Dr. Moses Strauss Department of Marine Geosciences, L.H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

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• Tammy M. Rittenour,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geosciences, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1925-0395

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• Anthony Tamberino,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Levant and Cyber-Archaeology Laboratory, Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America

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• Omri Gadol,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Hatter department of Marine Technologies, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

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• Katrina Cantu,

  Roles Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America

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• Ehud Arkin-Shalev,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Maritime Civilizations, L.H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, The Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies (RIMS), University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1592-3679

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• Steven N. Ward,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

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• Thomas E. Levy

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America, Levant and Cyber-Archaeology Laboratory, Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America

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