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A submerged 7000-year-old village and seawall demonstrate earliest known coastal defence against sea-level rise

  • Ehud Galili ,

    Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

    * E-mail: galilish@netvision.net.il

    Affiliation Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9621-4921

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  • Jonathan Benjamin,

    Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Maritime Archaeology Program, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2702-6254

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  • Vered Eshed,

    Roles Investigation, Resources

    Affiliation Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem, Israel

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  • Baruch Rosen,

    Roles Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Independent researcher, Kaplanski St. 26 Petah Tikva, Israel

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  • John McCarthy,

    Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation Maritime Archaeology Program, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

    ORCID logo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7449-9508

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  • Liora Kolska Horwitz

    Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

    Affiliation National Natural History Collections, Faculty of Life Science, The Hebrew University, E. Safra Campus, Jerusalem, Israel

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A submerged 7000-year-old village and seawall demonstrate earliest known coastal defence against sea-level rise

  • Ehud Galili, 
  • Jonathan Benjamin, 
  • Vered Eshed, 
  • Baruch Rosen, 
  • John McCarthy, 
  • Liora Kolska Horwitz
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  • Published: December 18, 2019
  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222560
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