Ancient Coastal Resource Management in the Face of Climate Change During the Early Pottery Neolithic- A Case Study from Habonim North, Israel

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Climate reconstruction records show that during the Early Pottery Neolithic Period (henceforth EPN), ca. 8200 years ago, there was a sudden change in the environment, lowering both precipitation amounts and temperatures. This change was thought to have been the cause of the abandonment of the coastal villages of the Carmel in Israel. This theory was upheld until recently following excavations at the submerged site of Habonim North, located at a depth of 2.5-3 m roughly 200 m south of Tel Nami. The research investigates the archaeological finds from the excavation, which bare indication for a sedentary village with a diverse economic system that includes agriculture, fishing, procurement of local raw materials, and trade. This new evidence shows that, even when confronting an abrupt change in the environment, the coastal settlers continued the economic systems of Pre-Pottery Neolithic, and even introduced pottery as a new commodity.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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