Atlit Yam
Atlit Yam: still unexplained.
A Neolithic village with its well, its ritual stone circle, its dead
Before bronze, before writing, a village stood on the Carmel coast: stone houses, a dug well, a circle of standing stones around a spring. The sea rose at the end of the ice age and closed over all of it. Nine thousand years later, divers found skeletons in their graves and wheat in the mud, and in two of the dead, the oldest known tuberculosis on earth. The well still holds fresh water under the sea.
- Pin down the most specific last-known position in the record before going; the search centers on Off Atlit, Carmel coast, Israel.
- What you are chasing is A Neolithic village with its well, its ritual stone circle, its dead. Work the documented record of Atlit Yam back to primary sources and separate what is attested from folklore.
- Israel Antiquities Authority research site, not open to recreational diving.
What remains open
- No period map of the site has surfaced.
- No contemporary press coverage has been found.
No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.
- No period map of the site has surfaced.
- No contemporary press coverage has been found.
No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.
- Pin down the most specific last-known position in the record before going; the search centers on Off Atlit, Carmel coast, Israel.
- What you are chasing is A Neolithic village with its well, its ritual stone circle, its dead. Work the documented record of Atlit Yam back to primary sources and separate what is attested from folklore.
- Israel Antiquities Authority research site, not open to recreational diving.
- Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
- Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
- Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.
Have a source, a map, or a clipping? Add a lead and it enters the record with its citation.
- Atlit Yam · archive record · tertiary · encyclopedia
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