Archaeologists have discovered a 7000-year-old sea wall built to protect a farming village from the Mediterranean Sea. Researchers first spotted the sea wall in 2012, in a submerged settlement called Tel Hreiz. Later, a storm in 2015 unveiled the additional stones. Researchers also recovered charcoal, wood pieces, animal bones and human remains from the sites. Radiocarbon dates from wood and bone date the village to about 7000 years ago. Researchers considering this 7000 years old Stonewall as the earliest evidence of humans protecting the coast in order to adapt to sea-level rise
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