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- From: wcalvin@stein.u.washington.edu (William Calvin)
- Newsgroups: sci.archaeology
- Subject: Re: First city and longest continuously inhabited city?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.071052.22805@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 07:10:52 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec22.071052.22805
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- dchapman@well.sf.ca.us (Dave Chapman) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec21.232211.421@cs.wisc.edu> rcmolden@parmesan.cs.wisc.edu (Robertc. Moldenhauer) writes:
- >>The longest continuously inhabited city is considered to be Jericho, in the
- >>Israeli occupied West Bank, which was a town of 1 to 2 000 in the Pre Pottery
- >>Neolithic period (8500 - 7500 BCE).
-
- > Jerico also has, I believe, the dubious distinction of being the
- >first city to be destroyed by conquest. (Can't remember the reference.)
-
- Jericho was always getting destroyed; there are about four major
- earthquakes per century in that rift valley (where the African and Arabian
- plates meet), and sometimes the attacks on the city coincided with one
- (Josha?). But there are springs in the hillside above the modern city,
- and so settlements there were always rebuilt. There are some older
- settlements in Turkey, closer to 12,000 years old, but not continuously
- inhabited.
- William H. Calvin WCalvin@U.Washington.edu
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