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An ancient 4,000-year-old ship dock was discovered in the Tel Dor National Park
The anchorage operated for about 2,000 years - from the Bronze Age to the Roman period - and also discovered a large stone anchor from about 3,300 years ago, which was removed from the heart of the sea in a complex underwater operation, and will be tested to try to understand its origin.
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Ziv Reinstein
Wednesday, 09 June 2021, 20:34
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Ancient anchor rescue operation in Tel Dor (Photo: Yaniv Cohen, Nature and Parks Authority)
An underwater educational-archeological excavation recently conducted by the Department of Marine Civilizations at the University of Haifa with the Nature and Parks Authority in the North Bay in Tel Dor National Park revealed an ancient ship mooring that was used continuously for about 2,000 years - from the Late Bronze Age (Canaanite period). 15 BC, up to the Roman and Byzantine periods, in the 5th century AD.
This is according to the findings of the excavation in which it was discovered that the entire bottom of the bay was paved with nitla (blast) stones, stones that were used to balance ancient ships.
Many of these stones are made of rocks that are not found in the country, when there is slate, and indicate the origin of the ships that moored in the bay.
In addition, many pottery vessels were found, most of which belonged to storage jars and large vessel amphorae that were used for sea transport of oil, wine and other products.
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Has been used continuously for about 2,000 years.
The Ancient Anchor at Tel Dor (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Amir Yorman, Institute of Marine Studies, University of Haifa)
Divers harness the ancient anchor before raising it from the seabed (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Amir Yorman, Institute of Marine Studies at the University of Haifa)
Tel Dor (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Yaniv Cohen)
The bay was suitable for mooring ships in ancient times
Another special discovery is a number of stone anchors, typical of the Bronze Age, including a large stone anchor weighing about 100 kg from about 3,300 years ago, of the type typical of the Late Bronze Age (Late Canaanite period) and an example also found in the ancient port city of Ugarh in Syria and a cargo ship early discovered near Aoloboron Turkey.
the excavation was conducted within the framework of cooperation between the Institute Recanati maritime Studies at Haifa University Scripps center for maritime Archeology at the University of San Diego in California, who studies the impact of the marine environment on the person in 10,000 years, and the NPA. the excavation of the year focused In the northern bay of Dor, on the border of the Habonim Nature Reserve, it is a round natural bay about 200 meters in diameter where the water depth is now four meters. During the Bronze and Iron Ages, when the sea level was lower, the bay was still about two meters deep. .
Weight of about 100 kg. The anchor after being taken out of the water (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Yaniv Cohen)
The anchor of the type typical of the Late Bronze Age.
The divers at the time of his release from the sea (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Amir Yorman, Institute of Marine Studies at the University of Haifa)
Tel Dor National Park (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Yaniv Cohen)
The city born of the sea
In addition, flint vessels, a stone bowl and a large grinding stone, probably belonging to a Neolithic settlement (the New Stone Age) that existed at the site before the sea rose and flooded it about 6,000 years ago, were found in the excavation.
Upon completion of the excavation and operation of underwater complex took part in students from Israel and abroad and members of the NPA, anchor ancient stone, sticking in size, was raised from the seabed using a parachute plateau, and now a source of stone from which it may be examined in order to try to understand its origin.
According to Prof. Assaf Yasur-Landau, head of the Recanati Institute of Marine Studies, University of Haifa, who led the project: "Underwater excavations and the training of the next generation of marine archaeologists are always a complicated scientific and logistical operation. "The collaboration with the director of the Tel Dor National Park, Yossi Ozen, led to the success of the project, and opened the door for future collaborations in the field of marine archeology with the Nature and Parks Authority."
According to Dr. Dror Ben Yosef, an archaeologist and heritage director for the Northern District of the Nature and Parks Authority: "The city of Dor was 'born from the sea' and throughout its periods of existence, its focus has been on the western horizon.
Making the legacy of Tel Dor accessible to the public has the potential to connect a story of thousands of years of maritime and land history of one of the most important cities discovered in the Land of Israel.
"The national park was opened to visitors this year after extensive development and accessibility work, including the construction of a foyer for visitors, arranging hiking trails including accessible, observation points and message signs around the national park's prominent and special points of interest."
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