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- From: dchapman@well.sf.ca.us (Dave Chapman)
- Subject: Re: First city and longest continuously inhabited city?
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- References: <1992Dec21.211306.24221@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> <1992Dec21.232211.421@cs.wisc.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:45:42 GMT
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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.)
- It seems that there is a deep layer of _beehive_ buildings, similar
- to round mud huts. Above this is a layer of charcoal and wreckage, and
- above that is a town built using square buildings, a wall, etc. Other
- evidence suggests that there was a major cultural change at the same time,
- leading to the suspicion that the place was conquered by invaders.
- Several thousand years later, nothing has changed. :-(
-
- -dave
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