The lesson of the ancient town that survived climate change – Haaretz.com

Survival in adverse circumstances is a crapshoot. Some people even survive getting shot in the head. The lesson of an ancient riverside Turkish settlement in Tell Tayinat – which may have been home base for the Philistines and where the population seems to have thrived despite bouts of regional climate change 4,500 and 3,000 years ago, archaeologists believe – isn’t that climatic change is survivable; some will survive. The lesson is that a significant proportion may not and that adaptability can’t…

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