A wave hit Dor - not Tel Dor, we'll get into why not. The water went inland at least 1.5 km, possibly 3.5 km. If the former, 16 m high; more likely, latter, 40 m high. Either way: pulse-driven tsunami, not storm. Armageddon, one might say; probably Carmel Fault.
"9.91 to 9.29 ka" so 7960-7340 BC. <3Science! marks yearzero at AD 1950. This is Aceramic in technology, elsewhere late Mesolithic but here (per Kenyon) deemed "Neolithic B". The pottery was hollowed stone, but the people did have kilns for limestone cement.
Jericho by the Salt Sea was already an old city! - but the people along the Med were still mere villagers. It was all marsh at the time. Israeli archaeologists were wondering how come there's no record of coastal Neolithic A, even Natufian before that: a 4000 year gap. The wave could have washed away its record.
Genetically there is much E1b1b; culturally (Wiki tells me) connection with Iberomaurusian along north Africa. K mtDNA, like King Tut. By language, we are assuredly coming up to the first Semites but, who knows so close to this coast; it could be Egyptian Delta.
This wave was worse than any in the Near East's history. Much worse than Tel Kabri, worse than Thera after that.
After this, Neolithic B moved up the hills. They'd have had to do that anyway because the sea level was still rising worldwide.
UPDATE 2/23/22: Chile AD 1420, hitting Japan. This is just the latest in a series of bands . . .
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