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Sheltered between the 4-meter high, 2.5-meter wide walls and the 60-meter-deep gorges, people built dugout houses, then later aboveground stone ones, along with stone animal pens and other buildings.

Virtual 3D reconstruction of al-Natah, a Bronze Age settlement in Saudi Arabia. Charloux et al., 2024, PLOS One It was abandoned around a thousand years later. "No one knows why," Charloux said.

But that Late Bronze Age collapse was not a one-size-hits-all event. Archaeologist Eric H. Cline sees it as a complicated tragedy and transition, with only some societies vanishing.

In the ninth century B.C., a marshland settlement was ravaged by fire and sunk into a stream. Thousands of years later, archaeologists have uncovered the largest Bronze Age discovery in the U.K.

“In a typical Bronze Age site, if you’ve got a house, you’ve probably got maybe a dozen post holes in the ground and they’re just dark shadows of where it once stood.