As ice lightened its grip of the area about 11.500 BCE, the area was inundated by melt water before the land started to rise and the first islets rose over the water surface (at the time located about 40 metres over the present sea level) [REF].
After some 1.000 years the first humans settled in the area to start the Stone Age era characterized by a climate similar to that of the present Mediterranean Sea [REF].