Indeed, archeologists have found evidence of 20 successive settlements in Jericho dating back as far as 9,000BC.
It sits beside the country's richest ancient site, where the remains of six successive settlements are crowned by a gargantuan 16th-century Portuguese fort.
This multi-proxy approach serves to document the effects of successive human settlements on the environment at the watershed scale.
Because of its position facing the continent of Europe across the Strait of Dover, Kent has been subjected to numerous invasions and has attracted successive waves of settlement.
That operation, which continued for the next 30 years, raising minimal criticism from the British, effectively honed the skills of the men who would become the main negotiators in successive Anglo-Irish settlements.
Other tribes, including many in the Eastern United States that were decimated by successive waves of European settlement, have more trouble proving their descent from tribes that existed long ago.
Despite America's longstanding position considering Israeli settlements illegitimate, successive administrations have done very little to stop the expansion of the settlement enterprise.
Earlier this month Pompey were relegated for the second-successive season but their settlement means Portpin's charge against Fratton Park has been removed and they no longer have a hold or guarantees over Portsmouth Football Club.
Furthermore, under U.N. Security Council resolutions 446, 452, 465 and 471, Israel is explicitly required to withdraw from these settlements, but successive Democratic and Republican administrations -- with support of congressional leaders of both parties -- have blocked the United Nations from enforcing these resolutions.
From an analysis of the skeletons and pottery, scientists identified the two successive cultures that occupied the settlement.
