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The history of olive cultivation in the southern Levant [PDF]

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023
The olive tree (Olea europaea L. subsp. europaea var. europaea) is one of the most important crops across the Mediterranean, particularly the southern Levant.
Oz Barazani, Arnon Dag, Zachary Dunseth
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The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant. [PDF]

Cell, 2020
We report genome-wide DNA data for 73 individuals from five archaeological sites across the Bronze and Iron Ages Southern Levant. These individuals, who share the "Canaanite" material culture, can be modeled as descending from two sources: (1) earlier local Neolithic populations and (2) populations related to the Chalcolithic Zagros or the Bronze Age ...
Agranat-Tamir L, Waldman S, Martin MAS, Gokhman D, Mishol N, Eshel T, Cheronet O, Rohland N, Mallick S, Adamski N, Lawson AM, Mah M, Michel M, Oppenheimer J, Stewardson K, Candilio F, Keating D, Gamarra B, Tzur S, Novak M, Kalisher R, Bechar S, Eshed V, Kennett DJ, Faerman M, Yahalom-Mack N, Monge JM, Govrin Y, Erel Y, Yakir B, Pinhasi R, Carmi S, Finkelstein I, Carmel L, Reich D.   +34 more
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Bee products in the prehistoric southern levant: evidence from the lipid organic record [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2021
Beehive products have a rich global history. In the wider Levantine region, bees had a significant role in Egypt and Mesopotamia, and intensive beekeeping was noted in Israel during the Biblical period when apiaries were first identified.
Rivka Chasan, Danny Rosenberg, Florian Klimscha, Ron Beeri, Dor Golan, Ayelet Dayan, Ehud Galili, Cynthianne Spiteri   +7 more
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A new, rare, small-ranged, and endangered mountain snake of the genus Elaphe from the Southern Levant [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2023
The genus Elaphe Fitzinger, 1833 includes 17 species of charismatic, large-sized, non-venomous, Eurasian snakes. In the Western Palearctic, the genus is represented by three species from the Elaphe quatuorlineata group ranging from the Apennine peninsula
Daniel Jablonski, Marco Antônio Ribeiro-Júnior, Evgeniy Simonov, Katarína Šoltys, Shai Meiri   +4 more
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The Emergence of Animal Management in the Southern Levant. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2018
AbstractOur compilation of zooarchaeological data from a series of important archaeological sites spanning the Epipaleolithic through Pre-Pottery Neolithic B periods in the Mediterranean Hills of the southern Levant contributes to major debates about the beginnings of ungulate management in Southwest Asia.
Munro ND, Bar-Oz G, Meier JS, Sapir-Hen L, Stiner MC, Yeshurun R.   +5 more
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There and back again: A zooarchaeological perspective on Early and Middle Bronze Age urbanism in the southern Levant. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2020
Multiple arguments for or against the presence of 'urban' settlements in the Early Bronze Age of the southern Levant have identified the need to compare these settlements against their rural hinterlands through multiple lines of evidence.
Jane S Gaastra, Tina L Greenfield, Haskel J Greenfield   +2 more
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The ground beetle tribe Platynini Bonelli, 1810 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in the southern Levant: dichotomous and interactive identification tools, ecological traits, and distribution [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2021
The carabids of the tribe Platynini from the southern Levant (Egypt: Sinai Peninsula, Israel, Jordan) and adjacent regions of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia are reviewed in terms of species taxonomy, ecological, distributional traits, and ...
Thorsten Assmann, Estève Boutaud, Jörn Buse, Claudia Drees, Ariel-Leib-Leonid Friedman, Ingmar Harry, Fares Khoury, Eylon Orbach, Ittai Renan, Constantin Schmidt, Kilian Schmidt, David W. Wrase, Pascale Zumstein   +12 more
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Fluctuating radiocarbon offsets observed in the southern Levant and implications for archaeological chronology debates [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018
Significance We observe a substantive and fluctuating offset in measured radiocarbon ages between plant material growing in the southern Levant versus the standard Northern Hemisphere radiocarbon calibration dataset derived from trees growing in central ...
Sturt W Manning, Carol Griggs, Brita Lorentzen   +2 more
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A biometric meta-study of the emergence of caprine management in the northern and southern Levant [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Using body size diminution as a proxy for animal management, we compiled and analyzed an extensive database of published caprine biometric data spanning the Epipaleolithic through Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN; 24,000–8400 cal BP) periods to investigate the
Roxanne Lebenzon, Natalie D. Munro
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Identifying Local Learning Communities During the Terminal Palaeolithic in the Southern Levant: Multi-scale 3-D Analysis of Flint Cores

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 2021
A methodology for identifying prehistoric local learning communities is proposed. We wish to test possible relationships among communities based on continuity and variability in lithic reduction sequence technological traits with different visibility and
Francesco Valletta, Itamar Dag, Leore Grosman   +2 more
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