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Ecological-cultural inheritance in the wetlands: the non-linear transition to plant food production in the southern Levant

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2023
The paper discusses a multi-proxy archaeobotanical dataset from the published macrobotanical and microbotanical research of 19 Epipalaeolithic sites over a period of 13.5 ka (ca. 25-11.5 ka cal bp ) in the southern Levant.
Monica N. Ramsey
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“A land whose stones are iron...”—Iron ore sources in the Southern Levant

Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, 2023
Recent discoveries of iron production remains in multiple Iron Age sites throughout the Southern Levant indicate the significance of iron production in the region during this time.
Adi Eliyahu-Behar, Yoav Ben Dor, Michael Brauns, Oriana Adi Shulman, Yoav Avni, Ann E. Killebrew, O. Tirosh, N. Yahalom-Mack   +7 more
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The 4.2 ka BP event in the Levant [PDF]

Climate of the Past, 2018
The 4.2 ka BP event is defined as a phase of environmental stress characterized by severe and prolonged drought of global extent. The event is recorded from the North Atlantic through Europe to Asia and has led scientists to evoke a 300 ...
D. Kaniewski, D. Kaniewski, D. Kaniewski, N. Marriner, R. Cheddadi, J. Guiot, E. Van Campo, E. Van Campo   +7 more
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The Emergence of Terrace Farming in the Arid Zone of the Levant—Past Perspectives and Future Implications

Land, 2022
Terrace farming installations occupy vast desert areas in the Southern Levant. Their construction in harsh environments raises critical questions focusing on the natural, political, and economic circumstances promoting their construction and operation ...
Yoav Avni
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The Early Bronze IV — Middle Bronze I transition in the southern Levant: analysis and assessment

Levant, 2022
The transition between the Early Bronze Age IV and the Middle Bronze Age in the southern Levant remains poorly understood, stemming in part from traditional approaches to the problems that frame it in terms of exogenous cultural origins and disjuncture ...
Susan L. Cohen
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Extreme Rainfall Indices in Southern Levant and Related Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Patterns: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis

Water, 2022
This study aims to provide a comprehensive spatio-temporal analysis of the annual and seasonal extreme rainfall indices over the southern Levant from 1970 to 2020.
Ala A. M. Salameh, M. G. Ojeda, M. J. Esteban‐Parra, Y. Castro‐Díez, S. Gámiz-Fortis   +4 more
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Between Rocks and ‘High Places’: On Religious Architecture in the Iron Age Southern Levant

Religions, 2021
In this paper we examine why common methodologies for determining ‘religious architecture’ do not account for the diverse and fluid ways in which religious behavior can be expressed.
Diederik J. H. Halbertsma, Bruce Routledge   +1 more
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Human dispersals out of Africa via the Levant [PDF]

, 2023
Homo sapiens dispersed from Africa into Eurasia multiple times in the Middle and Late Pleistocene. The route, across northeastern Africa into the Levant, is a viable terrestrial corridor, as the present harsh southern Levant would probably have been ...
John D. Jansen, Ou, Xianjiao, Petraglia, Michael D, Jansen, John D, Al-Saqarat, Bety S, Paul A. Carling, Carling, Paul A, Hua Tu, Abbas, Mahmoud, Carling, Paul, Alqudah, Mohammad, Jansen, John, Xianjiao Ou, Lai, Zhongping, Mahmoud Abbas, Mohammad Alqudah, Xiaolin Xu, Mu’ayyad Al Hseinat, Tu, Hua, Al Hseinat, Mu’ayyad, Xu, Xiaolin, Al Hseinat, Mu'ayyad, Michael D. Petraglia, Bety S. Al-Saqarat, Zhongping Lai, Petraglia, Michael, Al-Saqarat, Bety   +26 more
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The Caucasian Toad, Bufo verrucosissimus (Pallas, 1814) in the Levant: evidence from mitochondrial DNA [PDF]

Herpetozoa, 2019
We present the first molecular analysis of the Bufo bufo (Linnaeus, 1758) complex population in the Levant. This complex contains four species distributed through the Western Palearctic.
Daniel Jablonski, Riyad A. Sadek
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Constructing community in the Neolithic of southern Jordan: Quotidian practice in communal architecture. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
The emergence of food production during the earliest Neolithic of the Near East was accompanied by profound changes in the ways in which societies were organized. Elaborate and multi-stage mortuary practices involving the removal, caching, and plastering
Cheryl A Makarewicz, Bill Finlayson
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