Carbon stable isotope analysis of cereal remains as a way to reconstruct water availability: preliminary results [PDF]
, 2011 Reconstructing past water availability, both as rainfall and irrigation, is important to answer questions about the way society reacts to climate and its changes and the role of irrigation in the development of social complexity.
AM Rosen +97 more
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Fat residue and use-wear found on Acheulian biface and scraper associated with butchered elephant remains at the site of Revadim, Israel [PDF]
, 2015 The archaeological record indicates that elephants must have played a significant role in early human diet and culture during Palaeolithic times in the Old World.
A., Zupancich +5 more
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Rediscovering Phoenicians in their Homeland from the Perspective of Iron Age Coroplastic Art
Les Carnets de l’ACoSt, 2018 The collective imagery of the Phoenicians is well known both within and outside of the academic world in large part because of the representations of daily life in their coroplastic art.
Barbara Bolognani
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Fire, climate and the origins of agriculture: micro-charcoal records of biomass burning during the Last Glacial Interglacial Transition in Southwest Asia [PDF]
, 2010 This study investigates changes in climate, vegetation, wildfire and human activity in Southwest Asia during the transition to Neolithic agriculture between ca. 16 and ca. 9 ka.
Alperson-Afil +80 more
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Phanerozoic Large Igneous Province, Petroleum System, and Source Rock Links
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 191-228., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Steven C. Bergman +2 more
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The threat to Israel’s identity in Deuteronomy: Mesopotamian or Levantine? [PDF]
, 2012 Deuteronomy contains a number of indications which locate its interests in the Levant rather than in Mesopotamia. This observation challenges two major theories of the book’s origins: Deuteronomy as pre-exilic attempt to subvert Assyrian imperial power ...
Crouch, C.L.
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A Late Pleistocene Wetland Setting in the Arid Jurf ed Darawish Region in Central Jordan
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 Current conditions in the southern Levant are hyperarid, and local communities rely on fossil subsurface water resources. The timing of more favourable wetter periods and also their spatial characteristics are not yet well constrained.
Steffen Mischke +7 more
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Origin and diffusion of human Y chromosome haplogroup J1-M267
Scientific Reports, 2021 Human Y chromosome haplogroup J1-M267 is a common male lineage in West Asia. One high-frequency region—encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, southern Mesopotamia, and the southern Levant—resides ~ 2000 km away from the other one found in the Caucasus.
Hovhannes Sahakyan +21 more
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Judean Pillar Figurines and Ethnic Identity in the Shadow of Assyria [PDF]
, 2012 An examination of Judean Pillar Figurines in relation to cultural discourse and identity construction in the late Iron-Age ...
Ian Wilson
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Leave your Stamp: Reconstruction of the Scarab Production Chain
EXARC Journal, 2023 Scarabs are beetle-shaped seals originating in Egypt during the third millennium BC. They were first imported into the southern Levant during the early second millennium BC (Middle Bronze Age I), leading to a flourishing of local production in the ...
Natasha Solodenko-Vernovsky +5 more
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