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Metal provenance of Iron Age Hacksilber hoards in the southern Levant

, 2021
Hacksilber facilitated trade and transactions from the beginning of the second millennium BCE until the late fourth century BCE in the southern Levant. Here we demonstrate the use of new, data-driven statistical approaches to interpret high-precision Pb ...
L. Gentelli, J. Blichert‐Toft, G. Davis, H. Gitler, F. Albarède   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Nile Delta as a Center of Cultural Interaction Between Upper Egypt and the Southern Levant in the 4th Millennium BC

Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization, 2014
The societies occupying the Nile Delta in the 4th millennium BC were not cut off from the neighboring regions of Upper Egypt and the Southern Levant.
Agnieszka Mączyńska
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An 11 600 year-old communal structure from the Neolithic of southern Jordan [PDF]

, 2011
The authors present a new type of communal and monumental structure from the earliest Neolithic in western Asia. A complement to the decorated stone pillars erected at G¨obekli Tepe in the north, ‘Wadi Faynan 16 Structure O75’ in the southern Levant
Bill Finlayson, Jenkins, Emma, Maricevic, Darko, Sam Smith, Smith, S., Finlayson, Bill, Maricevic, D., Darko Maričević, Jenkins, Emma L., Mohammed Najjar, Emma Jenkins, Mithen, Steve, Jenkins, E., Najjar, M., Steven J Mithen, Mithen, Steven J., Smith, Sam, Najjar, Mohammed, Mithen, S.J., Finlayson, B.   +19 more
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A glimpse of an ancient agricultural ecosystem based on remains of micromammals in the Byzantine Negev Desert [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2018
It is widely believed that Byzantine agriculture in the Negev Desert (fourth to seventh century Common Era; CE), with widespread construction of terraces and dams, altered local landscapes.
Tal Fried, Lior Weissbrod, Yotam Tepper, Guy Bar-Oz   +3 more
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Ancient trash mounds unravel urban collapse a century before the end of Byzantine hegemony in the southern Levant. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2019
Significance Historians have long debated the role of climate in the rise and fall of empires of the 1st millennium CE. Drastic territorial contraction of the Byzantine Empire, societal decline, and beginning of the European Middle Ages have generally ...
Bar-Oz G, Weissbrod L, Erickson-Gini T, Tepper Y, Malkinson D, Benzaquen M, Langgut D, Dunseth ZC, Butler DH, Shahack-Gross R, Roskin J, Fuks D, Weiss E, Marom N, Ktalav I, Blevis R, Zohar I, Farhi Y, Filatova A, Gorin-Rosen Y, Yan X, Boaretto E.   +21 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Human Dental Microwear From Ohalo II (22,500–23,500 cal BP), Southern Levant [PDF]

, 2007
Dietary hardness and abrasiveness are inferred from human dental microwear at Ohalo II, a late Upper Palaeolithic site (22,500–23,500 cal BP) in the southern Levant.
Patrick Mahoney, Mahoney, Patrick
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Opium trade and use during the Late Bronze Age: Organic residue analysis of ceramic vessels from the burials of Tel Yehud, Israel

Archaeometry, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares, Eriola Jakoel, Ron Be’eri, Oded Lipschits, Ronny Neumann, Yuval Gadot   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hegemony for Beginners: Egyptian Activity in the Southern Levant during the Second Half of the Fourth Millennium B.C.

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2012
After a modest start in the mid-20th century, thousands of Protodynastic Egyptian objects have been unearthed and identified as such in the Southern Levant, including serekh-signs of several Dynasty 0 (Narmer, “Double Falcon”, Ny-Hor, Iry-Hor, Ka), and ...
Branislav Anđelković
doaj   +1 more source

Marmora Bizantina: A digital corpus of marble finds from the southern Levant [PDF]

Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2023
Archaeological excavations in the Levant have provided a significant number of marble finds dated to the early Byzantine period (4th – mid-7th century CE).
Mariusz Gwiazda
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Ancient technology and punctuated change: Detecting the emergence of the Edomite Kingdom in the Southern Levant. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2019
While the punctuated equilibrium model has been employed in paleontological and archaeological research, it has rarely been applied for technological and social evolution in the Holocene.
Ben-Yosef E, Liss B, Yagel OA, Tirosh O, Najjar M, Levy TE.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources