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The Factors Behind the Failure of the Fatimids in Dominating the Northern Regions of Sham"Syria" (4th and 5th Centuries AH) [PDF]

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After defeating the Aghlabids and establishing a state in Ifriqiya, the Fatimids conquered Egypt and launched a military campaign to the Levant to achieve their goals.
Azam Rahmatabady
doaj   +1 more source

The el-Atan Tomb: an Early Bronze IVB female burial in the heart of Bethlehem [PDF]

, 2017
An Early Bronze IVB tomb was discovered by the MOTA-DACH on June 2009 in the city of Bethlehem, nearby the Milk Grotto. Its architectural features, burials and associated funerary equipment are here considered and compared with those of other Early ...
Montanari, Daria, Nigro, Lorenzo
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Ancient harbour infrastructure in the Levant: tracking the birth and rise of new forms of anthropogenic pressure

, 2014
Beirut, Sidon and Tyre were major centres of maritime trade from the Bronze Age onwards. This economic prosperity generated increased pressures on the local environment, through urbanization and harbour development.
Carayon, N., Kaniewski, D., Marriner, N., Morhange, C.   +3 more
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A simulation of the Neolithic transition in Western Eurasia [PDF]

, 2011
Farming and herding were introduced to Europe from the Near East and Anatolia; there are, however, considerable arguments about the mechanisms of this transition.
Ackland, Ammerman, Ammerman, Anderung, Arias, Balaresque, Barker, Begon, Bellwood, Bellwood, Bentley, Bocquet-Appel, Boyd, Braidwood, Braidwood, Bramanti, Carsten Lemmen, Childe, Childe, Childe, Clark, Claussen, Colledge, Courtin, Currat, Davison, Davison, Davison, Detlef Gronenborn, Diamond, Diamond, Dieckmann, Dolukhanov, Dolukhanov, Edmonson, Edwards, Fisher, Flannery, Fuller, Gaillard, Geddès, Gkiasta, Gronenborn, Gronenborn, Gronenborn, Gronenborn, Gronenborn, Gronenborn, Guilaine, Haak, Hartz, Hodder, Kai W. Wirtz, Kaplan, Kisdi, Kotova, Kotova, Kuijt, Kutzbach, Larson, Leemans, Lemmen, Lemmen, Lieth, Luikart, Lüning, Manen, Mauvilly, Merico, Metz, Midgeley, Mithen, Patterson, Peltenburg, Pinhasi, Renfrew, Richards, Roth, Ruddiman, Schier, Sheridan, Smith, Smith, Sokal, Theocharis, Thomas, Weninger, Westropp, Whittle, Willcox, Willcox, Wirtz, Wirtz, Wirtz, Zeder, Zilhão, Zilhão, Zimmermann, Zvelebil, Zvelebil, Zvelebil   +100 more
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Cotton facilitates long‐distance seed dispersal by functioning as nest material for birds

Oikos, EarlyView.
Cotton (Cossypium) fibres, which grow naturally in bolls around the seeds of cotton plants, have been used for centuries to produce fabric. The presumed natural function of cotton is that these lightweight and fluffy fibres may support wind dispersal of the seeds inside.
Roos van der Meer, Lotte L. Koot, Elke Molenaar, Andries K. Janse van Vuuren, Ara Monadjem, Kat Bebbington, Sjouke A. Kingma   +6 more
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A comprehensive checklist of Mediterranean wild edible plants: Diversity, traditional uses, and knowledge gaps

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The use of wild edible plants and the traditional knowledge associated with them are rapidly disappearing across the Mediterranean, with serious consequences for biodiversity, cultural heritage, and regional food security. This study compiles and organizes fragmented information to create the first comprehensive catalogue of these plants across the ...
Benedetta Gori, Tiziana Cossu, Hicham El Zein, Udayangani Liu, Tiziana Ulian, Gianluigi Bacchetta   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Faunal remains from the Upper Paleolithic site of Nahal Rahaf 2 in the southern Judean Desert, Israel

Peer Community Journal, 2022
Nahal Rahaf 2 (NR2) is an Early Upper Paleolithic (ca. 35 kya) rock shelter in the southern Judean Desert in Israel. Two excavation seasons in 2019 and 2020 revealed a stratigraphical sequence composed of intact archaeological surfaces attributed to the ‘
Marom, Nimrod, Gnezdilov, Dariya Lokshin, Shafir, Roee, Barzilai, Omry, Shemer, Maayan   +4 more
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Jamaan at the pass of Bi’rein. An Iron Age IIB-C Ammonite stronghold in central Jordan [PDF]

, 2016
In years 2015-2016 the Zarqa Directorate of the Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan carried out a rescue excavation at the site of Jamaan, an Iron Age IIB-C Ammonite stronghold 16 Km north of ‘Amman.
Gharib, Romeel, Nigro, Lorenzo
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A synthetic eco‐evolutionary proposal for the conservation of wild relatives of the olive tree

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Societal Impact Statement Crop wild relatives (CWR) are valuable sources of genetic diversity for plant breeding. However, the identification of wild untapped genetic resources (i.e., unexploited in crops) is not always straightforward. We propose a methodology to guide the identification and conservation of these resources that integrates both genetic
Andrés Barea‐Márquez, Guillaume Besnard, Miguel González Ximénez‐Embún, Carlos García‐Verdugo, Concepción M. Diez, José Carlos Pérez‐Girón, Rafael Rubio de Casas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vegetation context and climatic limits of the Early Pleistocene hominin dispersal in Europe [PDF]

, 2010
The vegetation and the climatic context in which the first hominins entered and dispersed in Europe during the Early Pleistocene are reconstructed, using literature review and a new climatic simulation. Both in situ fauna and in situ pollen at the twelve
Arpe, K, Leroy, SAG, Mikolajewicz, U
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