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The Aqueducts and Water Supply of Ancient Jerusalem. [PDF]

Ground Water
Abstract Jerusalem, a city held sacred by three of the world's great religions, is located in a semi‐arid climate, and its occupation through the millennia has only been made possible by the construction of an extensive and ingenious water supply infrastructure. The settlement of Jerusalem was first made possible by water from the Gihon Spring.
Deming D.
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Pomological and Biochemical Properties of Blackberry (<i>Rubus fruticocus</i>) Genotypes. [PDF]

Food Sci Nutr
In this study, blackberry genotypes naturally grown in Tunceli were examined, and those with superior characteristics were identified. The results showed significant differences among the genotypes in terms of fruit weight, length, width, color values, total soluble solids (TSS), titratable acidity, vitamin C, antioxidant activity, organic acids, and ...
Dogan H, Aglar E, Ozturk B, Tekin O, Alan D, Sumbul A.   +5 more
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The Storm-Gods of the Ancient Near East: Summary, Synthesis, Recent Studies. Part II [PDF]

, 2007
In many regions of the ancient Near East, not least in Upper Mesopotamia, Syria and Anatolia where agriculture relied mainly on rainfall, storm-gods ranked among the most prominent gods in the local panthea or were even regarded as divine kings, ruling ...
Schwemer, Daniel
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The Middle Eastern Biodiversity Network: Generating and sharing knowledge for ecosystem management and conservation [PDF]

, 2009
Despite prevailing arid conditions, the diversity of terrestrial and freshwater biota in the Middle East is amazingly high and marine biodiversity is among the highest on Earth.
Al-Jumaily, Masaa, Bariche, Michel, Khalaf, Maroof, Krupp, Friedhelm, Malek, Masoumeh, Streit, Bruno   +5 more
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Review of The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture by Jacques Cauvin, translated by Trevor Watkins (New Studies in Archaeology). [PDF]

, 2014
When, almost a century ago, Raphael Pumpelly put forward the ‘oasis theory’ for the origins of farming in the Near East, his was one of the first in a long series of explanations which looked to environment and ecology as the cause of the shift from ...
Bar-Yosef, Ofer, Cauvin, Jacques, Hodder, Ian, Rollefson, Gary O., Watkins, Trevor   +4 more
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An overview of Mesopotamian bronze metallurgy during the 3rd millennium BC [PDF]

, 2005
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ADAMS, F, Adriaens, Mieke, DE RYCK, I
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The Natufian Culture and the Origin of the Neolithic in the Levant [PDF]

, 2014
Anthropolog
Bar-Yosef, Ofer, Valla, F.
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What can lithics tell us about food production during the transition to farming? Exploring harvesting practices and cultural changes during the neolithic in Southwest Asia: a view from Qminas (north‐western Syria)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the continuity and change in harvesting practices between the Late Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic at Qminas, north‐western Levant, through a traceological analysis of flint sickles. By combining qualitative traceological analysis with quantitative functional approaches, we demonstrate that ...
Fiona Pichon, Osamu Maeda, Juan José Ibáñez Estévez, Patricia Anderson   +3 more
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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, B Finlayson, BD Marino, C Grigson, C Körner, C Körner, C Migowski, DH Price, DW McCreery, E Galili, E Jenkins, E Kaptijn, E Peltenburg, Emma Jenkins, F Braemer, FB Salisbury, G Fiorentino, G Fiorentino, G Jones, G Palumbo, G Philip, G Rollefson, GD Farquhar, GD Farquhar, GD Farquhar, GD Farquhar, GK Gillmore, GR Stewart, Gundula Müldner, H Helbaek, H Weiss, HR Stokes, I Kuijt, J Codron, J Doorenbos, J Hoefs, J Mabry, J Mabry, J Sealy, JL Araus, JL Araus, JL Araus, JL Araus, JL Araus, JN Postgate, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Oleson, JR Ehleringer, JW Laundré, K Bastert, K Prag, KT Hubick, KW Butzer, L Cabrera-Bosquet, LT Tieszen, M Aguilera, M Charles, M Davies, M Harrower, M Madella, M Staubwasser, MH O’Leary, MW Ertsen, N Roberts, NK Fageria, P Monneveux, P Wright, Pascal Flohr, PB deMenocal, PG Whitehead, PMMG Akkermans, R Matthews, R Shaheen, RB Austin, RC Hunt, RS Wenke, RTJ Cappers, S Fujii, S Fujii, S Helms, S Mithen, S Riehl, S Riehl, SJ Bourke, SW Helms, TE Dawson, TE Levy, THE Heaton, THE Heaton, TW Boutton, TW Boutton, U Bellwald, VL Scarborough, Y Garfinkel   +97 more
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An Archaeometric Approach to Reveal Organic Compounds via GC‐MS Analyses of Two Discovered Incense Burners at Daba Al‐Bayah

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi, Federica Spagnoli, Vittorio Vinciguerra, Stefania Garzoli   +3 more
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