Geomorphic, environmental, and archeological significance of Last Glacial Maximum to middle Holocene dune damming, northwestern Negev dunefield margin, Israel

L Robins, J Roskin, O Marder, L Edeltin, LP Yu… - Quaternary Science …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Aeolian-Fluvial (AF) stratigraphic sequences record the bilateral impact of aeolian and
fluvial systems upon each other. Along dunefield margins, AF sequences document shifts …

The Archaeology of Early Cities:“What Is the City but the People?”

M Fernández-Götz, ME Smith - Annual Review of Anthropology, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
The archaeology of early urbanism is a growing and dynamic field of research, which has
benefited in recent years from numerous advances at both a theoretical and a …

Plagues upon the Earth: disease and the course of human history

K Harper - 2021‏ - torrossa.com
Introduction microorganisms and macrohistory one of the chief blessings of living in the
modern world is supposed to be that the risk of dying from an infectious disease has become …

The rise and fall of viticulture in the Late Antique Negev Highlands reconstructed from archaeobotanical and ceramic data

D Fuks, G Bar-Oz, Y Tepper, T Erickson-Gini… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - pnas.org
The international scope of the Mediterranean wine trade in Late Antiquity raises important
questions concerning sustainability in an ancient international economy and offers a …

[HTML][HTML] Global wood anatomical perspective on the onset of the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA) in the mid-6th century CE

U Büntgen, A Crivellaro, D Arseneault, M Baillie… - Science Bulletin, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Linked to major volcanic eruptions around 536 and 540 CE, the onset of the Late Antique
Little Ice Age has been described as the coldest period of the past two millennia. The exact …

Environment and horticulture in the Byzantine Negev Desert, Israel: sustainability, prosperity and enigmatic decline

D Langgut, Y Tepper, M Benzaquen… - Quaternary …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
This study presents a comprehensive paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Byzantine
and Early Islamic western Negev Desert communities during the 4th-8th centuries CE. The …

A model-based approach to the tempo of “collapse”: The case of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

RJ DiNapoli, TM Rieth, CP Lipo, TL Hunt - Journal of Archaeological …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) presents a quintessential case where the tempo of
investment in monumentality is central to debates regarding societal collapse, with the …

A new FTIR method for estimating the firing temperature of ceramic bronze-casting moulds from early China

B Yan, S Liu, ML Chastain, S Yang, J Chen - Scientific Reports, 2021‏ - nature.com
Intricate ceramic bronze-casting moulds are among the most significant archaeological
remains found at Bronze Age metallurgical workshops in China. Firing temperature was …

Settlement, environment, and climate change in SW Anatolia: Dynamics of regional variation and the end of Antiquity

MJ Jacobson, J Pickett, AL Gascoigne, D Fleitmann… - Plos one, 2022‏ - journals.plos.org
This paper develops a regional dataset of change at 381 settlements for Lycia-Pamphylia in
southwest Anatolia (Turkey) from volume 8 of the Tabula Imperii Byzantini–a compilation of …

Unprecedented yet gradual nature of first millennium CE intercontinental crop plant dispersal revealed in ancient Negev desert refuse

D Fuks, Y Melamed, D Langgut, T Erickson-Gini… - Elife, 2023‏ - elifesciences.org
Global agro-biodiversity has resulted from processes of plant migration and agricultural
adoption. Although critically affecting current diversity, crop diffusion from Classical antiquity …