This book is concerned with questions on the times when and the places where a range of
plants were domesticated in the classical Old World (ie south-west Asia, Europe and Africa …

The Eastern Mediterranean, located at the meeting between the Mediterranean vegetation
of the Eurasian continent and the desert vegetation of the Saharan-Arabian desert belt, is …

This study presents, for the first time, an environmental reconstruction of a sequence
spanning nearly the entire Mediterranean Epipaleolithic (∼ 22.0–11.9 ka cal. BP). The study …

Olive (Olea europaea L.) was one of the most important fruit trees in the ancient
Mediterranean region and a founder species of horticulture in the Mediterranean Basin …

A core drilled from the Sea of Galilee was subjected to high resolution pollen analysis for the
Bronze and Iron Ages. The detailed pollen diagram (sample/~ 40 yrs) was used to …

The olive was one of the first fruit trees cultivated by man. It has been claimed that cultivation
of the olive began in Israel during the Chalcolithic Period. Careful botanical examination of …

This article presents the role of climate fluctuations in sha** southern Levantine human
history from 3600 to 600 BCE (the Bronze and Iron Ages) as evidenced in palynological …

The apparent near-synchroneity of the beginnings of cultivation in different parts of the world
has led many to invoke a climatic trigger (eg Byrne 1987) or the involvement of “intermediate …

A detailed pollen record for the time interval of∼ 2500–500 BCE, which covers the time
period of the Intermediate Bronze Age (Early Bronze Age IV) into the Iron Ages in the Levant …

The southern Levant is a key region for studying vegetation developments in relation to
climate dynamics and hominin migration processes in the past due to the sensitivity of the …