“Founder crops” v. wild plants: assessing the plant-based diet of the last hunter-gatherers in southwest Asia

A Arranz-Otaegui, LG Carretero, J Roe… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Natufian culture (c. 14.6–11.5 ka cal. BP) represents the last hunter-gatherer
society that inhabited southwest Asia before the development of plant food production. It has …

The climate of the Younger Dryas as a boundary for Einkorn domestication

S Haldorsen, H Akan, B Çelik, M Heun - Vegetation History and …, 2011 - Springer
The domestication of the Neolithic founder crops of the Near East has recently been a topic
of debate particularly with respect to how rapidly the domestication of these crops occurred …

Oasis or mirage? Assessing the role of abrupt climate change in the prehistory of the southern Levant

LA Maher, EB Banning, M Chazan - Cambridge Archaeological …, 2011 - cambridge.org
Few prehistoric developments have received as much attention as the origins of agriculture
and its associated societal implications in the Near East. A great deal of this research has …

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 …

[LIVRE][B] From Arabia to the Pacific: How our species colonised Asia

R Dennell - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Drawing upon invasion biology and the latest archaeological, skeletal and environment
evidence, From Arabia to the Pacific documents the migration of humans into Asia, and …

Predictive modelling in paleoenvironmental reconstruction: the micromammals of Manot Cave, Israel

O Comay, L Weissbrod, T Dayan - Journal of Human Evolution, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper describes the micromammalian remains and paleoenvironment of the Upper
Paleolithic sequence of Manot Cave (46-34 ka), southern Levant. Micromammal remains …

Not just a crossroad: population dynamics and changing material culture in southwestern Asia during the Late Pleistocene

K Bretzke, NJ Conard - Current Anthropology, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Southwestern Asia plays an essential part in all models that have been developed to explain
how and when modern humans colonized Eurasia. Given the rich record of Southwestern …

[LIVRE][B] Wild harvest: Plants in the hominin and pre-agrarian human worlds

K Hardy, LK Martens - 2016 - books.google.com
Plants are fundamental to life; they are used by all human groups and most animals. They
provide raw materials, vitamins and essential nutrients and we could not survive without …

A history of olive and grape cultivation in Southwest Asia using charcoal and seed remains

K Deckers, S Riehl, J Meadows, V Tumolo… - PLOS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Evaluating archaeobotanical data from over 3.9 million seeds and 124,300 charcoal
fragments across 330 archaeological site phases in Southwest Asia, we reconstruct the …

Archaeobotany of el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel (Israel): insights into plant exploitation along the Natufian sequence

C Belli, V Caracuta, D Nadel, E Boaretto… - Vegetation History and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Epipalaeolithic Natufian Culture (latest Pleistocene Levant, ca. 15,000–11,500
cal bp) represents relatively sedentary and complex foraging societies, but the plant …