Although the key role of long-distance trade in the transformation of cuisines worldwide has
been well-documented since at least the Roman era, the prehistory of the Eurasian food …

Taking up the challenge to develop a new study of the economic patterns in the ancient
Near East, including what passes for ancient “Israel'(the Persian province of Yehud), this …

The conjunctive use of paleoecological and archaeological data to document past human‐
environment relationships has become a theoretical imperative in the study of ancient …

Grapevine (Vitis vinifera), one of the most important fruit species in the Classical
Mediterranean world, is thought to have been domesticated first in South-Western Asia …

Cities, Change, and Conflict was one of the first texts to embrace the perspective of political
economy as its main explanatory framework, and then complement it with the rich …

This paper presents 2,000 years of settlement and land use within the Lake Pátzcuaro
Basin, Mexico. Three findings challenge the conclusions of previous research. We show (i) …

Stands of relict vegetation, soil horizons, and sedimentary deposits along with
archaeological evidence suggest that during certain time spans within the past twenty …

This paper reviews changes to lifecycle temporality in Southwest Asian plant and animal
domestication, exploring their relationship to long-term processes associated with ancient …

Aim To explore the relationship between modern pollen precipitation and vegetation
patterns in an arid region of the Middle East. Location Data come from the central Jordan Rift …

A common belief is that, unlike today, ancient urban areas developed in a sustainable way
within the environmental limits of local natural resources and the ecosystem's capacity to …