A diachronic reconstruction of the Northern Mesopotamian landscape (4th to 2nd millennia BCE) from three separate sources of evidence

Agricultural resources in the Bronze Age city of Tel Lachish

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Archaeobotanical Archiving--Response

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Archaeobotanical evidence for the interrelationship of agricultural decision-making and climate change in the ancient Near East

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Archäobotanische Funde aus der Kampagne 2009 in Qubur al-Walaydah

Carthamus species in the ancient Near East and south-eastern Europe: archaeobotanical evidence for their distribution and use as a source of oil

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Changing growing conditions for crops during the Near Eastern Bronze Age (3000–1200 BC): the stable carbon isotope evidence

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Climate and agriculture in the ancient Near East: a synthesis of the archaeobotanical and stable carbon isotope evidence

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Comment on van Geel et al., Journal of Archaeological Science 31 (2004) “Climate change and the expansion of the Scythian culture after 850 BC: a hypothesis”

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Drought stress variability in ancient Near Eastern agricultural systems evidenced by δ13C in barley grain

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Emergence of agriculture in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains of Iran

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Fluvial environmental contexts for archaeological sites in the Upper Khabur basin (northeastern Syria)

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Genomic analysis of 6,000-year-old cultivated grain illuminates the domestication history of barley

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Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on Woodland in Northern Syria (4th–2nd Mill. BC): Evidence from Charcoal Assemblages and Oak Measurements

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Local Holocene environmental indicators in Upper Mesopotamia: Pedogenic carbonate record vs. archaeobotanical data and archaeoclimatological models

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Mid-Holocene vegetation change in the Troad (W Anatolia): man-made or natural?

Mid-To-Late Holocene Agricultural System Transformations in the Northern Fertile Crescent: A Review of the Archaeobotanical, Geoarchaeological, and Philological Evidence

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New Radiocarbon Dates from Tel Kabri Support a High Middle Bronze Age Chronology

Oxygen isotopic composition of fruit carbonate in Lithospermeae and its potential for paleoclimate research in the Mediterranean

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Plant cultivation under climatic fluctuations during the sixth and fifth millennia BC at Tell Tawila (northern Syria) ⬇️

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Plant use and local vegetation patterns during the second half of the Late Pleistocene in southwestern Germany

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Plant use in three Pre-Pottery Neolithic sites of the northern and eastern Fertile Crescent: a preliminary report

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Pollen, plant macrofossil and charcoal records for palaeovegetation reconstruction in the Mediterranean-Black Sea Corridor since the Last Glacial Maximum

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Radiocarbon Evidence for the Early Bronze Age Levant: The Site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon) and the End of the Early Bronze III Period

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Radiocarbon age of carbonate in fruits of Lithospermum from the early Bronze Age settlement of Hirbet ez-Zeraq?n (Jordan)

Reconstructing subsistence practices: taphonomic constraints and the interpretation of wild plant remains at aceramic Neolithic Chogha Golan, Iran

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Reply to Maxwell et al.: Stable isotopes and their potential for interpreting archaeobotanical remains

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Resilience at the Transition to Agriculture: The Long-Term Landscape and Resource Development at the Aceramic Neolithic Tell Site of Chogha Golan (Iran)

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Resource Exploitation of the Upper Khabur Basin (NE Syria) during the 3rd Millennium BC

Stable isotopes in archaeobotanical research

Suitability of biogenic carbonate of Lithospermum fruits for 14C dating

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Supra-regional trade networks and the economic potential of Iron Age II sites in the southern Levant

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The Early Bronze Age/Middle Bronze Age transition and the aquifer geography in the Near East

The Role of the Local Environment in the Slow Pace of Emerging Agriculture in the Fertile Crescent

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Upper Palaeolithic archaeobotany of Ghar-e Boof cave, Iran: a case study in site disturbance and methodology

Using new morphological criteria to identify domesticated emmer wheat at the aceramic Neolithic site of Chogha Golan (Iran)

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Variability in ancient Near Eastern environmental and agricultural development

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Vegetation development and human occupation in the Damascus region of southwestern Syria from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene