Archaeobotanical Reports from the Levant
(Israel, Jordan, Lebanon) and Related Items

Albert, R.M., S. Weiner, O. Bar-Yosef, and L. Meignen
2000 Phytoliths in the Middle Paleolithic Deposits of Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel, Israel: Study of the Plant Materials Used for Fuel and Other Purposes. Journal of Archaeological Science 27: 931-947.
Levant//Kebara Cave//Middle Paleolithic//phyto

Albert, R.M., O. Bar-Yosef, L. Meignen, and S. Weiner
2003 Quantitative Phytolith Study of Hearths from the Natufian and Middle Paleolithic Levels of Hayonim Cave (Galilee, Israel). Journal of Archaeological Science 30:461-480.
Levant//Hayonim//Mid Paleo//Epipaleo//phyto

Albert, Rosa M., Steve Weiner, Ofer Bar-Yosef, and Liliane Meignen
2000 Phytoliths of the Middle Palaeolithic Deposits of Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel, Israel: Study of the Plant Materials Used for Fuel and Other Purposes. Journal of Archaeological Science 27: 931-947.
Levant//Kebara//Middle Paleolithic//phyto

Allen, Susan E.
2002 Palaeoethnobotany: Preliminary Results. In Sha'ar Hagolan I, by Y. Garfinkel and M.A. Miller, pp. 236-246. Oxbow Books, Oxford.
Levant//Sha'ar Hagolan//7M//6M

Austin, P.
2007 The Wood Charcoal. In The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Evaluation of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Site of WF16 and Archaeological Surveys of Wadis Faynan, Guwayr and al Bustan, eds. B. Finlayson and S. Mithen, pp. 408-419. Council for British Research in the Levant, London.
Levant//WF16//PPNA

Baas, J.
1980 Ein bedeutsamer botanischer Fund der Gattung Echium Linne aus Kamid el-Loz. In Bericht über die Ergebnisse in Kamid el-Loz in den Jähren 1968 bis 1970, ed. R. Hachmann. Pp. 111-115. Saarbrucker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde. Bonn.
Lebanon //Kamid el-Loz//Late Bronze//Echium

Baierle, H. U., W. Frey, C. Jagiella and H. Kurschner
1989 Die Brennstoffressourcen in Raum Fenan (Wadi Araba, Jordanien) und die bei der Küpfererzverhuttung verwendeten Brennstoffe. In Old World Archaeometallurgy, eds. A. Hauptmann, E. Pernicka, and G.A. Wagner. Pp. 213-222. Deutsche Bergbau-Museum, Bochum.
Jordan //Wadi Feinan//3M//2M//1M//AD

Bar-Yosef, Ofer and Mordechai Kislev
1989 Early Farming Communities in the Jordan Valley. In Foraging and Farming, The Evolution of Plant Exploitation, eds. D.R. Harris and G.C. Hillman. Pp. 632-642. Unwin Hyman, London.
survey

Bar-Yosef, Ofer, Ari Gopher, Eitan Tchernov, and Mordechai E. Kislev
1991 Netiv Hagdud: An Early Neolithic Village Site in the Jordan Valley. Journal of Field Archaeology 18: 405-424.
Israel//Netiv Hagdud//PPNA

Baruch, Uri and Nigel Goring-Morris
1997 The Arboreal Vegetation of the Central Negev Highlands, Israel, at the End of the Pleistocene: Evidence from Archaeological Charred Wood Remains. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 6: 249-259.
Israel//Nahal Neqarot//Saflulim//Abu Salem//Ramat Harif//Ma'aleh Ramon East//Epipaleo//12M-9M

Behre, Karl-Ernst
1970 Kulturpflanzenreste aus Kamid el-Loz. In Bericht über die Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen in Kamid el-Loz (Libanon) in den Jähren 1966 und 1967, ed. Rolf Hachmann. Pp. 59-69. Saarbrucker Beiträge zur Altertumskunde. Bonn.
Lebanon//Kamid-el-Loz//1M

Bogaard, Amy, and Michael Charles
1999 Addendum: Summary of Archaeobotanical Work at al-Mudaybi'. In "Al-Karak Resources Project 1997: Excavations at Khirbat al-Mudaybi'," by G. Mattingly et al. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 43: 127-144 [140-143].
Jordan//Khirbat al-Mudaybi'//AD

Borojevic, Ksenija
2006 Archaeobotanical Finds. Chapter 27. In Megiddo IV: the 1998-2002 Seasons, eds. I. Finkelstein, D. Ussishkin and B. Halpern, pp.519-541. Monograph Series of the Institute of Archaeology University of Tel-Aviv No. 24.
Levant//Megiddo//3M//2M//1M

Buxo i Capdevila, Ramon
1999 Reflections on Paleobotanical Remains from Hayonim Terrace (Upper Galilee). In Prehistory of Agriculture, New Experimental and Ethnographic Approaches, ed. P.C. Anderson, pp. 153-155. Institute of Archaeology Monograph 40. University of California, Los Angeles.
Israel//Hayonim//Natuf

Cahill, Jane, Karl Reinhard, David Tarler and Peter Warnock
1991 Scientists Examine Remains of Ancient Bathroom. Biblical Archaeology Review 17(3): 64-69.
Israel//1M//Jerusalem

Cartwright, C.R.
1994 The Archaeobotanical Remains from the 1993 Season. In J.N. Tubb and P.G. Dorrell (eds.), "Tell es-Sa'idiyeh 1993: Interim Report on the Seventh Season of Excavations." Palestine Exploration Quarterly 126: 66-67.
Jordan//Tell es-Sa'idiyeh//3M

Cartwright, C.R.
1996 Preliminary Report on the Archaeobotanical Material from the 1995 Season of Excavations at Tell es-Sa'idiyeh, Jordan. InJ.N. Tubb et al. (eds.), "Interim report on the Eighth (1995) Season of Excavations at Tell es-Sa'idiyeh." Palestine Exploration Quarterly 128: 39-40.
Jordan//Tell es-Sa'idiyeh//3M

Cartwright, C.R.
1997 Interim Report on the Archaeobotanical Remains from the 1996 Season of Excavations of the Early Bronze Age Complex at Tell es-Sa'idiyeh, Jordan. InTubb et al. (eds.), "Interim Report on the Ninth Season of Excavations at Tell es-Sa'idiyeh, Jordan." Palestine Exploration Quarterly 129: 72-75.
Jordan//Tell es-Sa'idiyeh//3M

Cartwright, C. R. & Clapham, A.
1993 The Archaeobotanical Remains from Tell es-Sa'idiyeh, Jordan. In Tubb and P.G. Dorrell (eds.), "Tell es-Sa'idiyeh 1993: Interim Report on the Sixth Season of Excavations." Palestine Exploration Quarterly 125: 73-74.
Jordan//Tell es-Sa'idiyeh//3M//2M//1M

Charles, M.P., and C.F. Hoppe
1997-1998 The Archaeobotanical Remains. In "Mamluk Khirbat Faris," by A.M. McQuitty et al. The Mamluks and the Early Ottoman Period in Bilad al-Sham: History and Archaeology. Aram 9-10: 181-226 [194-198, 223-226].
Jordan //Khirbat Faris//AD

Chernoff, Miriam C.
1988 The Archaeobotanical Material from Tel el Ifshar. Ph.D. Dissertation, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
Israel//Tel Ifshar//3M//2M

Chernoff, Miriam C.
1992 Natural Resource Use in an Ancient Near East Farming Community. Agricultural History 66: 213-220ff.
Israel//Tell Ifshar//2M//1M

Chernoff, Miriam C. , and Samuel M. Paley
1998 Dynamics of Cereal Production at Tell el Ifshar during the Middle Bronze Age. Journal of Field Archaeology 25:397-416
Israel//Tell el Ifshar//2M

Colledge, Susan M.
1994 In "Prehistoric Environment and Settlement in the Azraq Basin: An Interim Report on the 1987 and 1988 Excavation Seasons," A.N. Garrard et al. Levant 26: 73-109 (100-105).
Jordan//Jilat //PPNB//Neolithic//8M//7M//6M

Colledge, S. (and J. Hather)
1998 Dhuweila: Botanical Remains. The Harra and the Hamad-Excavations and Explorations in Eastern Jordan, vol. 1, by A.V.G. Betts et al., pp. 185-189 + Pls 13, 14. Sheffield Archaeological Monographs 9. Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield.
Jordan//Dhuweila//PPNB//Neolithic

Colledge, Susan M.
2001 Plant Exploitation on Epipaleolithic and Early Neolithic Sites in the Levant. BAR International Series 986. Oxford.
Jordan//Wadi Hammeh //Epipaleo//Neolithic//Azraq

Crawford, Patricia
1987 Food for a Roman Legion: The Plant Remains from el-Lejjun. In The Roman Frontier in Central Jordan, Interim Report on the Limes Arabicus Project, 1980-1985, ed. S. Thomas Parker. Pp. 691-704. BAR International Series 340 (ii). Oxford.
Jordan //el-Lejjun//Roman

Crawford, Patricia, Oystein Sakala LaBianca and Robert B. Stewart
1976 The Flotation Remains, A Preliminary Report. In Heshbon 1974, The Fourth Campaign at Tell Hesban, R.S. Boraas and L.T. Geraty. Pp. 185-187. Andrews University Monographs Studies in Religion 9. Andrews University Press, Berrien Springs, Michigan.
Jordan//Tell Heshbon//1M//AD

de Vartavan, C.
1991 Appendix B. Preliminary Report on the Plant Remains from Sataf. Levant 23: 50-52.
Israel//Sataf//4M//3M

Dollfus, G., Z. Kafifi, J. Rewerski, N. Vaillant, E. Coqueugniot, J. Desse, and R. Neef
1988 Abu Hamid, An Early Fourth Millennium Site in the Jordan Valley, Preliminary Results. In The Prehistory of Jordan: The State of Research in 1986, eds. A.N. Garrard and H.G. Gebel. Pp. 567-601. BAR International Series 396, Oxford.
Jordan//Abu Hamid//5M

Edwards, P. C., S.J. Bourke, S.J., S.M. Colledge, J. Head, P.G. Macumber
1988 Late Pleistocene Prehistory in Wadi al-Hammeh, Jordan Valley. In The Prehistory of Jordan: The State of Research in 1986, eds. A. N. Garrard and H.G. Gebel. Pp. 525-565. BAR International Series 396, Oxford.
Jordan//Wadi Hammeh 27//Epipaleolithic

Engel, T.
1992 Nouvelles recherches sur des charbons de bois du Chalcolithique, de l'âge de Bronze et de l'âge du Fer de Fenan/Wadi Araba, Jordanie. In Les charbons de bois, les anciens écosystèmes et le rôle de l'homme, ed. J.-L. Vernet. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 139, Actualités botaniques 2/3/4: 553-563.
Jordan//Fenan //4M//3M//2M//1M

Engel, T.
1992 Charcoal Remains from an Iron Age Copper Smelting Slag Heap at Feinan, Wadi Arabah (Jordan). Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 2: 205-211.
Jordan//Fenan //1M

Feinbrunn, Naomi
1938 New Data on Some Cultivated Plants and Weeds of Early Bronze Age in Palestine. Palestine Journal of Botany, Jerusalem Series 1: 238-240. Israel//Beit Shan //3M

Fish, Suzanne K.
1989 Appendix B. The Beidha Pollen Record. In The Natufian Encampment at Beidha, Late Pleistocene Adaptation in the Southern Levant, Brian F. Byrd. Pp. 91-96. Jutland Archaeological Society Publications 23(1). Jutland Archaeological Society, Aarhus.
Jordan //Beidha//Natufian

Frey, W., E. Gerlach, and H. Kurschner
1991 Neolithische Holzkohlen aus dem Tell Wadi Fenan (Wadi Arabah, Jordanien) und ihre Interpretation. In Contributiones Selectae ad Floram et Vegetationem Orientis, eds. T. Engel, W. Frey, and H. Kurschner. Flora et Vegetatio Mundi 9: 121-132. Cramer, Stuttgart.
Jordan //Fenan//Neolithic

Galili, E., I. Hershkowitz, A. Gopher, M. Weinstein-Evron, O. Lernau, M. Kislev and L. Horwitz
1993 Atlit-Yam: A Prehistoric Site on the Sea Floor of the Israeli Coast. Journal of Field Archaeology 20: 133-157.
Israel//Atlit-Yam//7M

Galili, Ehud, Daniel Jean Stanley, Jacob Sharvit, Mina Weinstein-Evron
1997 Evidence for Earliest Olive-Oil Production in Submerged Settlements off the Carmel Coast, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science 24: 1141-1150.
Israel//Kfar Samir//7M

Galili, Ehud, Mina Weinstein-Evron, and Daniel Zohary
1989 Appearance of Olives in Submerged Neolithic Sites along the Carmel Coast. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society (Mitekufat Haeven) 22: 95-97.
Israel//Neolithic//7M//Olea europaea

Garrard, Andrew N. , Alison Betts, Brian Byrd, Susan Colledge, Christopher Hunt
1988 Summary of Palaeoenvironmental and Prehistoric Investigations in the Azraq Basin. In The Prehistory of Jordan: The State of Research in 1986, eds. A.N. Garrard and H.G. Gebel. Pp. 311-337. BAR International Series 396, Oxford.
Jordan//Azraq

Garrard, A. N., S. Colledge, S., C. Hunt, C., and R. Montague
1988 Environment and Subsistence during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene in the Azraq Basin. Paleorient 14(2): 40-49.
Jordan//Epipaleo

Gilliland, Dennis
1986 Paleoethnobotany and Paleoenvironment. In Hesban 2: Environmental Foundations, eds. O.S. LaBianca and Larry Lacelle. Pp. 123-12. Andrews University Press, Berrien Springs, Michigan.
Jordan//Tell Hesban//1M//AD

Giorgi, J.
1999 Plant Remains from the Sediments of the Inner Harbour (Area I14). In Caesarea Papers II, eds. K.G.Hollum, A. Raban, and J. Patrich, pp. 353-356. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 35. Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
Levant//Caesarea//1M//AD

Gophna, R. and M. Kislev
1979 Tel Saf (1977-1978). Revue Biblique 86: 112-114.
Israel//Tel Saf

Goren-Inbar, Naama, Gonen Sharon, Yoel Melamed, and Mordechai Kislev
2002 Nuts, Nut Cracking, and Pitted Stones at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel. InProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99: 2455-2460. (text on-line at www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.032570499)
Israel //Gesher Benot Ya'aqov//Acheulian

Goring-Morris, Nigel, Uri Baruch, Anna Belfer-Cohen, and Steve Rosen
1998 Epipalaeolithic Occupation in Nahal Neqarot Rockshelter, Negev, Israel: Radiocarbon Dating and Identification of Charred Wood Remains. Geoarchaeology 13: 219-232.
Israel//Nahal Neqarot//Epipaleo

Helbaek, Hans
1958 Plant Economy in Ancient Lachish. In Lachish IV: The Bronze Age, Olga Tufnell. Pp. 309-317, Appendix A. Oxford University Press, London.
Israel //Lachish//Bronze Age

Helbaek, Hans
1966 Pre-Pottery Neolithic Farming at Beidha. Palestine Exploration Quarterly 98: 61-66.
Jordan //Beidha//Neolithic

Hopf, Maria
1969 Plant Remains and Early Farming at Jericho. In Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals, eds. P.J. Ucko and G.W. Dimbleby. Pp. 355-359. Aldine, Chicago.
Jordan //Jericho//Epipaleo//Neolithic

Hopf, Maria
1978 Plant Remains, Strata V-I. In Early Arad, R. Amiran. Pp. 64-82. Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem.
Israel//Arad

Hopf, Maria
1983 Jericho Plant Remains. In Excavations at Jericho, eds. K.M. Kenyon and T.A. Holland. Pp. 576-621. British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, London.
Jordan//Jericho //Neolithic

Hopf, Maria and Ofer Bar-Yosef
1987 Plant Remains from Hayonim Cave, Western Galilee. Paleorient 13(1): 117-120.
Israel//Hayonim //Epipaleo

Jacquat, Christine and Danièle Martinoli
1999 Vitis vinifera L.: Wild or Cultivated? Study of Grape Pips Found at Petra, Jordan; 150 B.C.-A.D. 40. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 8: 25-30.
Jordan//Petra//1M//AD//Vitis

Kennedy, A.
2007 The Plant Macro-fossils. In The Early Prehistory of Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: Evaluation of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Site of WF16 and Archaeological Surveys of Wadis Faynan, Guwayr and al Bustan, eds. B. Finlayson and S. Mithen, pp. 420-428. Council for British Research in the Levant, London.
Levant//WF16//PPNA

Kislev, Mordechai E.
1980 Conténu d'un silo a blé de l'époque du fer ancien. In Tell Keisan (1971-1976), une cité phénicienne en Galilee, J. Briend and J.-B. Humbert. Pp. 361-379. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, Series Archaeologica 1.
Israel//Tell Keisan//1M

Kislev, Mordechai E.
1985 Early Neolithic Horsebean from Yiftah'el, Israel. Science 228:319-320.
Israel//Yiftah'el////Neolithic Vicia faba

Kislev, Mordechai E.
1986 A Barley Store of the Bar-Kochba Rebels (Roman Period). Israel Journal of Botany 35: 183-196.
Abi'or Cave//135 C.E.//Hordeum v

Kislev, Mordechai E.
1987 Chalcolithic Plant Husbandry and Ancient Vegetation at Shiqmim. In Shiqmim I, Studies Concerning Chalcolithic Societies in the Northern Negev Desert, Israel (1982-1984), ed. Thomas E. Levy. Pp. 251-279; 548-563. BAR International Series 356, Oxford.
Israel //Shiqmim//Chalco

Kislev, Mordechai E.
1988 Nahal Hemar Cave, Desiccated Plant Remains: An Interim Report. 'Atiqot 18:76-81.
Israel//Nahal Hemar//PPNB//Neolithic

Kislev, Mordechai E.
1989 Multiformity in Barley from an Iron Age Store in Sinai. Archaobotanik. Dissertationes Botanicae 133: 67-80.
Kadesh Barnea//1M//Hordeum

Kislev, Mordechai E.
1992 Vegetal Food of Bar Kokhba Revels at Abi'or Cave near Jericho. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 73: 153-160.
Abi'or Cave//135 C.E.

Kislev, Mordechai E.
1994-5 Wild Olive Stones at Submerged Chalcolithic Kfar Samir, Haifa, Israel. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 26: 134-145.
Israel//Kfar Samir//4M//Olea europaea

Kislev, Mordechai E.
1997 Early Agriculture and Paleoecology of Netiv Hagdud. In An Early Neolithic Village in the Jordan Valley Part I: The Archaeology of Netiv Hagdud, ed. O. Bar-Yosef and A. Gopher. Pp. 210-236. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge.
Israel//Netiv Hagdud//9M

Kislev, Mordechai
1998 The Relative Impact of Pig Husbandry versus Goat Browsing on Ancient Oak Forests in Israel. In Villages, Terraces, and Stone Mounds, Excavations at Manahat, Jerusalem, 1987-1989 (The Rephaim Valley Project), by G. Edelstein, I. Milevski, and S. Aurant, pp. 113-118. Israel Antiquities Authority Reports 3. Jerusalem.
Manahat//2M

Kislev, M. E., M. Artzy and E. Marcus
1993 Import of an Aegean Food Plant to a Middle Bronze IIA Coastal Site in Israel. Levant 25: 145-154.
Israel//Tel Nami//2M//Lathyrus clymenum

Kislev, Mordechai and Ofer Bar-Yosef
1988 The Legumes: The Earliest Domesticated Plants in the Near East? Current Anthropology 29: 175-179.
Israel//Fabaceae

Kislev, Mordechai E., Ofer Bar-Yosef and Avi Gopher
1986 Early Neolithic Domesticated and Wild Barley from the Netiv Hagdud Region in the Jordan Valley. Israel Journal of Botany 35: 197-201.
Israel //Netiv Hagdud////Neolithic Hordeum

Kislev, Mordechai, Anat Hartmann, and Ehud Galili
2004 Archaeobotanical and Archaeoentomological Evidence from a Well at Atlit-Yam Indicates Colder, More Humid Climate on the Israeli Coast during the PPNC Period. Journal of Archaeological Science 31(9):1301-1310.
Levant//Atlit-Yam//6M

Kislev, Mordechai and Maria Hopf
1985 Food Remains from Tell Qasile, with Special Reference to Lathyrus sativus/cicera. In Excavations at Tell Qasile, part 2, A. Mazar. Qedem 20: 140-147
Israel//Tell Qasile

Kislev, Mordechai E. and Yael Mahler-Slasky
2009 Food Remains. In Aphek-Antipatris II. The Remains on the Acropolis, by Y. Gadot and E. Yadin, pp. 499-525. Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University.
Levant//T. Aphek//2M//1M

Kislev, M.E., and Y. Melamed
2000 Ancient Infested Wheat and Horsebean from Horbat Rosh Zayit. In Horbat Rosh Zayit, An Iron Age Storage Fort and Village, by Z. Gal and Y. Alexandre, pp. 206-220. Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem.
Levant//Horbat Rosh Zayit//1M

Kislev, Mordechai and Yoel Melamed
2002 The Burnt Plants. In Kissufim Road, A Chalcolithic Mortuary Site, by Y. Goren and P. Fabian. Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem.
Levant//Kissufim Road//4M?

Kislev, M. E., D. Nadel and J. Carmi
1992 Epipaleolithic (19,000) Cereal and Fruit Diet at Ohalo II, Sea of Galilee, Israel. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 73: 161-166.
Israel//Ohalo II//17 M

Lev, E., M. E. Kislev, and O. Bar-Yosef
2005 Mousterian Vegetal Food in Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel. Journal of Archaeological Science 32: 475-484.
Levant//Kebara Cave//Middle Paleolithic

Lev-Yadun, Simcha
1992 The Origin of the Cedar Beams from Al-Aqsa Mosque: Botanical, Historical and Archaeological Evidence. Levant 24: 200-208.
Jerusalem//Medieval//Cedrus libani

Liphschitz, N.
1986/87 Palaeobotanical Remains from Mount Ebal. Tel Aviv 13-14: 190-191. Levant//Mount Ebal//1M

Liphschitz, Nili
1989 Plant Economy and Diet in the Early Bronze Age in Israel: A Summary of Present Research. In L'urbanisation de la Palestine a l'age du Bronze ancien, ed. P. de Miroschedji. Pp. 269-277. BAR International Series 527 (ii), Oxford.
Israel

Liphschitz, N.
1993 Palaeobotanical Remains. In Shiloh, the Archaeology of a Biblical Site, pp. 351-353. Tel Aviv.
Israel//Shiloh//2M//1M

Liphschitz, N.
1996 The Vegetational Landscape of the Negev during Antiquity as Evident from Archaeological Wood Remains. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences 44: 161-179.
Israel//Negev//4M//3M//2M//1M//AD

Liphschitz, N.
1996 Archaeobotanical Investigations. In The Nahal Qanah Cave, by A. Gopher and T. Tsuk, pp. 202-204. Institute of Archaeology Monograph 12, Tel Aviv.
Levant//Nahal Qanah Cave//6M//5M

Liphschitz, N.
1997 Wood Remains from Two PPNB Sites: Horvat Galil and Nahal Beset. Tel Aviv 24: 237-239.
Israel//Horvat Galil//Nahal Beset//PPNB

Liphschitz, Nili
1998 Timber Analysis of Household Objects in Israel: A Comparative Study. Israel Exploration Journal 48: 77-90.
Levant//2M//1M

Liphschitz, N.
2001 Archaeobotanical Remains from 'Uvda Valley Site 917. 'Atiqot 42: 129-131.
Israel//'Uvda Valley site 917//3M//2M

Liphschitz, Nili
2009 Dendroarchaeological Excavations: H. Shallale, Mt. Carmel. In Shallale, Ancient City of the Carmel, by D. Shimon, p. 317. BAR International Series 1897.
Levant//Shallale//2M

Liphschitz, Nili and Gideon Biger
1991 Cedar of Lebanon (Cedrus libani) in Israel during Antiquity. Israel Exploration Journal 41: 167-175.
Israel//Cedrus libani

Liphschitz, N. and S. Lev-Yadun
1989 The Botanical Remains from Masada: Identification of the Plant Species and the Possible Origin of the Remnants. Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research 274: 27-32.
Israel//Masada

Liphschitz, N., S. Lev-Yadun, and Y. Waisel
1981 Dendroarchaeological Investigations in Israel (Masada). Israel Exploration Journal 31:230-234.
Israel//Madada//1M//timber

Liphschitz, N. and D. Nadel
1997 Charred Wood Remains from Ohalo II (19,000 B.P.), Sea of Galilee, Israel. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 27: 5-18.
Israel//Ohalo II//Paleo

Liphschitz, Nili and Tamar Noy
1991 Vegetational Landscape and the Macroclimate of the Gilgal Region during the Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 24: 59-63.
Israel//Gilgal//Natuf//PPNA

Liphschitz, N. and Yoav Waisel
1973 Analysis of the Botanical Material of the 1969-1970 Seasons and the Climatic History of the Beer-Sheba Region. In Beer-Sheba I, Excavations at Tel Beer-Sheba, 1969-1971 Seasons, ed. Y. Aharoni. Pp. 97-105. Tel Aviv: Institute of Archaeology.
Israel//Beer-Sheba//1 M//1 M AD

Liphschitz, N. and Y. Waisel
1976 Dendroarchaeological investigations in Israel (St. Catherine's Monastery in Southern Sinai). Israel Exploration Journal 26:39-44.
Israel//St. Catherine's Monastery//AD

Liphschitz, N. and Y. Waisel
1977 Dendroarchaeological investigations in Israel: Central Negev-Nahal Zin. In Prehistory and Paleoenvironments in the Central Negev, Israel, vol. II, ed. A. Marks, pp.355-356. Institute for the Study of Earthand Man, Southern Methodist University.
Israel//Boker Tachtit//Avdat-Aqev//Paleo//timber

Liphschitz, Nili, Yoav Waisel, Abraham Fahn, Ella Werker, and Uri Baruch
1992 Macrobotanical Remains. (3 sections including seeds and wood.) In Excavations at the City of David 1978-1985 Directed by Yigal Shiloh. Vol. III. Stratigraphic, Environmental, and Other Reports.," eds. A. de Groot and D.T. Ariel, pp. 105-121. Qedem 33. Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
City of David//2M//1M

Liphschitz, Nili, Yoav Waisel, and Maria Hopf
1998 Analysis of Charred Wood Samples and Seeds from Chalcolithic Sites in the Golan. In The Chalcolithic Culture of the Golan, by Claire Epstein, pp. 339-340. Israel Antiquities Authority.
Golan//Chalco

Madella, Marco, Martin K. Jones, Paul Goldberg, Yuval Goren, and Erella Hovers
2002 The Exploitation of Plant Resources by Neanderthals in Amud Cave (Israel): The Evidence from Phytolith Studies. Journal of Archaeological Science 29: 703-719.
Levant//Amud Cave//Middle Paleolithic//phyto

McCreery, D.
1980 The Nature and Cultural Implications of Early Bronze Age Agriculture in the Southern Ghor of Jordan - An Archaeological Reconstruction. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
Jordan//Early Bronze Age

McCreery, David
1979 Flotation of the Bab edh-dhra' and Numeira Plant Remains. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 46: 165-169.
Jordan//Bab edh-dhra'//Numeira

McCreery, David W.
1983 Ancient Plant Remains. In The Excavations at Araq el-Emir. Vol. 1, by Nancy L. Lapp, pp. 103-104. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research 47. Ann Arbor.
2M//1M//AD

McCreery, David W.
2003 The Paleoethnobotany of Bab edh-Dhra'. In Bab edh-Dhra': Excavations at the Town Site (1975-1981). Part 1: Text, eds. W.E. Rast ?nd R.T. Schaub, pp. 449-463. Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake, Indiana.
Jordan// Bab edh-Dhra'//3M

Melamed, Yoel
1996 Dry and Charred Grains from 'Afula-a Taphonomic Approach. 'Atiqot 30:69-70.
Levant//'Afula//3M//2M

Mithen, Steven, Phil Austen, Amanda Kennedy, Helen Emberson, Neil Lancaster, and Bill Finlayson
2007 Early Neolithic woodland composition and exploitation in the southern Levant: a comparison between archaeobotanical remains from WF16 and present-day woodland at Hammam Adethni. Environmental Archaeology 12: 49-70.
Levant//WF16//PPNA

Muheisen, M. S., H.G. Gebel, H.G., C. Hanns, and R. Neef
1988 'Ain Ruhab, a New Final Natufian and Yarnmoukian Site Near Irbid. In The Prehistory of Jordan: The State of Research in 1986, eds. A.N. Garrard and H.G. Gebel. Pp. 472-502. BAR International Series 396, Oxford.
Jordan//'Ain Ruhab

Nadel, D. and E. Werker
1999 The oldest ever brush hut plant remains from Ohalo II, Jordan Valley, Israel (19,000 BP) Antiquity 73:755-764.
Levant//Ohalo II//Upper Paleo

Neef, Reinder
1987 Botanical Remains. In Udruh - Caravan City and Desert Oasis. A Guide to Udruh and its Surroundings, ed. A. Killick. Romsey.
Jordan //Udruh//Iron Age

Neef, Reinder
1988 La couverture végétale et l'exploitation de l'environnement au 4e millénaire. In Abu Hamid, Village du 4e millénaire de la vallée du Jourdain. Pp. 18-19. Centre Culturel Français et Département des Antiquités du Jordanie, Amman.
Jordan//Abu Hamid//4M

Neef, Reinder
1988 Les activités agricoles et horticoles. In Abu Hamid, Village du 4e millénaire de la vallée du Jourdain. Pp. 29-30. Centre Culturel Français et Département des Antiquités de Jordanie, Amman.
Jordan//Abu Hamid//4M

Neef, Reinder
1989 Plants. In Picking up the Threads, A Continuing Review of Excavations at Deir Alla, Jordan, eds. G. van der Kooij and M.M. Ibrahim. Pp. 30-37. University of Leiden Archaeological Centre, Leiden.
Jordan//Deir 'Alla //2M

Neef, Reinder
1989/90 Planten. In Een Verhaal voor het Oprapen, Opgravingen te Deir Alla in de Jordaan Vallei. Pp. 30-37. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden.
Jordan //Deir Alla//Iron Age

Neef, R.
1990 Introduction, Development and Environmental Implications of Olive Culture: The Evidence from Jordan. In Man's Role in the Shaping of the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape, eds. S. Bottema, G. Entjes-Nieborg, and W. van Zeist. Pp. 295-306. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
Jordan//Olea//5M

Neef, Reinder
1997 Status and Perspectives of Archaeobotanical Research in Jordan. In The Preshistory of Jordan, II. Perspectives from 1997, by H.G.K. Gebel, Z. Kafafi, and G.O. Rollefson. Pp. 601-609. Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment 4, Berlin.
Jordan

Neef, Reinder
2001 The Plant Remains. In Jebel Abu Thawwad (er-Rumman), Central Jordan. The Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age I Occupations, by Z.A. Kafafi, pp. 203-209.
Jordan// Jebel Abu Thawwad//5M//4M//3M

Neef, Reinder
in press Vegetation and Plant Husbandry. In Basta I. The Human Ecology, ed. H.J. Nissen, M. Muheisen, and H.G.K. Gebel. Pp. 55-71 + tables and figures.
Jordan//Basta//PPNB

Noy, T. (with contribution by M. Kislev)
1988 Gilgal I, An Early Village in the Jordan Valley. The Israel Museum Journal 2: 113-114.
Gilgal//PPNA

Noy, T., A. J. Legge and E. S. Higgs, with R.W. Dennell
1973 Recent Excavations at Nahal Oren, Israel. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 39: 75-99.
Israel //Nahel Oren//Epipaleo

Potts, T. F., S. M. Colledge and P. C. Edwards
1985 Preliminary Report on a Sixth Season of Excavation by the University of Sydney at Pella in Jordan (1983/84). Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 29: 181-210.
Jordan //Wadi Hammeh//Natufian

Pustovoytov, K.E., S. Riehl, and S. Mittmann
2004 Radiocarbon Age of Carbonate in Fruits of Lithospermum from the Early Bronze Age Settlement of Hirbet ez-Zeraqon (Jordan). Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 13: 207-212.
Jordan//Hirbet ez-Zeraqon//3M

Riehl, Simone
1999 Fruhbronzezeitliche Okonomie in Hirbet ez-Zeraqon, Jordanien
Jordan//Hirbet ez-Zeraqon//2M

Rollefson, Gary
1985 The 1983 Season at the Early Neolithic Site of 'Ain Ghazal. National Geographic Research 1(1): 44-62.
Jordan //'Ain Ghazal//Neolithic

Rollefson, G. O., A. H. Simmons, M. L. Donaldson, W. Gillepsie, Z. Kafafi, I. -U Kohler-Rollefson, E. McAdam, S. L. Rolston and M. K. Tubb
1985 Excavation at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Village of 'Ain Ghazal (Jordan), 1983. Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orientgesellschaft zu Berlin 117: 69-116.
Jordan//'Ain Ghazal//7M

Rosen, Arlene M.
1987 Phytolith Studies at Shiqmim. In Shiqmim I, ed. T.E. Levy. Pp. 243-249. BAR International Series 356 (i), Oxford.
Israel//Chalcolithic//Irrigation

Rosen, Arlene M.
1994 Identifying Ancient Irrigation: A New Method Using Opaline Phytoliths from Emmer Wheat. Journal of Archaeological Science 21: 125-132.
Israel//Chalcolithic//Irrigation//Triticum dicoccum

van Zeist, Willem and J. A. H. Heeres
1973 Paleobotanical Studies of Deir 'Alla, Jordan. Paleorient 1: 21-37.
Jordan //Deir 'Alla//Bronze Age

Warnock, Peter
2001 Wood Analysis. In The Petra Church, by Z.T. Fiema, C. Kanellopoulos, T. Waliszewski, and R. Schick. Pp. 398-408. American Center of Oriental Research, Amman.
Levant//Petra//AD

Weiss, Ehud and Mordechai E. Kislev
2004 Plant Remains as Indicators for Economic Activity: a Case Study from Iron Age Ashkelon. Journal of Archaeological Science 31: 1-13.
Levant//Ashkelon//1M

Weiss, E., M. E. Kislev, O. Simchoni, and D. Nadel
2004 Small-grained wild grasses as staple food at the 23 000-year-old site of Ohalo II, Israel. Economic Botany 58 (Supplement): 125-134.
Levant//Ohalo II//Upper Paleolithic

Western, A. Cecilia
1971 The Ecological Interpretation of Ancient Charcoals from Jericho. Levant 3: 31-40.
Jericho//PPNA//PPNB//Bronze Age

Western, A. C.
1983 Catalogue of Identified Charcoal and Samples. In Excavations at Jericho, vol. 5, K. Kenyon and T. A. Holland. Pp. 770-773. British School of Archaeology, Jerusalem.
Jericho

Willcox, George
1992 Archaeobotanical Investigations at Pella (1983). In Pella in Jordan 2, by A.W. McNicoll, R.H. Smith, P.M. Watson, and S. Gordon. Pp. 253-256. Sydney.
Joprdan//Wadi Hammeh//Kebaran//Natuf//4M//3M//2M//1M//AD

Zaitschek, D. V.
1955 Remains of Cultivated Plants from Afula. 'Atiqot 1: 71-74.
Israel//Afula

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