[HTML][HTML] Late Quaternary sea-level changes and early human societies in the central and eastern Mediterranean Basin: An interdisciplinary review

J Benjamin, A Rovere, A Fontana, S Furlani… - Quaternary …, 2017 - Elsevier
This article reviews key data and debates focused on relative sea-level changes since the
Last Interglacial (approximately the last 132,000 years) in the Mediterranean Basin, and …

[HTML][HTML] Holocene sea-level rise and coastal aquifer interactions: Triggering mechanisms for environmental change and impacts on human settlement patterns at Dor …

G Shtienberg, K Cantu, S Mischke, D Sivan… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Future sea-level rise is expected to affect coastal aquifers and environments and have
significant impacts on coastal communities. Here, we describe the impact of early to late …

First high resolution chronostratigraphy for the early North African Acheulean at Casablanca (Morocco)

R Gallotti, G Muttoni, D Lefèvre, JP Degeai… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The onset of the Acheulean, marked by the emergence of large cutting tools (LCTs), is
considered a major technological advance in the Early Stone Age and a key turning point in …

Multi-element mapping of anthropogenically modified soils and sediments at the Bronze to Iron Ages site of Tel Burna in the southern Levant

L Šmejda, M Hejcman, J Horák, I Shai - Quaternary International, 2018 - Elsevier
Human settlement activities have caused changes in soil chemical properties that might
remain preserved in the soil archive for a very long time. These traces might be close to …

An Early Islamic inter-settlement agroecosystem in the coastal sand of the Yavneh dunefield, Israel

I Taxel, D Sivan, R Bookman… - Journal of Field …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines the remains of an agricultural complex found in the Yavneh coastal
dunefield, central Israel. Known as a plot-and-berm agroecosystem, the complex consisted …

New relative sea-level (RSL) indications from the Eastern Mediterranean: Middle Bronze Age to the Roman period (~ 3800–1800 y BP) archaeological constructions …

A Yasur-Landau, G Shtienberg, G Gambash, G Spada… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
This article presents new archaeological observations and multidisciplinary research from
Dor, Israel to establish a more reliable relative sea level for the Carmel Coast and Southern …

Sediment microbiota as a proxy of environmental health: Discovering inter-and intrakingdom dynamics along the eastern mediterranean continental shelf

M Lalzar, T Zvi-Kedem, Y Kroin, S Martinez… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Sedimentary marine habitats are the largest ecosystem on our planet in terms of area.
Marine sediment microbiota govern most of the benthic biological processes and therefore …

Geoarchaeological research at Paleolithic open-air sites in the Levant: A review

KC Amarasinghe - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The stratigraphic record of Paleolithic open-air sites represents complex depositional
histories involving local and regional-scale geological and geochemical formation …

“He who revives dead land”: groundwater harvesting agroecosystems in sand along the southeastern Mediterranean coast since early medieval times

J Roskin, I Taxel - Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews, 2021 - Springer
Abstract During the Early Islamic period, groundwater-harvesting agroecosystems in sand
appeared along the southeastern Mediterranean coast in the form of plot and berm (P&B) …

[HTML][HTML] Refuse Usage and Architectural Reuse in the Field: A View from the Early Islamic Plot-and-Berm Agroecosystem to the South of Caesarea/Qaysariyya (Israel)

I Taxel, J Roskin - Journal of Islamic Archaeology, 2022 - journal.equinoxpub.com
Based on the mostly unpublished finds of a 1970s excavation and the initial results of a
2020 survey and excavation of the remains of an Early Islamic Plot-and-Berm (P&B) …