This book gathers the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 1st congress on Geoethics &
Groundwater Management (GEOETH&GWM'20), held in Porto, Portugal, in an online format …

This article combines historical and archaeological evidence to investigate the role
arboriculture played in the agricultural economy in the southern Levant as centers of …

Archaeobotanical research in the southern Levant has focused on the development of
agriculture and urban societies, but less so on how agriculture sustained long-lived cities …

Based on the accumulated data from numerous excavations in the hinterland of Gaza and
Ashkelon and the results of the comprehensive bioarchaeological research on Late Antique …

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) …

This article concentrates on the outlining of major settlement forms and land uses in Early
Islamic Palestine and some of the social and demographic dynamics related to their …

Salvage excavations were carried out on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority in the fall of
2016 south of Ze'ev Wienhaus Street, located within the municipal boundaries of the modern …

A shallow, human dug pit dated to the Early Islamic period (Area C3, 9th-10th century CE)
and containing solely pig remains (Sus scrofa/S. s. domesticus) was discovered in an …

This research constitutes a first attempt to discuss a Muslim pilgrimage site from a holistic, in-
depth archaeological perspective. Our case study is Nabi Rubin, on the southern coastal …

The archaeological site of Caesarea Maritima in modern-day Israel was an important coastal
town in the Early Islamic period (c. 636–1100 CE). In this article, I analyze 15 samples of …