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) …

ABSTRACT During the Early Islamic period, several emerging agricultural innovations
enabled the cultivation of summer crops in unproductive Mediterranean lands. This …

Overcoming liabilities of loose sand such as scarce nutrients and low water retention
remains an agricultural challenge.“plot-and-berm”(P&B) agroecosystems, situated in dune …

The Marmarica, an arid region in NW-Egypt between the Jebel el Akhdar to the west and the
Nile Valley to the east, offers rich evidence for understanding the interlinkages of scarce …

In arid and semi-arid regions runoff-fed agriculture has been common for millennia. Recent
geographical and archaeological investigations in the north-eastern part of ancient …

In semi-arid to arid environments, water is the most constraining resource for agricultural
communities. In Southeast Arabia (Sultanate of Oman and United Arab Emirates), the …

Inundated archaeological sites dating from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Pottery Neolithic
periods have been exposed off the Mediterranean coast of Israel, mainly the northern …

This chapter presents the preliminary results of an ongoing fieldwork project in the region of
Udhruh (southern Jordan). It focuses on and discusses the ancient agro-hydrological …

Limekilns, common throughout the southern Levant in carbonate rock highlands, were rare
in aeolian sand terrains. This study presents for the first time a limekiln within an …

The site of Udhruh is located in the arid desert of southern Jordan, about 15 km to the east of
Petra. The site was built by the Nabataeans but expanded by the Romans (as a defensive …