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 …

Based on the mostly unpublished finds of a 1970s excavation and the initial results of a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) …

As part of the long-term archaeological project being conducted at Tell e-Sâfi/Gath in the
semi-arid foothills of the Judean Mountains, a first order dry stream channel located in a …

Ancient agricultural systems in the Negev Desert preserves abundant evidence of dryland
farming from the Roman, Byzantine and Early Islamic periods. These systems consist of …

This contribution compares the remains of irrigation systems along a climatic transect in
northern Jordan: Gadara (today Umm Qeis) in the north-west, Abila (today Queilbeh) in the …

Eight inundated archaeological sites dating to the Pottery Neolithic period (Wadi Rabah
culture), 8000–6500 cal. BP, have been exposed under water off the Carmel coast of Israel …

Major cultural transformations took place in the southern Levant during the late prehistoric
periods (ca. late 7th–4th millennia bc). Agropastoralists expanded into areas previously only …

The Negev Highlands (southern Israel) is an arid zone characterized by settlement
oscillations. One settlement peak occurred in the early Iron Age IIA (late 10th and early 9th …

Between 2004 and 2008, a wealth of ancient agriculture-related finds was uncovered during
a survey throughout the loess plains of the Beer Sheva Valley region, in the arid northern …

At the Ein Gedi oasis, in the Judean Desert, abundant archaeological remains of agricultural
irrigation systems are found that were fed only by spring water and used to irrigate the fields …