Patricia L Fall
Biographic Data
| ID | 119909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia L Fall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia L |
| FAMILY NAME | Fall |
| SIGNATURE | FALL P L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2510-6237 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Bronze Age agropastoral management in central Cyprus and along the Jordan Rift
Domestic herbivore mobility and herd management at Bronze Age Politiko-Troullia, Cyprus
This study presents stable isotope analysis of carbon (δ13C) and oxygen (δ18O) from goat, sheep, and cattle teeth excavated from the Bronze Age village of Politiko-Troullia, Cyprus. The δ18O of local water sources and converted δ18Odrinking water values are used to demonstrate the dietary inputs for goats as compared to those for sheep and cattle. We infer the browsing and grazing behavior of these taxa to reflect different herd management strate…
Prehistoric Bronze Age Radiocarbon Chronology at Politiko- Troullia , Cyprus
Politiko- Troullia has generated the largest radiocarbon ( 14 C) dataset from a Prehistoric Bronze Age settlement on Cyprus. We present Bayesian modeling of 25 calibrated AMS ages, which contributes to an emerging multi-site 14 C chronology for Cyprus covering most of the Prehistoric Bronze Age. Our analysis places the six stratified phases of occupation at Troullia between about 2050 and 1850 cal BCE, in contrast to a longer estimated occupation…
Bayesian Modeling of a Peripheral Middle Bronze Age Settlement at Zahrat Adh-Dhra‘ 1, Jordan
Analysis of 20 calibrated accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon (AMS 14 C) ages reveals a chronology for the habitation of a unique peripheral settlement at Zahrat adh-Dhra‘ 1 (ZAD 1), Jordan during the Middle Bronze Age of the Southern Levant. Bayesian modeling distinguishes three phases of occupation between the first settlement at ZAD 1, perhaps as early as about 2050 cal BCE, and its abandonment by 1700 cal BCE. ZAD 1 represents a margina…
Sacred Spaces and Liminal Behavior in Levantine Temples in Antis
Temples in antis provide clearly defined liminal spaces for ritual behaviors that are readily recognizable both textually and archaeologically. This architectural form and the religious tradition it embodied were remarkably widespread geographically and temporally, spanning the Levant and Greater Syria from the end of the Early Bronze Age until the early Iron Age. Although the Southern Levant has been characterized as highly urbanized during the …
New Ams Chronology for the Early Bronze Iii/Iv Transition at Khirbat Iskandar, Jordan
We present the first Bayesian 14 C modeling based on AMS ages from stratified sediments representing continuous occupation across the Early Bronze III/IV interface in the Southern Levant. This new high-precision modeling incorporates 12 calibrated AMS ages from Khirbat Iskandar Area C using OxCal 4.4.4 and the IntCal 20 calibration curve to specify the EB III/IV transition at or slightly before 2500 cal BCE. Our results contribute to the continui…
Crop management and agricultural responses at Early Bronze IV Tell Abu en-Ni'aj, Jordan
New Bayesian Radiocarbon Models and Ceramic Chronologies for Early Bronze Iv Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj and Middle Bronze Age Tell El-Hayyat, Jordan
We present two new Bayesian 14 C models using IntCal20 that incorporate 17 new calibrated AMS ages for Early Bronze IV Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj and Middle Bronze Age Tell el-Hayyat, located in the northern Jordan Valley, Jordan. These freshly augmented suites of carbonized seed dates now include 25 AMS dates from Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj and 31 AMS dates from Tell el-Hayyat. The modeled founding date for Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj strengthens an emerging high chronolog…
Archaeobotanical inference of intermittent settlement and agriculture at Middle Bronze Age Zahrat adh-Dhra'1, Jordan
A Radiocarbon Sequence from Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj, Jordan and its Implications for Early Bronze IV Chronology in the Southern Levant
Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj, an agrarian Early Bronze IV village in the northern Jordan Valley, Jordan, provides a series of 24 accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) seed dates spanning seven stratified phases of occupation. Bayesian analysis of these ages reveals that habitation at Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj began between 2600 and 2500 cal BC and ended just before 2000 cal BC. This sequence provides the longest radiocarbon record of occupation for an Early Bronze IV…
Bronze age fuel use and its implications for agrarian landscapes in the eastern Mediterranean
A Stone Plank Figure from Politiko- Troullia , Cyprus: Potential Implications for Inferring Bronze Age Communal Behavior
Plank figures are hallmark anthropomorphic depictions that illuminate Bronze Age society on Cyprus. The excavation of a rare limestone plank figure from a public space at Politiko-Troullia is interpreted in conjunction with spatial patterning of ceramic plank figures, plant macrofossils, animal bones, ground stone, spindle whorls, and metallurgical evidence to infer communal behavior at this Early/Middle Cypriot—period settlement. The Politiko-Tr…
Modeling vegetation dynamics in the Southern Levant through the Bronze Age
The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project
Household and community behavior at Bronze Age Politiko- Troullia , Cyprus
We investigate intrasite patterns of artifacts and floral and faunal data to interpret household and community behavior at the Middle Cypriot (Bronze Age) village of Politiko-Troullia in the foothills of the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus. Floral evidence indicates cultivation of orchard crops (e.g., olive and grape), as well as the persistence of woodlands that provided wood for fuel. Animal management combined herding of domesticated sheep, goat, pi…
Species Origins, Dispersal, and Island Vegetation Dynamics in the South Pacific
We characterize the vegetation of the Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific, by exploring the effects of species–area relationships, species isolation, and long-distance dispersal. Published literature provides data for eleven main islands of Tonga on species richness, vegetation types, origins, and dispersal mechanisms. Island area, maximum elevation, distance from neighboring archipelagos, and island geology provide key variables with which to consid…
Long-term agrarian landscapes in the Troodos foothills, Cyprus
Archaeobotanical inference of Bronze Age land use and land cover in the eastern Mediterranean
Vegetation Change in the Coastal-Lowland Rainforest at Avai'o'vuna Swamp, Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga
Avai'o'vuna Swamp, a small coastal wetland in Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga, produced a 4500-year pollen and sediment record. Results are: (1) a mid-Holocene sea level highstand is confirmed for Tonga between about 4500 and 2600 14 C yr B.P.; marine clay contains pollen from mangroves ( Rhizophora mangle ), coastal forest trees ( Barringtonia asiatica and Cocos nucifera ), and rainforest trees ( Alphitonia, Rhus, Hedycarya and Calophyllum ). (2) Micro…
Agricultural Intensification and the Secondary Products Revolution Along the Jordan Rift
Seeds of Civilization: Bronze Age Rural Economy and Ecology in the Southern Levant
This paper considers the economic and environmental impacts of emerging regional commerce that accompanied the rise and collapse of early Near Eastern urbanism. We integrate regional data on settlement and vegetation with detailed evidence of rural agriculture from two Bronze Age villages in the Jordan Valley. This approach is explicitly rural, in light of the largely rural character of Levantine civilization, and in response to more orthodox ana…
Late Quaternary Vegetation and Climate of the Wind River Range, Wyoming
Sediments from Rapid Lake document glacial and vegetation history in the Temple Lake valley of the Wind River Range, Wyoming over the past 11,000 to 12,000 yr. Radiocarbon age determinations on basal detrital organic matter from Rapid Lake (11,770 ± 710 yr B.P.) and Temple Lake (11,400 ± 630 yr B.P.) bracket the age of the Temple Lake moraine, suggesting that the moraine formed in the late Pleistocene. This terminal Pleistocene readvance may be r…
United States
Pollen Taphonomy in a Canyon Stream
Surface soil samples from the forested Chuska Mountains to the arid steppe of the Chinle Valley, Northeastern Arizona, show close correlation between modern pollen rain and vegetation. In contrast, modern alluvium is dominated by Pinus pollen throughout the canyon; it reflects neither the surrounding floodplain nor plateau vegetation. Pollen in surface soils is deposited by wind; pollen grains in alluvium are deposited by a stream as sedimentary …
Palynological Evidence for Early Holocene Aridity in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California
Sediments of Balsam Meadow have produced a 11,000-yr pollen record from the southern Sierra Nevada of California. The Balsam Meadow diagram is divided into three zones. (1) The Artemisia zone (11,000–7000 yr B.P.) is characterized by percentages of sagebrush ( Artemisia ) and other nonarboreal pollen higher than can be found in the modern local vegetation. Vegetation during this interval was probably similar to the modern vegetation on the east s…
Archaeobotanical inference of Bronze Age land use and land cover in the eastern Mediterranean
Seeds of Civilization: Bronze Age Rural Economy and Ecology in the Southern Levant
This paper considers the economic and environmental impacts of emerging regional commerce that accompanied the rise and collapse of early Near Eastern urbanism. We integrate regional data on settlement and vegetation with detailed evidence of rural agriculture from two Bronze Age villages in the Jordan Valley. This approach is explicitly rural, in light of the largely rural character of Levantine civilization, and in response to more orthodox ana…
The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project
Agricultural Intensification and the Secondary Products Revolution Along the Jordan Rift
Long-term agrarian landscapes in the Troodos foothills, Cyprus
Household and community behavior at Bronze Age Politiko- Troullia , Cyprus
We investigate intrasite patterns of artifacts and floral and faunal data to interpret household and community behavior at the Middle Cypriot (Bronze Age) village of Politiko-Troullia in the foothills of the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus. Floral evidence indicates cultivation of orchard crops (e.g., olive and grape), as well as the persistence of woodlands that provided wood for fuel. Animal management combined herding of domesticated sheep, goat, pi…
New Bayesian Radiocarbon Models and Ceramic Chronologies for Early Bronze Iv Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj and Middle Bronze Age Tell El-Hayyat, Jordan
We present two new Bayesian 14 C models using IntCal20 that incorporate 17 new calibrated AMS ages for Early Bronze IV Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj and Middle Bronze Age Tell el-Hayyat, located in the northern Jordan Valley, Jordan. These freshly augmented suites of carbonized seed dates now include 25 AMS dates from Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj and 31 AMS dates from Tell el-Hayyat. The modeled founding date for Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj strengthens an emerging high chronolog…
Modeling vegetation dynamics in the Southern Levant through the Bronze Age
A Radiocarbon Sequence from Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj, Jordan and its Implications for Early Bronze IV Chronology in the Southern Levant
Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj, an agrarian Early Bronze IV village in the northern Jordan Valley, Jordan, provides a series of 24 accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) seed dates spanning seven stratified phases of occupation. Bayesian analysis of these ages reveals that habitation at Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj began between 2600 and 2500 cal BC and ended just before 2000 cal BC. This sequence provides the longest radiocarbon record of occupation for an Early Bronze IV…
Bronze age fuel use and its implications for agrarian landscapes in the eastern Mediterranean
Crop management and agricultural responses at Early Bronze IV Tell Abu en-Ni'aj, Jordan
Archaeobotanical inference of intermittent settlement and agriculture at Middle Bronze Age Zahrat adh-Dhra'1, Jordan
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction at Canyon del Muerto, Arizona, based on principal-component analysis
New Ams Chronology for the Early Bronze Iii/Iv Transition at Khirbat Iskandar, Jordan
We present the first Bayesian 14 C modeling based on AMS ages from stratified sediments representing continuous occupation across the Early Bronze III/IV interface in the Southern Levant. This new high-precision modeling incorporates 12 calibrated AMS ages from Khirbat Iskandar Area C using OxCal 4.4.4 and the IntCal 20 calibration curve to specify the EB III/IV transition at or slightly before 2500 cal BCE. Our results contribute to the continui…
Domestic herbivore mobility and herd management at Bronze Age Politiko-Troullia, Cyprus
This study presents stable isotope analysis of carbon (δ13C) and oxygen (δ18O) from goat, sheep, and cattle teeth excavated from the Bronze Age village of Politiko-Troullia, Cyprus. The δ18O of local water sources and converted δ18Odrinking water values are used to demonstrate the dietary inputs for goats as compared to those for sheep and cattle. We infer the browsing and grazing behavior of these taxa to reflect different herd management strate…
Prehistoric Bronze Age Radiocarbon Chronology at Politiko- Troullia , Cyprus
Politiko- Troullia has generated the largest radiocarbon ( 14 C) dataset from a Prehistoric Bronze Age settlement on Cyprus. We present Bayesian modeling of 25 calibrated AMS ages, which contributes to an emerging multi-site 14 C chronology for Cyprus covering most of the Prehistoric Bronze Age. Our analysis places the six stratified phases of occupation at Troullia between about 2050 and 1850 cal BCE, in contrast to a longer estimated occupation…
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction at Canyon del Muerto, Arizona, based on principal-component analysis
Palynological Evidence for Early Holocene Aridity in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California
Sediments of Balsam Meadow have produced a 11,000-yr pollen record from the southern Sierra Nevada of California. The Balsam Meadow diagram is divided into three zones. (1) The Artemisia zone (11,000–7000 yr B.P.) is characterized by percentages of sagebrush ( Artemisia ) and other nonarboreal pollen higher than can be found in the modern local vegetation. Vegetation during this interval was probably similar to the modern vegetation on the east s…
Pollen Taphonomy in a Canyon Stream
Surface soil samples from the forested Chuska Mountains to the arid steppe of the Chinle Valley, Northeastern Arizona, show close correlation between modern pollen rain and vegetation. In contrast, modern alluvium is dominated by Pinus pollen throughout the canyon; it reflects neither the surrounding floodplain nor plateau vegetation. Pollen in surface soils is deposited by wind; pollen grains in alluvium are deposited by a stream as sedimentary …
United States
Late Quaternary Vegetation and Climate of the Wind River Range, Wyoming
Sediments from Rapid Lake document glacial and vegetation history in the Temple Lake valley of the Wind River Range, Wyoming over the past 11,000 to 12,000 yr. Radiocarbon age determinations on basal detrital organic matter from Rapid Lake (11,770 ± 710 yr B.P.) and Temple Lake (11,400 ± 630 yr B.P.) bracket the age of the Temple Lake moraine, suggesting that the moraine formed in the late Pleistocene. This terminal Pleistocene readvance may be r…
Seeds of Civilization: Bronze Age Rural Economy and Ecology in the Southern Levant
This paper considers the economic and environmental impacts of emerging regional commerce that accompanied the rise and collapse of early Near Eastern urbanism. We integrate regional data on settlement and vegetation with detailed evidence of rural agriculture from two Bronze Age villages in the Jordan Valley. This approach is explicitly rural, in light of the largely rural character of Levantine civilization, and in response to more orthodox ana…
Agricultural Intensification and the Secondary Products Revolution Along the Jordan Rift
Vegetation Change in the Coastal-Lowland Rainforest at Avai'o'vuna Swamp, Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga
Avai'o'vuna Swamp, a small coastal wetland in Vava'u, Kingdom of Tonga, produced a 4500-year pollen and sediment record. Results are: (1) a mid-Holocene sea level highstand is confirmed for Tonga between about 4500 and 2600 14 C yr B.P.; marine clay contains pollen from mangroves ( Rhizophora mangle ), coastal forest trees ( Barringtonia asiatica and Cocos nucifera ), and rainforest trees ( Alphitonia, Rhus, Hedycarya and Calophyllum ). (2) Micro…
Archaeobotanical inference of Bronze Age land use and land cover in the eastern Mediterranean
Long-term agrarian landscapes in the Troodos foothills, Cyprus
The European Modern Pollen Database (EMPD) project
Household and community behavior at Bronze Age Politiko- Troullia , Cyprus
We investigate intrasite patterns of artifacts and floral and faunal data to interpret household and community behavior at the Middle Cypriot (Bronze Age) village of Politiko-Troullia in the foothills of the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus. Floral evidence indicates cultivation of orchard crops (e.g., olive and grape), as well as the persistence of woodlands that provided wood for fuel. Animal management combined herding of domesticated sheep, goat, pi…
Species Origins, Dispersal, and Island Vegetation Dynamics in the South Pacific
We characterize the vegetation of the Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific, by exploring the effects of species–area relationships, species isolation, and long-distance dispersal. Published literature provides data for eleven main islands of Tonga on species richness, vegetation types, origins, and dispersal mechanisms. Island area, maximum elevation, distance from neighboring archipelagos, and island geology provide key variables with which to consid…
A Stone Plank Figure from Politiko- Troullia , Cyprus: Potential Implications for Inferring Bronze Age Communal Behavior
Plank figures are hallmark anthropomorphic depictions that illuminate Bronze Age society on Cyprus. The excavation of a rare limestone plank figure from a public space at Politiko-Troullia is interpreted in conjunction with spatial patterning of ceramic plank figures, plant macrofossils, animal bones, ground stone, spindle whorls, and metallurgical evidence to infer communal behavior at this Early/Middle Cypriot—period settlement. The Politiko-Tr…
Modeling vegetation dynamics in the Southern Levant through the Bronze Age
Bronze age fuel use and its implications for agrarian landscapes in the eastern Mediterranean
A Radiocarbon Sequence from Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj, Jordan and its Implications for Early Bronze IV Chronology in the Southern Levant
Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj, an agrarian Early Bronze IV village in the northern Jordan Valley, Jordan, provides a series of 24 accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) seed dates spanning seven stratified phases of occupation. Bayesian analysis of these ages reveals that habitation at Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj began between 2600 and 2500 cal BC and ended just before 2000 cal BC. This sequence provides the longest radiocarbon record of occupation for an Early Bronze IV…
Archaeobotanical inference of intermittent settlement and agriculture at Middle Bronze Age Zahrat adh-Dhra'1, Jordan
Crop management and agricultural responses at Early Bronze IV Tell Abu en-Ni'aj, Jordan
New Bayesian Radiocarbon Models and Ceramic Chronologies for Early Bronze Iv Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj and Middle Bronze Age Tell El-Hayyat, Jordan
We present two new Bayesian 14 C models using IntCal20 that incorporate 17 new calibrated AMS ages for Early Bronze IV Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj and Middle Bronze Age Tell el-Hayyat, located in the northern Jordan Valley, Jordan. These freshly augmented suites of carbonized seed dates now include 25 AMS dates from Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj and 31 AMS dates from Tell el-Hayyat. The modeled founding date for Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj strengthens an emerging high chronolog…
Sacred Spaces and Liminal Behavior in Levantine Temples in Antis
Temples in antis provide clearly defined liminal spaces for ritual behaviors that are readily recognizable both textually and archaeologically. This architectural form and the religious tradition it embodied were remarkably widespread geographically and temporally, spanning the Levant and Greater Syria from the end of the Early Bronze Age until the early Iron Age. Although the Southern Levant has been characterized as highly urbanized during the …
New Ams Chronology for the Early Bronze Iii/Iv Transition at Khirbat Iskandar, Jordan
We present the first Bayesian 14 C modeling based on AMS ages from stratified sediments representing continuous occupation across the Early Bronze III/IV interface in the Southern Levant. This new high-precision modeling incorporates 12 calibrated AMS ages from Khirbat Iskandar Area C using OxCal 4.4.4 and the IntCal 20 calibration curve to specify the EB III/IV transition at or slightly before 2500 cal BCE. Our results contribute to the continui…
Prehistoric Bronze Age Radiocarbon Chronology at Politiko- Troullia , Cyprus
Politiko- Troullia has generated the largest radiocarbon ( 14 C) dataset from a Prehistoric Bronze Age settlement on Cyprus. We present Bayesian modeling of 25 calibrated AMS ages, which contributes to an emerging multi-site 14 C chronology for Cyprus covering most of the Prehistoric Bronze Age. Our analysis places the six stratified phases of occupation at Troullia between about 2050 and 1850 cal BCE, in contrast to a longer estimated occupation…
Bayesian Modeling of a Peripheral Middle Bronze Age Settlement at Zahrat Adh-Dhra‘ 1, Jordan
Analysis of 20 calibrated accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon (AMS 14 C) ages reveals a chronology for the habitation of a unique peripheral settlement at Zahrat adh-Dhra‘ 1 (ZAD 1), Jordan during the Middle Bronze Age of the Southern Levant. Bayesian modeling distinguishes three phases of occupation between the first settlement at ZAD 1, perhaps as early as about 2050 cal BCE, and its abandonment by 1700 cal BCE. ZAD 1 represents a margina…
Bronze Age agropastoral management in central Cyprus and along the Jordan Rift
Geography (24 works) · Archaeology (19 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (18 works) · Bronze Age (17 works) · Bronze (11 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (9 works) · Geology (9 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (8 works) · Biology (8 works) · History (8 works)