Kathleen M Forste
Biographic Data
| ID | 179457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen M Forste |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Forste |
| SIGNATURE | FORSTE K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5042-5304 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Byzantine plants
Expanding Cultural and Natural Heritage Through Archaeology
In this article we apply the Cultural Keystone Place (CKP) framework to the island of Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, to explore the importance of archaeology in enhancing connections to and valuation of natural and cultural landscapes. Through a brief overview of recent investments made on the island in the environment, agricultural and food heritage, as well as cultural heritage, we discuss the implications of the narrative created by what is…
Cultivating the Hills and the Sands
This article investigates how agricultural choices were driven by political, social and environmental conditions in Palestine during the Early Islamic period (c. 636–1099 CE) through the analysis of charred archaeobotanical assemblages from three archaeological sites in the southern Levant. These sites – the coastal urban centres of Ashkelon and Caesarea Maritima, and the large inland village of Neby Zakaria – are situated in different environmen…
Arboriculture and Viticulture as Investment in the Early Islamic Levant
This article combines historical and archaeological evidence to investigate the role arboriculture played in the agricultural economy in the southern Levant as centers of production moved away from rural agricultural estates and focused instead on urban centers. Integrating this evidence with archaeobotanical data from Early Islamic deposits at the archaeological site of Ashkelon, located on the southern Mediterranean coast of modern-day Israel, …
Urban agricultural economy of the Early Islamic southern Levant
An Intrasite Analysis of Agricultural Economy at Early Islamic Caesarea Maritima, Israel
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 carbonized wood and non-wood macrobotanical remains recovered from two residential neighborhoods to investigate the production and consumption of agricultural plant products. The identified crop and wood taxa are typical for the Mediterranean coast. Wild seeds point …
Disturbing Developments
It has long been thought that the only means by which the American Southwest's extensive pinyon-juniper woodlands, with their inherently low primary productivity, could have supported indigenous populations during prehispanic times was with the transformative consequences associated with the widespread cultivation of low-moisture-intolerant domesticated plants, principally maize ( Zea mays L.). In this paper we present an alternative to this orth…
Fire-reliant subsistence economies and anthropogenic coniferous ecosystems in the Pre-Columbian northern American Southwest
Fire-reliant subsistence economies and anthropogenic coniferous ecosystems in the Pre-Columbian northern American Southwest
An Intrasite Analysis of Agricultural Economy at Early Islamic Caesarea Maritima, Israel
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 carbonized wood and non-wood macrobotanical remains recovered from two residential neighborhoods to investigate the production and consumption of agricultural plant products. The identified crop and wood taxa are typical for the Mediterranean coast. Wild seeds point …
Cultivating the Hills and the Sands
This article investigates how agricultural choices were driven by political, social and environmental conditions in Palestine during the Early Islamic period (c. 636–1099 CE) through the analysis of charred archaeobotanical assemblages from three archaeological sites in the southern Levant. These sites – the coastal urban centres of Ashkelon and Caesarea Maritima, and the large inland village of Neby Zakaria – are situated in different environmen…
Arboriculture and Viticulture as Investment in the Early Islamic Levant
This article combines historical and archaeological evidence to investigate the role arboriculture played in the agricultural economy in the southern Levant as centers of production moved away from rural agricultural estates and focused instead on urban centers. Integrating this evidence with archaeobotanical data from Early Islamic deposits at the archaeological site of Ashkelon, located on the southern Mediterranean coast of modern-day Israel, …
Urban agricultural economy of the Early Islamic southern Levant
Fire-reliant subsistence economies and anthropogenic coniferous ecosystems in the Pre-Columbian northern American Southwest
Disturbing Developments
It has long been thought that the only means by which the American Southwest's extensive pinyon-juniper woodlands, with their inherently low primary productivity, could have supported indigenous populations during prehispanic times was with the transformative consequences associated with the widespread cultivation of low-moisture-intolerant domesticated plants, principally maize ( Zea mays L.). In this paper we present an alternative to this orth…
An Intrasite Analysis of Agricultural Economy at Early Islamic Caesarea Maritima, Israel
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 carbonized wood and non-wood macrobotanical remains recovered from two residential neighborhoods to investigate the production and consumption of agricultural plant products. The identified crop and wood taxa are typical for the Mediterranean coast. Wild seeds point …
Urban agricultural economy of the Early Islamic southern Levant
Arboriculture and Viticulture as Investment in the Early Islamic Levant
This article combines historical and archaeological evidence to investigate the role arboriculture played in the agricultural economy in the southern Levant as centers of production moved away from rural agricultural estates and focused instead on urban centers. Integrating this evidence with archaeobotanical data from Early Islamic deposits at the archaeological site of Ashkelon, located on the southern Mediterranean coast of modern-day Israel, …
Cultivating the Hills and the Sands
This article investigates how agricultural choices were driven by political, social and environmental conditions in Palestine during the Early Islamic period (c. 636–1099 CE) through the analysis of charred archaeobotanical assemblages from three archaeological sites in the southern Levant. These sites – the coastal urban centres of Ashkelon and Caesarea Maritima, and the large inland village of Neby Zakaria – are situated in different environmen…
Byzantine plants
Expanding Cultural and Natural Heritage Through Archaeology
In this article we apply the Cultural Keystone Place (CKP) framework to the island of Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, to explore the importance of archaeology in enhancing connections to and valuation of natural and cultural landscapes. Through a brief overview of recent investments made on the island in the environment, agricultural and food heritage, as well as cultural heritage, we discuss the implications of the narrative created by what is…
Agriculture (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (5 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Paleoethnobotany (4 works) · Agroforestry (3 works) · Environmental Science (3 works) · Forestry (3 works)