Agricultural resources in the Bronze Age city of Tel Lachish
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12200090 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marco Nicolì (0000-0002-3844-2205, University of Tübingen, corresponding author), Simone Riehl (0000-0002-1744-0032, Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment), Lyndelle Webster (0000-0002-6538-4573, Macquarie University), Katharina Streit (0000-0003-2573-6738, Austrian Academy of Sciences), Felix Höflmayer (0000-0002-6784-0536, Austrian Academy of Sciences) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 559-577 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Vegetation History and Archaeobotany (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0939-6314 • E-ISSN: 1617-6278 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s00334-022-00873-2 |
| OpenAlex | W4214894125 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 29 |
In this paper, we present the results of the plant macrofossil analyses from the site of Tel Lachish, Israel with focus on the botanical assemblage of the Middle and Late Bronze Age layers collected in two different areas of the tell: Area S, a trench on the western edge of the site, whose samples belong to Late Bronze Age deposits, and Area P, the palace area on the top of the mound with samples ranging from the Middle to Late Bronze Age. Systematic sampling of these areas and analysis of the remains have extended our knowledge of the agricultural resources of one of the most influential Late Bronze Age cities in the southern Levant. Multivariate statistics have been applied to gain insight into regional patterns of crop growing. Fruit crops account for the majority of the identified remains from this site, which also included large quantities of Hordeum vulgare (barley) and Triticum dicoccum (emmer wheat) grains. The virtual lack of chaff remains is not solely a matter of preservation, since the Late Bronze Age assemblage preserved fragile small seeds. Rather, this finding suggests that cereal processing took place some distance from the area of deposition. Overall high diversity, ubiquity and proportions of fruit crops indicate that these played a fundamental role in their cultivation and probably also in cultural life at Lachish throughout the 15th–12th centuries bce
Agriculture · Archaeology · Assemblage (archaeology · Biology · Bronze · Bronze Age · Crop · Geography · Hordeum vulgare · Iron Age · Macrofossil · Poaceae · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Isotope Analysis in Ecology · Ecology · Forestry
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |