although the zarzian was first identified in the 1920s, it has not been until recently that detailed investigations of it have been undertaken. in contrast to the intensive research on the epipaleolithic period in the levant, the zarzian in the zagros area is less well known, although it shares some similarities (as well as differences) with the levantine epipaleolithic including trajectories o...

The current view for the southern Levant is that wild game hunting was replaced by herd management over the course of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period, but there is significant debate over the timing, scale and origin of this transition. To date, most relevant studies focus either on wild game exploitation in the periods prior to domestication or on classic markers of domestication of domesti...

The earliest credible evidence of Homo sapiens in Europe is an archaeological proxy in the form of several artifact assemblages (Bohunician) found in South-Central and possibly Eastern Europe, dating to <48,000 calibrated radiocarbon years before present (cal BP). They are similar to assemblages probably made by modern humans in the Levant (Emiran) at an earlier date and apparently represent a ...

Abstract In this paper we present the analysis of archaeobotanical material retrieved by means flotation from well-secured features during recent excavation work carried out in 2019 and 2020 German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project Seleucid-founded town Nysa-Scythopolis. Founded under Antiochus IV Epiphanes (175–164 bce ) destroyed Hasmonaeans later years John Hyrcanus (in 108/07 ), site ...

Even though the faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is among the most ubiquitously cultivated crops, very little is known about its origins. Here, we report discoveries of charred faba beans from three adjacent Neolithic sites in the lower Galilee region, in the southern Levant, that offer new insights into the early history of this species. Biometric measurements, radiocarbon dating and stable carbon is...