The Emergence of Fruit Tree Horticulture in Chalcolithic Southern Levant

Dafna Langgut; Arik Sasi

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-27330-8_3

The Emergence of Fruit Tree Horticulture in Chalcolithic Southern Levant

Dafna Langgut, Arik Sasi

Department of Archaeology

Tel Aviv University

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This paper reviews our current knowledge of fruit tree cultivation in the Levantine region. Plant remains recovered from archaeological excavations indicate that the olive, grapevine, fig, date palm, and pomegranate were the first fruit trees to be domesticated in southwest Asia and Europe. Compared to the evidence for the origin of cultivated cereals and pulses in the Old World, the information on the beginning of horticulture is fragmentary. This paper gathers all recent archaeological and archaeobotanical information regarding early fruit tree cultivation and argues that the central Jordan Valley may have been the primary area of their domestication. The onset of this development, which can be considered part of the Secondary Product Revolution, is dated to ca. 7000 years BP.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	“And in Length of Days Understanding” (Job 12:12
Subtitle of host publication	Essays on Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond in Honor of Thomas E. Levy
Editors	Erez Ben-Yosef, Ian W. N. Jones
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	39-58
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031273308
ISBN (Print)	9783031273292, 9783031273322
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27330-8_3
State	Published - 2023

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Name	Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
Volume	2023

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Keywords

Chalcolithic period
Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera)
Fig (Ficus carica)
Fruit tree cultivation
Fruit tree domestication
Grape (Vitis vinifera)
Olive (Olea)

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Archaeology
Archaeology

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Langgut, D., & Sasi, A. (2023). The Emergence of Fruit Tree Horticulture in Chalcolithic Southern Levant. In E. Ben-Yosef, & I. W. N. Jones (Eds.), “And in Length of Days Understanding” (Job 12:12: Essays on Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond in Honor of Thomas E. Levy (pp. 39-58). (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology; Vol. 2023). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27330-8_3

Langgut, Dafna ; Sasi, Arik. / The Emergence of Fruit Tree Horticulture in Chalcolithic Southern Levant. “And in Length of Days Understanding” (Job 12:12: Essays on Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond in Honor of Thomas E. Levy. editor / Erez Ben-Yosef ; Ian W. N. Jones. Cham : Springer Nature, 2023. pp. 39-58 (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology).

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Langgut, D & Sasi, A 2023, The Emergence of Fruit Tree Horticulture in Chalcolithic Southern Levant. in E Ben-Yosef & IWN Jones (eds), “And in Length of Days Understanding” (Job 12:12: Essays on Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond in Honor of Thomas E. Levy. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology, vol. 2023, Springer Nature, Cham, pp. 39-58. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27330-8_3

The Emergence of Fruit Tree Horticulture in Chalcolithic Southern Levant. / Langgut, Dafna; Sasi, Arik.
“And in Length of Days Understanding” (Job 12:12: Essays on Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond in Honor of Thomas E. Levy. ed. / Erez Ben-Yosef; Ian W. N. Jones. Cham: Springer Nature, 2023. p. 39-58 (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology; Vol. 2023).

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Langgut D, Sasi A. The Emergence of Fruit Tree Horticulture in Chalcolithic Southern Levant. In Ben-Yosef E, Jones IWN, editors, “And in Length of Days Understanding” (Job 12:12: Essays on Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Beyond in Honor of Thomas E. Levy. Cham: Springer Nature. 2023. p. 39-58. (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-27330-8_3

The Emergence of Fruit Tree Horticulture in Chalcolithic Southern Levant

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