Dead Sea pollen record and history of human activity in the Judean Highlands (Israel) from the Intermediate Bronze into the Iron Ages (∼2500–500 BCE)

Langgut, Dafna; Neumann, Frank; Stein, Mordechai; Wagner, Allon; Kagan, Elisa J.; Boaretto, Elisabetta; Finkelstein, Israel

doi:10.1080/01916122.2014.906001

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“…A maximum value of Mediterranean trees was documented around 1000 BCE. The increase in moisture during the Iron I is also evident from the Dead Sea pollen records (Neumann et al 2007a;Litt et al 2012;Langgut et al forthcoming). The improved conditions during the Iron I enabled the recovery of settlement activity.…”

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confidence: 71%

“…1250 and 1100 BCE. Three other high resolution southern Levant pollen records point to a dry event at the end of the Late Bronze and the transition to the Iron I (Kaniewski et al 2010;Bernhardt et al 2012;Langgut et al forthcoming). However, since the chronological framework of the first two studies is less rigorous than the one used here, there are slight differences between these records concerning the exact time and duration of the Late Bronze dry event.…”

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“…The pollen records from the western margin of the Dead Sea (Neumann et al 2007a;Litt et al 2012;Langgut et al forthcoming) indicate an unconformity in the sediment deposition at the end of the Late Bronze Age. At that time sediments were embedded in a terrestrial environment and not in a lake environment as they were during previous and subsequent periods.…”

Section: The Late Bronze Agementioning

confidence: 99%

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“…This wellestablished approach was first used in northern and central European regions (Birks et al 1988;Faegri & Iversen 1989;Behre & Jacomet 1991), then in other regions such as the Mediterranean one (Sadori et al 2004;Mercuri et al 2012;Galop et al 2013;Orengo et al 2014), Africa (Mercuri 2008;Picornell Gelabert et al 2011;Giraudi et al 2012;Cremaschi et al 2014;Hély et al 2014) and Americas (Pearsall 2000;Anderson et al 2013). Valuable integration between palaeoclimate studies and natural resource management in Australia (Saunders & Taffs 2009;Mills et al 2013) and on fairly synchronous social and environmental changes in Asia (Asouti 2005;Biehl 2012;Masi et al 2013aMasi et al , 2013bLanggut et al 2014) are also known.…”

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Palaeoecology and long-term human impact in plant biology

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Marignani

Sadori

2015

Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all As

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Human impact is a collective concept that requires a holistic approach. Human needs eventually caused the development of cultural landscapes that are at the base of the current landscapes. The papers included in this special issue are evidence that cooperation between different disciplines helps to deepen the trend of environmental transformation from past to future. Palaeoecology studies ecosystems of the past and needs archaeology to deepen sociocultural intervention in environmental patterns. In a similar way, ecologists have to include the complexity of societies and economies into landscape ecology by adding principles of human ecology into sustainability science. A brief history of previous actions encouraging the integration of palynology, archaeobotany, archaeology, botany and ecology is reported. The application of integrated studies comes to a new point, the research on the Long-Term Human Impact

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“…Pollen diagrams are also available from the west shore of the Dead Sea, which allow a reliable reconstruction of the vegetation history of the past 3,500 years (late Holocene); longer Holocene records are discontinuous (Baruch 1990;Heim et al 1997;Neumann et al 2007bNeumann et al , 2010Langgut et al 2014). A 21 m sediment core taken from the Dead Sea shore near Ein Gedi provides the most continuous and best dated palynological record of nearly the entire Holocene period in the southern Levant (Litt et al 2012).…”

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Holocene vegetation history of the southern Levant based on a pollen record from Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), Israel

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Litt

2017

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Lake Kinneret, also known as the Sea of Galilee and Lake Tiberias, is located in the northeast of Israel. At a lake level of 211 m b.s.l. (below mean sea level), the central basin is 43 m deep. The maximum length of the lake is 21 km (N-S) and its maximum width is 12 km (W-E). Lake Kinneret's surface area is 166 km 2 . A new 17.8 m long sedimentary core was drilled in 2010. Here, we present the entire palynological record from it, which covers the last ~ 9,000 years. Special emphasis is given to the natural and human-influenced vegetation history of Galilee in comparison to that of the more southerly Dead Sea region. Significant signs of human impact are the first Olea (olive) increase during the beginning of the Chalcolithic period between 7,000 and 6,500 years ago, as well as the prominent Olea phase during the Hellenistic/Roman/Byzantine period between 2,300 and 1,500 years ago. Mediterranean macchia and bathas scrub vegetation, as known in the area today, has developed in the southern Levant under human impact since the last ca. 1,500 years.

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Dead Sea pollen record and history of human activity in the Judean Highlands (Israel) from the Intermediate Bronze into the Iron Ages (∼2500–500 BCE)

Cited by 88 publications

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Climate and the Late Bronze Collapse: New Evidence from the Southern Levant

Climate and the Late Bronze Collapse: New Evidence from the Southern Levant

Palaeoecology and long-term human impact in plant biology

Holocene vegetation history of the southern Levant based on a pollen record from Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), Israel

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