All Outputs (4)

Fuel use in ancient Southwest Asia based on wood charcoal and seed data from fire installations (2025)
Journal Article
Deckers, K., Riehl, S., Karakaya, D., Müller, T., Badreshany, K., Tumolo, V., & Lawrence, D. (2025). Fuel use in ancient Southwest Asia based on wood charcoal and seed data from fire installations. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 62, Article 104999. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.104999

This study synthesizes a large dataset of published and new charcoal and seed data from archaeological fire installations in southwest Asia to gain an understanding in regional and temporal variation in fuel use through the last 10,000 years. It cons... Read More about Fuel use in ancient Southwest Asia based on wood charcoal and seed data from fire installations.

A history of olive and grape cultivation in Southwest Asia using charcoal and seed remains (2024)
Journal Article
Deckers, K., Riehl, S., Meadows, J., Tumolo, V., Hinojosa Balino, I., & Lawrence, D. (2024). A history of olive and grape cultivation in Southwest Asia using charcoal and seed remains. PLoS ONE, 19(6), Article e0303578. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0303578

Evaluating archaeobotanical data from over 3.9 million seeds and 124,300 charcoal fragments across 330 archaeological site phases in Southwest Asia, we reconstruct the history of olive and grape cultivation spanning a period of 6,000 years. Combining... Read More about A history of olive and grape cultivation in Southwest Asia using charcoal and seed remains.

Provisioning urbanism: a comparative urban-rural zooarchaeology of ancient Southwest Asia (2024)
Journal Article
Gaastra, J. S., Lawrence, D., & Tumolo, V. (2024). Provisioning urbanism: a comparative urban-rural zooarchaeology of ancient Southwest Asia. Antiquity, 98(398), https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.24

Historically, urban centres are seen as consumers that draw in labour and resources from their rural hinterlands. Zooarchaeological studies of key urban sites in Southwest Asia demonstrate the movement of livestock, but the region-wide application of... Read More about Provisioning urbanism: a comparative urban-rural zooarchaeology of ancient Southwest Asia.

Intensive olive production at Levantine sites. New data from Fadous-Kfarabida and Khirbet-ez Zeraqon (2021)
Journal Article
Deckers, K., Riehl, S., Tumolo, V., Genz, H., & Lawrence, D. (2021). Intensive olive production at Levantine sites. New data from Fadous-Kfarabida and Khirbet-ez Zeraqon. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 36, Article 102841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102841

During the third millennium BCE, the Levant experienced an increase in social complexity, visible in the emergence of urban forms and centralised institutions. Specialised agricultural production, particularly of olives, has long been considered a ke... Read More about Intensive olive production at Levantine sites. New data from Fadous-Kfarabida and Khirbet-ez Zeraqon.