... exine pattern Fertile Crescent palynology phase-contrast microscopy scanning electron microscopy (SEM) Figure 1. Map showing the location of the archaeological sites cited in the text. Lines present annual precipitation in millimetres (after Evans, Smith & Oglesby, 2004 ) and grey areas...

...E. Nevo; A. Beiles; D. Zohary 24 06 1985 26 09 1985 Abstract Genetic diversity and structure of populations of the wild progenitor of barley, Hordeum spontaneum, from three countries, Israel, Turkey and Iran, in the Near East Fertile Crescent, are compared and contrasted...

... showed high levels of morphological and taxonomic diversity; the lowest morphological diversity was observed in populations studied from the north-west, mainly belonging to subsp. tauschii var. meyeri. Aegilops squarrosa Aegilops tauschii biodiversity fertile...

... of each of the Fertile Crescent founder crops ( Heun et al. 1997 ; Badr et al. 2000 ; Zohary and Hopf 2000 ). A third view of domestication suggests that superior varieties emerged in a “core area” and were then dispersed throughout the region, displacing local genotypes ( Lev-Yadun et al. 2000...

...JL Araus; JP Ferrio; R Buxó; J Voltas The adoption and diffusion of agriculture has shaped human societies down to the present day. Western agriculture started around 10 000 BC somewhere along the Fertile Crescent in the Near East ( Hillman and Davies, 1990 ). The origins of agriculture...

... Central Asia Fertile Crescent horses Mesopotamia Aristotle Assyria Asurbanipal Darwin Charles Medes Nineveh philosophy Pliny the Elder Bible biblical creation as natural history context Epic of Gilgamesh floods herbals libraries Asurbanipal’s library Sargon Alexander the Great...

...? Is it “irreversible nature” that, once lost, cannot be renewed (like the Fertile Crescent’s fertility)? Or is it “natural value,” a goodness about nature as a whole that carries with it an ascription of value to the whole ecosphere in its own right, quite apart from human uses or even presence? And why is nature...

... acidification of shallow coastal waters. African diaspora Cambrian Explosion Fertile Crescent Great Dying Homo erectus Laurentide ice-sheet Mesozoic era Natufians Paleocene epoch Younger Dryas cold period Details blur as we peer back through millions of years, but the outline of the story is clear...

... Fertile Crescent International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas ICARDA Iraq Israel Jordan Lebanon West Bank climate change DNA genomics maize rice seeds Ugarit alphabet wheat Aegilops cylindrica Aegilops tauschii diploid goat grass conservation cultivars domestication...

..., and that they were known for their numerous encounters with the biblical Israelites and their control of the Fertile Crescent. The article also discusses the geographic extent of Ammon, the settlement patterns of the Ammonites, and their material culture and architecture. Ammon biblical references Iron Age II...

... borders North America property rights religion Sri Lanka Tsimshian Veddah Aborigines agriculture Australia Fertile Crescent India Iraq Neolithic Revolution Syria city states rivers sovereignty Sumer taxes Akhenaten border disputes Central America Egypt frontiers Mayans mobility...

... found in Yemeni, Omani, and Syrian varieties, at least, and Mehri possesses an indefinite determiner śi that functions exactly like the analogous Arabic šī. Southern Arabic speakers were probably in the Fertile Crescent as early as seven centuries before Islam and maybe...

..., and redistribution of energy. Agriculture Brazil Climate variability Egypt Fertile Crescent Global climate change Index insurance Maize Pacific Ocean The climate system envelops our planet, with swirling fluxes of mass, momentum, and energy through air, water, and land. Its processes are partly regular...

...The term ‘Fertile Crescent’ is commonly used to refer to the group of territories extending around the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates. In this book, it is assumed to consist of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Palestine. Much has been written on the history of these countries, which originated from...

...This chapter examines the history of the formation of city-states in the Fertile Crescent. It provides a working definition of city-state in both spatial and social terms, and describes the city-state, focusing on the historical periods of early Mesopotamia. The chapter also considers the ideology...

... herbaria medicinal plants Aegilops crassa Asia biodiversity botanic gardens Fertile Crescent gene banks Hordeum brevisibulatum International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas ICARDA Iran Iraq Jordan Linnaeus Carl Mauritania Morocco Ogilvie Brian Palmyra Saint Simeon...

... notoriously ambiguous, with a variety of definitions, associations and connotations, some derogatory in nature. For the purpose of the book, the Levant region will include the countries that border the eastern littoral of the Mediterranean encompassing the western region of the Fertile Crescent, an area south...

...This is a book of unexpected drama: all eleven chief rabbis appointed in this period of unprecedented change in the Jewish communities of the Fertile Crescent became the subject of controversy and were subsequently dismissed. This took place against a background of events rarely discussed...

... Gordon continuity culture–history models multi scalar approaches behavioral archaeology formation processes cross craft knowledge evolutionary archaeology dual inheritance theory social construction of technology fragmentation relational models early agriculture Fertile Crescent Neolithic...