The Origins of Terracing in the Southern Levant and Patch Cultivation/Box Fields
This paper looks at various suggestions relating to what incipient and early forms of terracing might have looked like, and goes on to suggest that some of the earliest terraces in the southern Levant may have emerged from horticultural practices, and more specifically the cultivation of olive trees...
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| description | This paper looks at various suggestions relating to what incipient and early forms of terracing might have looked like, and goes on to suggest that some of the earliest terraces in the southern Levant may have emerged from horticultural practices, and more specifically the cultivation of olive trees within sunken patches of soil on rocky hillslopes (referred to as “patch cultivation” or “box fields”). This phenomenon may be traced back to the Chalcolithic period (4th millennium B.C.E), if not to earlier times. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b77c4c9da42b44579c7d5aa5b55906d22022-12-21T22:36:54ZengSciendoJournal of Landscape Ecology1805-41962017-12-0110325626510.1515/jlecol-2017-0037jlecol-2017-0037The Origins of Terracing in the Southern Levant and Patch Cultivation/Box FieldsGibson Shimon0Lewis Rafael Y.1Department of History, University of North Carolina at CharlotteDepartment of Archaeology, University of HaifaThis paper looks at various suggestions relating to what incipient and early forms of terracing might have looked like, and goes on to suggest that some of the earliest terraces in the southern Levant may have emerged from horticultural practices, and more specifically the cultivation of olive trees within sunken patches of soil on rocky hillslopes (referred to as “patch cultivation” or “box fields”). This phenomenon may be traced back to the Chalcolithic period (4th millennium B.C.E), if not to earlier times.https://doi.org/10.1515/jlecol-2017-0037terracespatch cultivationbox fieldscup-markschalcolithic periodlandscape archaeologysouthern levant |
| spellingShingle | Gibson Shimon Lewis Rafael Y. The Origins of Terracing in the Southern Levant and Patch Cultivation/Box Fields Journal of Landscape Ecology terraces patch cultivation box fields cup-marks chalcolithic period landscape archaeology southern levant |
| title | The Origins of Terracing in the Southern Levant and Patch Cultivation/Box Fields |
| title_full | The Origins of Terracing in the Southern Levant and Patch Cultivation/Box Fields |
| title_fullStr | The Origins of Terracing in the Southern Levant and Patch Cultivation/Box Fields |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Origins of Terracing in the Southern Levant and Patch Cultivation/Box Fields |
| title_short | The Origins of Terracing in the Southern Levant and Patch Cultivation/Box Fields |
| title_sort | origins of terracing in the southern levant and patch cultivation box fields |
| topic | terraces patch cultivation box fields cup-marks chalcolithic period landscape archaeology southern levant |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/jlecol-2017-0037 |
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