The origin and spread of olive cultivation in the Mediterranean Basin: The fossil pollen evidence

Pollen-inferred regional vegetation patterns and demographic change in Southern Anatolia through the Holocene

(2019) Jessie Woodbridge et al.   HOLOCENE

From influence to impact: The multifunctional land use in Mediterranean prehistory emerging from palynology of archaeological sites (8.0-2.8 ka BP)

(2019) Anna Maria Mercuri et al.   HOLOCENE

Mediterranean landscape change during the Holocene: Synthesis, comparison and regional trends in population, land cover and climate

(2019) Neil Roberts et al.   HOLOCENE

Prehistoric palaeodemographics and regional land cover change in eastern Iberia

(2019) Ralph M Fyfe et al.   HOLOCENE

Holocene landscape dynamics and long-term population trends in the Levant

(2019) Alessio Palmisano et al.   HOLOCENE

1H NMR, 1H–1H 2D TOCSY and GC-MS analyses for the identification of olive oil in Early Bronze Age pottery from Castelluccio (Noto, Italy)

(2018) Davide Tanasi et al.   Analytical Methods

Pan-Mediterranean Holocene vegetation and land-cover dynamics from synthesized pollen data

(2018) Jessie Woodbridge et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The onset of islandscapes in the Balearic Islands: A study-case of Addaia (northern Minorca, Spain)

(2018) Gabriel Servera-Vives et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Human management and landscape changes at Palaikastro (Eastern Crete) from the Late Neolithic to the Early Minoan period

(2018) N. Cañellas-Boltà et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Dead Sea pollen provides new insights into the paleoenvironment of the southern Levant during MIS 6–5

(2018) Chunzhu Chen et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Evidence for a humid interval at ∼56–44 ka in the Levant and its potential link to modern humans dispersal out of Africa

(2018) Dafna Langgut et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

The Citrus Route Revealed: From Southeast Asia into the Mediterranean

(2017) Dafna Langgut   HORTSCIENCE

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

(2017) Vera Schiebel et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Did Greek colonisation bring olive growing to the north? An integrated archaeobotanical investigation of the spread of Olea europaea in Greece from the 7th to the 1st millennium bc

(2017) Soultana Maria Valamoti et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Trajectories of change in Mediterranean Holocene vegetation through classification of pollen data

(2017) Ralph M. Fyfe et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Genetic variation of naturally growing olive trees in Israel: from abandoned groves to feral and wild?

(2016) Oz Barazani et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Morphology and discrimination features of pollen from Italian olive cultivars (Olea europaea L.)

(2016) Rita Messora et al.   GRANA

Mid- to late-Holocene coastal vegetation patterns in Northern Levant (Tell Sukas, Syria): Olive tree cultivation history and climatic change

(2016) Philippe Sorrel et al.   HOLOCENE

Evidence of a short-lived episode of olive (Olea europaea L.) cultivation during the Early Bronze Age in western Mediterranean (southern Italy)

(2016) Alessia D’Auria et al.   HOLOCENE

The plant component of an Acheulian diet at Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel

(2016) Yoel Melamed et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gathering and consumption of wild fruits in the east of the Iberian Peninsula from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BC

(2016) Natàlia Alonso et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Climate change since the last glacial period in Lebanon and the persistence of Mediterranean species

(2016) R. Cheddadi et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Climate, environment and society in southern Italy during the last 2000 years. A review of the environmental, historical and archaeological evidence

(2016) Laura Sadori et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Bronze Age olive domestication in the north Jordan valley: new morphological evidence for regional complexity in early arboricultural practice from Pella in Jordan

(2016) Anne Dighton et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Applied palynology as a trans-disciplinary science: the contribution of aerobiology data to forensic and palaeoenvironmental issues

(2015) Anna Maria Mercuri   AEROBIOLOGIA

“Beginnings of Fruit Growing in the Old World” – two generations later

(2015) Ehud Weiss   ISRAEL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Mid-Holocene vegetation history and Neolithic land-use in the Lake Banyoles area (Girona, Spain)

(2015) J. Revelles et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Olive cultivation in the heart of the Persian Achaemenid Empire: new insights into agricultural practices and environmental changes reflected in a late Holocene pollen record from Lake Parishan, SW Iran

(2015) Morteza Djamali et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

A comparative analysis of genetic variation in rootstocks and scions of old olive trees – a window into the history of olive cultivation practices and past genetic variation

(2014) Oz Barazani et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Prestigious fruit trees in ancient Israel: first palynological evidence for growingJuglans regiaandCitrus medica

(2014) Dafna Langgut   ISRAEL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Olive oil storage during the fifth and sixth millennia BC at Ein Zippori, Northern Israel

(2014) Dvory Namdar et al.   ISRAEL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Olive domestication and diversification in the Mediterranean Basin

(2014) Concepcion M. Diez et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Radiocarbon Evidence for the Early Bronze Age Levant: The Site of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida (Lebanon) and the End of the Early Bronze III Period

(2014) Felix Höflmayer et al.   RADIOCARBON

Olive trees as bio-indicators of climate evolution in the Mediterranean Basin

(2013) Marco Moriondo et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The complex history of the olive tree: from Late Quaternary diversification of Mediterranean lineages to primary domestication in the northern Levant

(2013) G. Besnard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Olea, Juglans and Castanea: The OJC group as pollen evidence of the development of human-induced environments in the Italian peninsula

(2013) A.M. Mercuri et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Palynological investigations at the Middle Palaeolithic site of Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet, Israel

(2013) Sophia Aharonovich et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Towards mapping the late Quaternary vegetation change of Europe

(2013) Thomas Giesecke et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Primary domestication and early uses of the emblematic olive tree: palaeobotanical, historical and molecular evidence from the Middle East

(2012) David Kaniewski et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Spatio-temporal patterns of Holocene environmental change in southern Sicily

(2012) Camilla Calò et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Holocene record of environmental changes and palaeoclimatic implications in Alykes Lagoon, Zakynthos Island, western Greece, Mediterranean Sea

(2012) P. Avramidis et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Holocene climate variability in the Levant from the Dead Sea pollen record

(2012) Thomas Litt et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Vegetation and climate changes in the South Eastern Mediterranean during the Last Glacial-Interglacial cycle (86 ka): new marine pollen record

(2011) D. Langgut et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Vegetation development and human activities in Attiki (SE Greece) during the last 5,000 years

(2011) Katerina Kouli   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Olea europaea L. in the North Mediterranean Basin during the Pleniglacial and the Early–Middle Holocene

(2010) Yolanda Carrión et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The origins of the domestication of the olive tree

(2009) Catherine Breton et al.   COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES

Anthracology and taphonomy, from wood gathering to charcoal analysis. A review of the taphonomic processes modifying charcoal assemblages, in archaeological contexts

(2009) Isabelle Théry-Parisot et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Holocene vegetation history of the Kotihi lagoon (northwest Peloponnesus, Greece)

(2009) M. Lazarova et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Character of vegetational and environmental changes in southern Europe during the last glacial period; evidence from Lesvos Island, Greece

(2009) V. Margari et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Holocene environmental and climatic changes at Gorgo Basso, a coastal lake in southern Sicily, Italy

(2009) Willy Tinner et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Luxury food and ornamental plants at the 15th century a.d. Renaissance court of the Este family (Ferrara, northern Italy)

(2009) Giovanna Bosi et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Mid- and late-Holocene vegetation and fire history at Biviere di Gela, a coastal lake in southern Sicily, Italy

(2009) Roland Noti et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Fire—vegetation interactions during the Mesolithic—Neolithic transition at Lago dell'Accesa, Tuscany, Italy

(2008) Daniele Colombaroli et al.   HOLOCENE

Plant-food preparation area on an Upper Paleolithic brush hut floor at Ohalo II, Israel

(2008) Ehud Weiss et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

A coastal reservoir of biodiversity for Upper Pleistocene human populations: palaeoecological investigations in Gorham's Cave (Gibraltar) in the context of the Iberian Peninsula

(2008) J CARRION et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Palaeoenvironmental and cultural dynamics of the coast of Málaga (Andalusia, Spain) during the Upper Pleistocene and early Holocene

(2008) M CORTESSANCHEZ et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Climate versus human-driven fire regimes in Mediterranean landscapes: the Holocene record of Lago dell’Accesa (Tuscany, Italy)

(2008) B. Vannière et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A palynological study of the Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Israel

(2008) Willem van Zeist et al.   VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY

Archaeobotanical evidence for the interrelationship of agricultural decision-making and climate change in the ancient Near East

(2007) Simone Riehl   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL