{"id":6149,"date":"2021-03-16T10:51:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T08:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/?p=6149"},"modified":"2021-03-16T10:51:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T08:51:34","slug":"ancient-to-recent-past-runoff-harvesting-agriculture-in-the-hyper-arid-arava-valley-osl-dating-and-insights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/ancient-to-recent-past-runoff-harvesting-agriculture-in-the-hyper-arid-arava-valley-osl-dating-and-insights\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient to recent-past runoff harvesting agriculture in the hyper-arid Arava Valley: OSL dating and insights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong> Ilan Stavi, Gidon Ragolsky, Mordechai Haiman, Naomi Porat<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published in:<\/strong> Holocene<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177%2F0959683621994641\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0959683621994641<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Runoff harvesting agriculture was prevalent in ancient times across the southern Levant. In modern Israel, remnants of this agricultural adaptation strategy are widespread mostly in the semi-arid and arid Negev. Extensive literature has thoroughly described the farming systems of this region. However, runoff agriculture in the dryer, hyper-arid regions of the Arava Valley and southern Negev (excluding the Uvda Valley), has scarcely been researched. A recent study revealed remnants of simple stone terraces in several wadis (ephemeral stream channels) throughout the central Arava Valley that have not yet been dated. The objective of this study was to use the <em>Optically Stimulated Luminescence<\/em> (OSL) method to date sediments trapped in the stone terraces. The results revealed dominance of terraces dated to the Ottoman period (1516\u20131917 CE). Few samples were dated to the earlier Late Islamic period (1099\u20131516 CE) or Byzantine period (324\u2013638 CE), and to the later, modern period of the mid-20<sup>th<\/sup> century. Generally, these periods coincide with relatively moister regional climatic conditions, which prevailed in the 4<sup>th<\/sup>, 11<sup>th<\/sup>\u201312<sup>th<\/sup>, and late 19<sup>th<\/sup> centuries CE. Yet, our findings also concur with periods of effective governance by central administrations. Therefore, results of this study fit the concept that runoff agriculture practiced in peripheral areas in ancient to recent times was co-determined by climatic settings and geo-political conditions, which enabled human inhabitation in these regions.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig.-Stone-terraces_Dmamam-182-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig.-Stone-terraces_Dmamam-182-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig.-Stone-terraces_Dmamam-182-scaled-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig.-Stone-terraces_Dmamam-182-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig.-Stone-terraces_Dmamam-182-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig.-Stone-terraces_Dmamam-182-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig.-Stone-terraces_Dmamam-182-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors: Ilan Stavi, Gidon Ragolsky, Mordechai Haiman, Naomi Porat Published in: Holocene More information: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0959683621994641 Abstract Runoff harvesting agriculture was prevalent in ancient times across the southern Levant. In modern Israel, remnants of this agricultural adaptation strategy are widespread mostly in the semi-arid and arid Negev. Extensive literature has thoroughly described the farming systems of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-article"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Fig.-Stone-terraces_Dmamam-182-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6151,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6149\/revisions\/6151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}