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  1. The Cradle of Agriculture (2000)
    Simcha Lev‐Yadun, Avi Gopher et al. Science

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EARLY NEOLITHIC DOMESTICATED AND WILD BARLEY FROM THE NETIV HAGDUD REGION IN THE JORDAN VALLEY
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Middle pleistocene dental remains from Qesem Cave (Israel)
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Has the transition to agriculture reshaped the demographic structure of prehistoric populations? New evidence from the Levant
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Paleopathology and the origin of agriculture in the Levant
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Experimental growing of wild pea in Israel and its bearing on Near Eastern plant domestication
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Evidence for habitual use of fire at the end of the Lower Paleolithic: Site-formation processes at Qesem Cave, Israel
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Uranium series dates from Qesem Cave, Israel, and the end of the Lower Palaeolithic
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Tooth wear and dental pathology at the advent of agriculture: New evidence from the Levant
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The ripples of "The Big (agricultural) Bang": the spread of early wheat cultivation
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The Chickpea, Summer Cropping, and a New Model for Pulse Domestication in the Ancient Near East
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Sixth-fifth millennia B.C. settlements in the Coastal Plain, Israel.
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Use-wear analysis of an Amudian laminar assemblage from the Acheuleo-Yabrudian of Qesem Cave, Israel
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Evidence for the repeated use of a central hearth at Middle Pleistocene (300 ky ago) Qesem Cave, Israel
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New datings of Amudian layers at Qesem Cave (Israel): results of TL applied to burnt flints and ESR/U-series to teeth
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Dental calculus reveals potential respiratory irritants and ingestion of essential plant-based nutrients at Lower Palaeolithic Qesem Cave Israel
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The Eastern Wing of the Fertile Crescent: Late prehistory of Greater Mesopotamian lithic industries
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A Holocene millennial-scale climatic cycle from a speleothem in Nahal Qanah Cave, Israel
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Atlit-Yam: A Prehistoric Site on the Sea Floor off the Israeli Coast
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Netiv Hagdud : A "Sultanian" mound in the Lower Jordan Valley
1980
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Cultures of the eighth and seventh millennia BP in the southern Levant: A review for the 1990s
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Neolithic Arrowheads of the Levant : Results and Implications of a Seriation Analysis
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Recycling bones in the Middle Pleistocene: Some reflections from Gran Dolina TD10-1 (Spain), Bolomor Cave (Spain) and Qesem Cave (Israel)
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Mammalian mitochondrial capture, a tool for rapid screening of DNA preservation in faunal and undiagnostic remains, and its application to Middle Pleistocene specimens from Qesem Cave (Israel)
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Direct luminescence chronology of the Epipaleolithic Kebaran site of Nahal Hadera V, Israel
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Plant domestication versus crop evolution: a conceptual framework for cereals and grain legumes
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Abu Salem: A Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Camp in the Central Negev Highlands, Israel
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Chickpea domestication in the Neolithic Levant through the nutritional perspective
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Agricultural Origins: Centers and Noncenters; A Near Eastern Reappraisal
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The archaeology of Netiv Hagdud
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Cooperative hunting and meat sharing 400–200 kya at Qesem Cave, Israel
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The “when”, the “where” and the “why” of the Neolithic revolution in the Levant
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