The Origins of Terracing in the Southern Levant and Patch Cultivation/Box Fields

Journal of Landscape Ecology

Lewis Rafael Y.¹  Gibson Shimon² 

[1] Department of Archaeology, University of Haifa;Department of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte;

关键词: terraces;    patch cultivation;    box fields;    cup-marks;    chalcolithic period;    landscape archaeology;    southern levant;   

DOI  :  10.1515/jlecol-2017-0037

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

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