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- Title
The Egyptian olive (Olea europaea subsp. europaea) in the later first millennium BC: origins and history using the morphometric analysis of olive stones.
- Authors
Newton, Claire; Terral, Jean-Frédéric; Ivorra, Sarah
- Abstract
The authors examine a sample of olive stones from Egyptian contexts and show that from the first millennium BC if not before, some of them relate to cultivars originating from the Levant. But equally prominent and just as early is another variety, of unknown origin and currently peculiar to Egypt. The method used is geometrical morphometric analysis -- essentially classifying the olive stones by their shape.
- Subjects
EGYPT; IRRIGATION; QANATS; AGRICULTURAL technology; WATER-supply engineering
- Publication
Antiquity, 2006, Vol 80, Issue 308, p405
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0003598X00093716