Agricultural resources in the Bronze Age city of Tel Lachish

Abstract In this paper, we present the results of plant macrofossil analyses from site Tel Lachish, Israel with focus on botanical assemblage Middle and Late Bronze Age layers collected in two different areas tell: Area S, a trench western edge site, whose samples belong to deposits, P, palace area top mound ranging Age. Systematic sampling these analysis remains have extended our knowledge agricultural resources one most influential cities southern Levant. Multivariate statistics been applied gain insight into regional patterns crop growing. Fruit crops account for majority identified which also included large quantities Hordeum vulgare (barley) Triticum dicoccum (emmer wheat) grains. The virtual lack chaff is not solely matter preservation, since preserved fragile small seeds. Rather, finding suggests that cereal processing took place some distance deposition. Overall high diversity, ubiquity proportions fruit indicate played fundamental role their cultivation probably cultural life at Lachish throughout 15th–12th centuries bce .