Motti Zohar. Yuval Ben-Bassat, Guy Bar-Oz From  Historical roots of heritage horticulture in the southern coastal plain of Israel .  Land , 14: 285. This study reconstructs the agricultural landscape of the southern coastal plain of late Ottoman and British Mandatory Palestine (today southwestern Israel) utilizing late 19th and early 20th century cartographic materials and aerial photographs. Immense human effort and ingenuity were required to maintain sustainable agricultura

Roy Galili, Ariel  Meroz,  Yuval Cohen, and Guy Bar-Oz From  Forest : Journal of Forests and Open Land Management , 28: 8-19 (in Hebrew). Date palms are a key species in the ecology of the desert. Populations of date palms have a high capacity for survival, but despite their resilience to changing environmental conditions, they are sensitive to fluctuations in the groundwater level and to the quality of the water around their root zone. The condition of many wild date palms,

Inna Kizhner,  Gil Gambash,  Guy Bar-Oz, and Gideon Avni From Levant , 56: 408-424 (2024). To explore the consumption patterns and demand for famous wines exported in Late Antiquity, such as Gaza wine and Cilician wine, several case studies were analyzed: studies involving excavation results from sites where Late Roman amphorae, such as the LRA 1 and LRA 4 types, were found. Several themes emerged from the analysis. First, Gaza jars used for the transportation of Gaza wine se

Land , 2025, 14, 285. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020285 The article reconstructs the agricultural landscape of the southern coastal...

Barak Garty, Gil Gambash, Sharona T. Levy, Guy Bar-Oz From PLoS One , 20: e0325204. Viticulture was a vital agricultural and economic activity during the Byzantine period, also in marginal regions like the Negev Desert. Innovative dryland farming techniques, such as runoff harvesting systems, terraces, and pigeon towers, enabled intensive grape cultivation and a thriving wine export economy. This study focuses on the resilience and adaptability of viticulture in the hinterlan

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PLOS One,  July  10, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0325204 Barak Garty, Gil Gambash, Sharona T. Levy, Guy Bar-Oz The article discusses how innovative dryland farming tech­niques, such as runoff harvesting systems, terraces, and pigeon towers, enabled intensive grape cultivation and a thriving wine export economy in the Byzantine era Negev desert. The study focuses on the resilience and adaptability of viticulture in the Shivta hinterland, analyzing how climatic ch

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, LVI:1 (Summer, 2025), 43–79. https://doi.org/10.1162/JINH.a.3 Shulamit Miller, Guy Bar-Oz, Eyal Ben-Eliyahu, and Gil Gambash The article discusses viticulture as a prolific form of horticulture throughout Mediterranean history, especially during the Roman period and throughout Late Antiquity. Vintners across the greater Mediterranean produced wines of varying qualities that could be sold at a range of prices in local markets and taverns o

Ya’ar , 2025, June, #28. https://www.kkl.org.il/forest_online_journal_yaar28/ Roi Galilee, Ariel Maroz, Yuval Cohen, Guy Bar-Oz   The date palm ( Phoenix dactylifera ) is a hydrophilic plant that naturally evolved in moist environments within desert regions. The palm’s high tolerance to soil and water salinity, unique familial structure, and reproduction via both sexual and vegetative means confer a high degree of resilience on date populations. Yet, date palms are sensitive

Shulamit Miller, Guy Bar-Oz, Eyal Ben Eliyahu, Gil Gambash From  Journal of Interdisciplinary History , 56: 43-79. Viticulture in Late Antiquity was a widespread, economically vital, and regionally diverse form of horticulture in the Mediterranean world, and archaeological and textual sources such as rabbinical literature shed light on viticulture, particularly in Palestine. Vineyard cultivation was shaped by local geography, climate, and religious norms, with techniques rang

Eli Ashkenazi, Ido Wachtel, Guy Bar-Oz, Roy Marom and Liora Kolska Horwitz From Heritage , 8: 76. This study documented two relict traditional Palestinian orchards; one was abandoned following the 1948 war when the farmers were exiled to Lebanon and the second was tended by farmers up until the early 1970s. The orchards examined are located in two different Mediterranean phytogeographic regions, one in the hilly Upper Galilee and the other on the slopes of Mount Carmel in the

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Heritage , 2025, 8, 76. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage8020076 Eli Ashkenazi , Ido Wachtel, Guy Bar-Oz, Roy Marom, and Liora Kolska Horwitz The article discusses two relict traditional Palestinian orchards: one was abandoned following the 1948 war when the farmers were exiled to Lebanon, and the second was tended by farmers up until the early 1970s. The orchards are located in two different Mediterranean phytogeographic regions, one in the hilly Upper Galilee and the other o

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Guy Bar Oz and Joshua Schmidt In preparation for Trends in Plant Sciences Historical farmers used selection and diffusion to ensure that...