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Bar-Ilan University: Ramat Gan, Israel, IL

2005 to present | Lecturer (Life Sciences)
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Yoel Melamed

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Bar-Ilan University: Ramat Gan, IL

1999-11-01 to 2003-12-25 | PhD (The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences)
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Works (24)

Starch-rich plant foods 780,000 y ago: Evidence from Acheulian percussive stone tools

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2025-01-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Hadar Ahituv; Amanda G. Henry; Yoel Melamed; Naama Goren-Inbar; Corrie Bakels; Lyudmila Shumilovskikh; Dan Cabanes; Jeffery R. Stone; Walter F. Rowe; Nira Alperson-Afil
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The Association of Arable Weeds with Modern Wild Cereal Habitats: Implications for Reconstructing the Origins of Plant Cultivation in the Levant

Environmental Archaeology
2023 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85101053292

Part of ISSN: 17496314 14614103
Contributors: Weide, A.; Hodgson, J.G.; Leschner, H.; Dovrat, G.; Whitlam, J.; Manela, N.; Melamed, Y.; Osem, Y.; Bogaard, A.
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Unprecedented yet gradual nature of first millennium CE intercontinental crop plant dispersal revealed in ancient Negev desert refuse

eLife
2023-11-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Daniel Fuks; Yoel Melamed; Dafna Langgut; Tali Erickson-Gini; Yotam Tepper; Guy Bar-Oz; Ehud Weiss
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Unprecedented yet gradual nature of first millennium CE intercontinental crop plant dispersal revealed in ancient Negev desert refuse

2022-12-02 | Preprint
Contributors: Daniel Fuks; Yoel Melamed; Dafna Langgut; Tali Erickson-Gini; Yotam Tepper; Guy Bar-Oz; Ehud Weiss
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Plant Remains from Rothenberg’s Excavations in Timna: Smelters’ Food and Cultic Offerings at the Turn of the First Millennium BCE

Tel Aviv
2022-07-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Michal David; Mordechai Kislev; Yoel Melamed; Erez Ben-Yosef; Ehud Weiss
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Agricultural subsistence, land use and long-distance mobility within the Early Bronze Age southern Levant: Archaeobotanical evidence from the urban site of Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī/Gath

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
2021 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85102383354

Part of ISSN: 2352409X
Contributors: Frumin, S.; Melamed, Y.; Maeir, A.M.; Greenfield, H.J.; Weiss, E.
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Archaeobotanical proxies and archaeological interpretation: A comparative study of phytoliths, pollen and seeds in dung pellets and refuse deposits at Early Islamic Shivta, Negev, Israel

Quaternary Science Reviews
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85063493165

Part of ISSN: 02773791
Contributors: Dunseth, Z.C.; Fuks, D.; Langgut, D.; Weiss, E.; Melamed, Y.; Butler, D.H.; Yan, X.; Boaretto, E.; Tepper, Y.; Bar-Oz, G. et al.
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Foreign food plants as prestigious gifts: The archaeobotany of the Amarna age palace at tel Beth-Shemesh, Israel

Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85065768212

Part of ISSN: 21618062 0003097X
Contributors: Weiss, E.; Mahler-Slasky, Y.; Melamed, Y.; Lederman, Z.; Bunimovitz, S.; Bubel, S.; Manor, D.
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Evidence for climatic changes around the Matuyama-Brunhes Boundary (MBB) inferred from a multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental study of the GBY#2 core, Jordan River Valley, Israel

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
2018-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Maria Sekar Proborukmi; Brigitte Urban; Steffen Mischke; Henk K. Mienis; Yoel Melamed; Guillaume Dupont-Nivet; Fred Jourdan; Naama Goren-Inbar
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Palaeo-environmental archive of groundwater-surface water interaction zone, the Kebara wetlands, Carmel coast, Israel

Quaternary International
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84960218617

Part of ISSN: 10406182
Contributors: Sivan, D.; Greenbaum, N.; Cohen-Seffer, R.; Sisma-Ventura, G.; Almogi-Labin, A.; Porat, N.; Melamed, Y.; Boaretto, E.; Avnaim-Katav, S.
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The plant component of an Acheulian diet at Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2016 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0027-8424
Contributors: Yoel Melamed; Mordechai E. Kislev; Eli Geffen; Simcha Lev-Yadun; Naama Goren-Inbar
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Invading a new niche: obligatory weeds at Neolithic Atlit-Yam, Israel

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84922074658

Part of ISSN: 16176278 09396314
Contributors: Hartmann-Shenkman, A.; Kislev, M.E.; Galili, E.; Melamed, Y.; Weiss, E.
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The origin of cultivation and proto-weeds, long before neolithic farming

PLoS ONE
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84941800364

Part of ISSN: 19326203
Contributors: Snir, A.; Nadel, D.; Groman-Yaroslavski, I.; Melamed, Y.; Sternberg, M.; Bar-Yosef, O.; Weiss, E.
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Beneath still waters - Multistage aquatic exploitation of euryale ferox (Salisb.) during the Acheulian

Internet Archaeology
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84899793067

Part of ISSN: 13635387
Contributors: Goren-Inbar, N.; Melamed, Y.; Zohar, I.; Akhilesh, K.; Pappu, S.
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Botanical remains from the excavation on the Southern Beach of Ashdod

Atiqot
2013 | Book
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2-s2.0-84884303207

Part of ISSN: 07928424
Contributors: Melamed, Y.
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Extinction of water plants in the Hula Valley: Evidence for climate change

Journal of Human Evolution
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-79952362804

Part of ISSN: 00472484
Contributors: Melamed, Y.; Kislev, M.; Weiss, E.; Simchoni, O.
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Flax seed production: Evidence from the early Iron Age site of Tel Beth-Shean, Israel and from written sources

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
2011 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-80255131335

Part of ISSN: 09396314
Contributors: Kislev, M.E.; Simchoni, O.; Melamed, Y.; Maroz, L.
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Climate variability in the Upper Jordan Valley around 0.78 Ma, inferences from time-series stable isotopes of Viviparidae, supported by mollusc and plant palaeoecology

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
2009 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-70349482157

Part of ISSN: 00310182
Contributors: Spiro, B.; Ashkenazi, S.; Mienis, H.K.; Melamed, Y.; Feibel, C.; Delgado, A.; Starinsky, A.
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Lathyrus clymenum L. in Israel: A "revival" of an ancient species

Israel Journal of Plant Sciences
2009 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-70350334695

Part of ISSN: 07929978
Contributors: Melamed, Y.; Plitmann, U.; Shmida, A.; Golan, O.
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Spatial Organization of Hominin Activities at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Israel

Science
2009 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0036-8075
Contributors: Nira Alperson-Afil; Gonen Sharon; Mordechai Kislev; Yoel Melamed; Irit Zohar; Shosh Ashkenazi; Rivka Rabinovich; Rebecca Biton; Ella Werker; Gideon Hartman et al.
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Vicia peregrina: An edible early Neolithic legume

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
2008 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-57049170804

Part of ISSN: 09396314
Contributors: Melamed, Y.; Plitmann, U.; Kislev, M.E.
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Evidence of Hominin Control of Fire at Gesher Benot Ya`aqov, Israel

Science
2004-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0036-8075
Contributors: Naama Goren-Inbar; Nira Alperson; Mordechai E. Kislev; Orit Simchoni; Yoel Melamed; Adi Ben-Nun; Ella Werker
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Nuts, nut cracking, and pitted stones at Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov, Israel

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2002-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0027-8424
Contributors: Naama Goren-Inbar; Gonen Sharon; Yoel Melamed; Mordechai Kislev
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Pleistocene Milestones on the Out-of-Africa Corridor at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel

Science
2000-08-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0036-8075
Contributors: Naama Goren-Inbar; Craig S. Feibel; Kenneth L. Verosub; Yoel Melamed; Mordechai E. Kislev; Eitan Tchernov; Idit Saragusti
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