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References from DateBack, an evolving open-access repository of Phoenix archaeobotanical data supporting new perspectives on the history of date palm cultivation. Local targets link to admitted publications; unresolved targets remain external evidence.
Die Brennstoffressourcen im Raum Fenan (Wadi Araba, Jordanien) und die bei der Kupferverhüttung verwendeten Brennstoffe
1989 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1980 · External reference
A Monograph of Phoenix L. (Palmae: Coryphoideae)
10.2307/4110478 · 1998 · External reference
Comparable quantification methodologies in archaeobotany – a work-in-progress and debate
10.1007/s00334-023-00982-6 · 2024 · External reference
Archaeobotanical evidence for early date consumption in the Arabian Gulf
2003 · External reference
Archaeobotanical evidence for early date consumption on Dalma Island, United Arab Emirates
10.1017/s0003598x00052765 · 2001 · External reference
Interpretative scenarios emerging from plant micro- and macroremains in the Iron Age site of Salut, Sultanate of Oman
10.1016/j.jas.2011.06.021 · 2011 · External reference
The beginning of Iron Age copper production in the southern Levant: new evidence from Khirbat al-Jariya, Faynan, Jordan
10.1017/s0003598x00100195 · 2010 · External reference
Main data for DateBack
10.23708/4zhyzu · 2025 · External reference
Radiocarbon data table for date palm remains for DateBack
10.23708/c5n9cm · 2025 · External reference
Source code for DateBack
10.23708/knqin1 · 2025 · External reference
Experimental waterlogging of grape seeds, impact on seed shape and geometrical reversing for morphometric inference
10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104204 · 2023 · External reference
Optimal use of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) during Antiquity : Anatomical identification of plant remains from Madâ’in Sâlih (Saudi Arabia)
2012 · External reference
The environmental context of Paleolithic settlement at Jebel Faya, Emirate Sharjah, UAE
10.1016/j.quaint.2013.01.028 · 2013 · External reference
10.2307/j.ctt20p56g8
10.2307/j.ctt20p56g8 · 2012 · External reference
10.2307/j.ctv23wf387
10.2307/j.ctv23wf387 · 2021 · External reference
Collection of Plant Remains from Archaeological Contexts
10.1007/978-3-319-19944-3_25 · 2015 · External reference
shiny: Web Application Framework for R
10.32614/cran.package.shiny · 2012 · External reference
leaflet: Create Interactive Web Maps with the JavaScript 'Leaflet' Library
10.32614/cran.package.leaflet · 2015 · External reference
Genomics and morphometry of herbarium specimens elucidate the origin of the Cape Verde date palm (Phoenix atlantica A.Chev.) and highlight its agronomic potential
10.1002/ppp3.10632 · 2025 · External reference
Construire et protéger son terroir: les oasis d'Oman à l'Âge du Bronze.
1997 · External reference
Hili and the beginning of oasis life in eastern Arabia
1982 · External reference
Pourquoi si tard ? Nous avons pris un autre chemin : l’Arabie des chasseurs-cueilleurs de l’Holocène au début de l’âge du Bronze
2004 · External reference
Wild plant use in European Neolithic subsistence economies: a formal assessment of preservation bias in archaeobotanical assemblages and the implications for understanding changes in plant diet breadth
10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.07.013 · 2014 · External reference
The Beginning of Agriculture in the Kachi Plain: the Evidence of Mehrgarh
1984 · External reference
Considerazioni su alcuni reperti di palma da dattero e sul centro di origine e l’area di coltivazione della Phoenix dactylifera L.. Rome
1985 · External reference
Harappan agriculture in Pakistan: the evidence of Nausharo
1990 · External reference
Ecology and Farming of the Protohistoric Communities in the Central Yemeni Highlands
1990 · External reference
Inference from large sets of radiocarbon dates: Software and methods
10.1017/rdc.2020.95 · 2021 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2019 · External reference
A tale of new crops in the arid Arabian Peninsula oasis from antiquity to the early Islamic period
10.1007/s00334-023-00976-4 · 2024 · External reference
Vegetation, land, and wood use at the sites of Bat and Al-Khashbah in Oman (fourth–third millennium BC)
10.1111/aae.12123 · 2019 · External reference
Holocene Vegetation, Climate, Land Use and Plant Cultivation in the Tayma Region, Northwestern Arabia
2016 · External reference
Charcoal remains from an Iron Age copper smelting slag heap at Feinan, Wadi Arabah (Jordan)
10.1007/bf00198162 · 1993 · External reference
FAOSTAT statistical database
2023 · External reference
Cross-species hybridization and the origin of North African date palms
10.1073/pnas.1817453116 · 2019 · External reference
Formation Processes and Paleoethnobotanical Interpretation in South Asia
2005 · External reference
Long and attenuated: comparative trends in the domestication of tree fruits
10.1007/s00334-017-0659-2 · 2018 · External reference
Between domestication and civilization: the role of agriculture and arboriculture in the emergence of the first urban societies
10.1007/s00334-019-00727-4 · 2019 · External reference
Atlit-Yam: A Prehistoric Site on the Sea Floor off the Israeli Coast
10.2307/529950 · 1993 · External reference
sjmgarnier/viridis: CRAN release v0.6.3
10.5281/zenodo.4679423 · 2023 · External reference
Botanical samples
1981 · External reference
Systematics and Evolution of the Genus Phoenix: Towards Understanding Date Palm Origins
10.1007/978-3-030-73746-7_2 · 2021 · External reference
A brief history of the origin of domesticated date palms
10.1007/978-3-030-73746-7_3 · 2021 · External reference
The genomes of ancient date palms germinated from 2,000 y old seeds
10.1073/pnas.2025337118 · 2021 · External reference
The discovery of wild date palms in Oman reveals a complex domestication history involving centers in the Middle East and Africa
10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.045 · 2017 · External reference
The domestication syndrome in Phoenix dactylifera seeds: Toward the identification of wild date palm populations
10.1371/journal.pone.0152394 · 2016 · External reference
On the necessity of combining ethnobotany and genetics to assess agrobiodiversity and its evolution in crops: A case study on date palms (Phoenix dactylifera L.) in Siwa Oasis, Egypt
10.1111/eva.12930 · 2020 · External reference
Excavations at Ma'layba and Sabir, Republic of Yemen: Radiocarbon Datings in the Period 1900 to 800 cal BC
10.1017/s0033822200038595 · 2001 · External reference
Environmental research at al-Khiḍr, Failakah Island, Kuwait
2009 · External reference
Whole genome re-sequencing of date palms yields insights into diversification of a fruit tree crop
10.1038/ncomms9824 · 2015 · External reference
Appendix B. Jericho Plant remains
1983 · External reference
Plant remains and early farming in Jericho
1969 · External reference
Leveraging the potential of charred archaeological seeds for reconstructing the history of date palm
10.1016/j.jas.2024.106052 · 2024 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1995 · External reference
Origins and evolution of oasis agriculture in the Sahara: Evidence from morphometric analyses of archaeological date palm seeds
10.1177/09596836231211879 · 2024 · External reference
ArchbotLit—the archaeobotanical literature database: an update of the search engine for literature on archaeological remains of cultivated plants since 1981
10.1007/s00334-020-00794-y · 2021 · External reference
Archaeobotanical and archaeoentomological evidence from a well at Atlit-Yam indicates colder, more humid climate on the Israeli coast during the PPNC period
10.1016/j.jas.2004.02.010 · 2004 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1967 · External reference
The core area of fruit-tree cultivation: Central Jordan Valley (Levant), ca. 7,000 BP
10.1080/01916122.2024.2347905 · 2024 · External reference
The Emergence of Fruit Tree Horticulture in Chalcolithic Southern Levant
10.1007/978-3-031-27330-8_3 · 2023 · External reference
Palaeobotanical and palynological studies in South Arabia
10.1016/0034-6667(92)90061-k · 1992 · External reference
The vegetational landscape of the Negev during antiquity as evident from archaeological wood remains
10.1080/07929978.1996.10676645 · 1996 · External reference
Wild and Cultivated Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera) from Qumran Cave 24
10.1179/tav.2001.2001.2.305 · 2001 · External reference
Charred Wood Remains from Ohalo II (19,000 B.P.), Sea of Galilee,
10.61247/s504173 · 1997 · External reference
Up the Wadi: Development of an Iron Age Industrial Landscape in Faynan, Jordan
10.1080/00934690.2020.1747792 · 2020 · External reference
Holocene climate variability in the Levant from the Dead Sea pollen record
10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.06.012 · 2012 · External reference
Sowing the Seeds of Future Research: Data Sharing, Citation and Reuse in Archaeobotany
10.5334/oq.62 · 2019 · External reference
“It’s all just barley and figs!” Identifying patterns of plant waste accumulation in House 169, Elephantine Island, Egypt (1750–1650 bc) using machine learning
10.1007/s00334-024-01010-x · 2024 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2014 · External reference
Bio-archaeological studies at Konar Sandal, Halil Rud basin, southeastern Iran
10.1179/1749631413y.0000000006 · 2013 · External reference
L’iconographie et le symbolisme du palmier dattier dans l’Antiquité (Proche-Orient, Égypte, Méditerranée orientale)
10.4000/ethnoecologie.1275 · 2013 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1982 · External reference
Sign and image: Representations of plants on the Warka Vase of early Mesopotamia
2016 · External reference
Building H at Mleiha: new evidence of the late pre-Islamic period D phase (PIR.D) in the Oman peninsula (second to mid-third century AD)
2012 · External reference
Plant remains of Qaryat al-Fāw, Pre-Islamic: comestible plants and fruits
2019 · External reference
Plant remains of archaeological sites in lowland Iraq: Tell el’Oueili.
1991 · External reference
Organisation and Management of Seed Reference Collections
10.1179/env.2003.8.1.77 · 2003 · External reference
Palaeoenvironmental evidence from H3, Kuwait
2010 · External reference
Holocene vegetation dynamics in the northeastern Rub' al-Khali desert, Arabian Peninsula: a phytolith, pollen and carbon isotope study
10.1002/jqs.880 · 2004 · External reference
Date palm and date palm inflorescences in the Late Uruk priod (C. 3300 B.C.): Botany and archaeic script
10.1017/irq.2019.15 · 2019 · External reference
Khirbet Qumran in Light of New Archaeological Explorations in the Qumran Caves
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1994.tb30464.x · 1994 · External reference
L'iconographie des vases et objets en chlorite de Jiroft (Iran)
10.3406/paleo.2005.5129 · 2005 · External reference
Plant remains from the site of Mleiha
1999 · External reference
Preliminary Excavations at Al-Kashawba’ 2006
2007 · External reference
Species Delimitation in the Genus Phoenix (Arecaceae) Based on SSR Markers, with Emphasis on the Identity of the Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera)
2010 · External reference
Molecular clocks and archeogenomics of a late period Egyptian date palm leaf reveal introgression from wild relatives and add timestamps on the domestication
10.1093/molbev/msab188 · 2021 · External reference
R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing
2022 · External reference
The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP)
10.1017/rdc.2020.41 · 2020 · External reference
Carpological analysis of Phoenix (Arecaceae): contributions to the taxonomy and evolutionary history of the genus: Carpological Analysis of Phoenix
10.1111/boj.12164 · 2014 · External reference
leaflegend: Create Custom Legends for Leaflet
2024 · External reference
New clues to the development of the oasis of Dadan. Results from a test excavation at Tall al-Sālimīyyah (al-ʿUlā, Saudi Arabia)
2022 · External reference
Excavation at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) village of ‘Ain Ghazal (Jordan), 1983
1985 · External reference
Agrobiodiversity and crop diffusion in Morocco from Antiquity to the early Modern period (8th century BCE–17th century CE): an archaeobotanical review
10.1007/s00334-024-01013-8 · 2024 · External reference
Origins and insights into the historic Judean date palm based on genetic analysis of germinated ancient seeds and morphometric studies
10.1126/sciadv.aax0384 · 2020 · External reference
Harappan plant economy at ancient Balu, Haryana
2002 · External reference
Palaeoethnobotanical investigations at early Harappan Kunal
2003 · External reference
Le palmier dattier (Phoenix dactylifera L.) dans l’Arabie méridionale préislamique
10.4000/ethnoecologie.1356 · 2013 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2016 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2015 · External reference
10.1201/9780429447273
10.1201/9780429447273 · 2020 · External reference
bslib: Custom 'Bootstrap' 'Sass' Themes for 'shiny' and 'rmarkdown'
10.32614/cran.package.bslib · 2021 · External reference
Modelling the Geographical Origin of Rice Cultivation in Asia Using the Rice Archaeological Database
10.1371/journal.pone.0137024 · 2015 · External reference
Recommendation for the Publication of DateBack: An Open Archaeobotanical Repository
10.24072/pci.archaeo.100603 · 2025 · External reference
Archaeological Evidence of Casual Snacking and Resource Provisioning at Khirbat al-Jariya (ca. Eleventh to Tenth Centuries BCE), an Iron-Age Copper Production Site
10.1007/978-3-031-27330-8_48 · 2023 · External reference
R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing
2022 · External reference
Beginnings and early history of date palm garden cultivation in the Middle East
10.1016/j.jaridenv.2011.11.022 · 2012 · External reference
Unresolved reference
1998 · External reference
Crop husbandry at Miri Qalat Makran, SW Pakistan (4000–2000 B.C.)
10.1007/bf02042836 · 1999 · External reference
L'exploitation des ligneux à Mleiha. Étude anthracologique
1999 · External reference
Environnement et économie végétale à Qal'at al-Bahreïn aux périodes Dilmoun et Tylos. Premiers éléments d'archéobotanique
10.3406/paleo.2001.4727 · 2001 · External reference
Origine et évolution de la phéniciculture au Moyen-Orient et en Égypte
2016 · External reference
Evolution and history of grapevine (Vitis vinifera) under domestication: new morphometric perspectives to understand seed domestication syndrome and reveal origins of ancient European cultivars
10.1093/aob/mcp298 · 2010 · External reference
Anatomy of the endemic palms of the Near and Middle East: archaeobotanical perspectives
10.4000/ethnoecologie.1366 · 2013 · External reference
Pottery from Tayma: Chronostratigraphy, Archaeometric Studies, Cultural Interaction
2021 · External reference
Botanical evidence for Garamantian agriculture in Fezzan, southern Libya
10.1016/0034-6667(92)90066-p · 1992 · External reference
Formation processes of desiccated and carbonized plant remains – the identification of routine practice
10.1016/j.jas.2006.09.007 · 2007 · External reference
Unresolved reference
2011 · External reference
CHAPTER 2. Archaeobotany: The Archaeology of Human-Plant Interactions
10.23943/9781400889730-007 · 2018 · External reference
The Sabir culture and coastal Yemen during the second millennium BC - the present state of discussion
1998 · External reference
Beginnings of Fruit Growing in the Old World - two generations later
10.1080/07929978.2015.1007718 · 2015 · External reference
The Ecological Interpretation of Ancient Charcoals from Jericho
10.1179/lev.1971.3.1.31 · 1971 · External reference
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10.21105/joss.01686 · 2019 · External reference
The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
10.1038/sdata.2016.18 · 2016 · External reference
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10.32614/cran.package.markdown · 2012 · External reference
Remains of Cultivated Plants from the Caves of Naḥal Mishmar: Preliminary Note
1961 · External reference
Genetic structure of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) in the Old World reveals a strong differentiation between eastern and western populations
10.1093/aob/mcv068 · 2015 · External reference
Beginnings of Fruit Growing in the Old World
10.1126/science.187.4174.319 · 1975 · External reference
Fruit trees and nuts
10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199549061.003.0001 · 2012 · External reference
YEMEN: Archaeological Activities in the Yemen Arab Republic
1986 · External reference
The doum palm (Hypahene thebaica) in South Arabia: Past and present
2009 · External reference