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BOSTAN TREE

 
ERC Advanced (2024-2029)

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  • Meiri, M., Cohen, P. and Bar-Oz, G. Paleogenomics and its contribution to the study of the cultural history of flora in Israel. Ecology and Environment, in press.

  • Ben-Bassat, Y., Porat, R., Baumgarten, E. and Bar-Oz, G. 2026. Tracing the Historical Sycamore Belt in the Southern Coastal Plain: Landscape and Land Use during the Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods. Forest: Journal of Forests and Open Land Management, 30: 80-87 (in Hebrew).

  • Testé, E., Bar-Oz, G., Galili, R., Fuks, D., Shafir, R., Shafir-Shamir, N., Ivorra, S., Erickson-Gini, T., Tepper, Y., Degen-Eisenberg, D., Terral, J.-F., Meiri, M. and Gros-Balthazard, M. 2026. Ancient date palm cultivation in the Southern Levant: A morphometric analysis of archaeological seeds from the Negev Desert. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-026-01134-2.

  • Raphael, K., Avni, G., Wachtel, I., Porat, R., Mansour, T., Barazani, O. and Bar-Oz, G. 2026. Olive tree cultivation and the olive oil industry in Palestine: Trends of growth and decline from the late Mamluk period to the end of the British Mandate. Land, 15: 609. https://doi.org/10.3390/land15040609

  • Ben-Dor, E., Ben Dor, Y., Mayrose, I., Meiri, M., Bar-Oz, G., Ben-Ari, G., Dag, A. and Barazani, O. 2026. Morphometric properties of olive (Olea europaea) pits: A dataset for cultivar identification and analysis. Scientific Data, 13: 1066.

  • Ben-Bassat, Y., Schmidt, J. and Bar-Oz, G. 2026. Revealing the land of the Dabouki in the Coastal Plain of southern Israel. Kathedra, 189: 9-30 (in Hebrew).

  • Bar-Oz, G. 2025. Seeds from the past, fruits of the Future. Igeret: Proceedings of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 47: 24-35.

  • Porat, R., Mansour, T., Ben-dor, E., Barazani, O., Mayrose, I., Noy Meir, A., Meiri, M., Gairstein, G., Langgut, D., Kamissy, R., Raphael, K., Baumgarten, E., Shafir, R., Ulman, M., Boaretto, E., Avni, G. and Bar-Oz, G. 2025. Toolbox to study the history of ancient olive trees. Forest: Journal of Forests and Open Land Management, 29: 42-50 (in Hebrew).

  • Garty. B., Gambash, G., Levy, S. T. and Bar-Oz, G. 2025. Wine economy in Byzantine Shivta (Negev, Israel): Exploring the role of runoff agriculture and droughts through Agent-Based Modeling. PLoS One, 20: e0325204 .

  • Galili, R., Meroz, A., Cohen, Y. and Bar-Oz, G. 2025. Current state of wild and feral date palm populations in the Negev and Arava. Forest: Journal of Forests and Open Land Management, 28: 8-19 (in Hebrew).

  • Zohar, M., Ben-Bassat, Y. and Bar-Oz, G. 2025. Historical roots of heritage horticulture in the southern coastal plain of Israel. Land, 14: 285.

  • ​Ashkenazi, E., Wachtel, I., Bar-Oz, G., Marom, R. and Kolska Horwitz, L. 2025. An ecological comparison of two abandoned heritage orchards in northern Israel. Heritage, 8: 76.

  • Bar-Oz, G. and Schmidt, J. Why study the archaeo-histories of dryland landraces now? Trends in Plant Sciences, 30: 724-73.

  • Miller, S., Bar-Oz, G., Ben-Eliyahu, E. and Gambash, G. 2025. Both inside and outside the land: Mediterranean viticulture in Late-Antique Palestine. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, in press.

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  • Schmidt, J. and Bar-Oz, G. 2024. Propagating terroir revival in the Negev: How the wine industry can amplify its resilience to climate adversity through a deeper understanding of historic dryland viticulture. Horticulturae, 10: 917.

  • Meiri, M. and Bar-Oz, G. 2024. Unraveling the diversity and cultural heritage of fruit crops through paleogenomics. Trends in Genetics, 40: 398-409.

  • Kizhner, I., Gambash, G. Bar-Oz, G. and Avni, G. 2024. Distribution patterns of Gaza wine vs. Cilician wine in the eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity. Levant, 56: 408-424.

  • Schmidt, J., Ben Bassat, Y. and Bar-Oz, G. 2024. In the land of the Dabouki: Interdisciplinary notes on a native grape cultivar in Israel. Journal of Arid Environments, 224: 105220.

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