Walker/Life on the Farm, 7.1. Land Use and Foodways: Evidence from Phytoliths

To reconstruct the medieval history of land-use in Southern Greater Syria, it is necessary to study local-scale agricultural and pastoral practices, and state-related industrialization and intensification of agriculture. The region of Jordan and Israel is a diverse landscape in ecological and climatic terms and has a climate that ranges from Mediterranean to arid. The Ayyubid/Mamluk periods are marked with increased demographic and agricultural trends, investment in large-scale agricultural production, as well as changes in settlement patterns.