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Infested stored crops in the Iron Age I granary at Tel Hadar

Infested stored crops in the Iron Age I granary at Tel Hadar Large quantities of charred seeds of field crops were found in a granary at early Iron Age (end of the eleventh century BCE) Tel Hadar, located at the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee, Israel. They include mainly local naked wheat (Triticum parvicoccum), as well as bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia) and chickpea (Cicer arietinum) seeds. While the wheat was heavily infested by two major storage pest beetles granary weevil (Sitophilus granarius) and a newcomer, the lesser grain borer (Rhyzopertha dominica) the two pulses were much less infested. The presence of a large number of adults and larvae of R. dominica suggests that the granary was burned in mid or late summer. Seeds of the weed Lolium temulentum and several other weeds were also found. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Israel Journal of Plant Sciences Brill

Infested stored crops in the Iron Age I granary at Tel Hadar

Israel Journal of Plant Sciences , Volume 62 (1-2): 12 – May 18, 2015

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0792-9978
DOI
10.1080/07929978.2015.1014261
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Abstract

Large quantities of charred seeds of field crops were found in a granary at early Iron Age (end of the eleventh century BCE) Tel Hadar, located at the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee, Israel. They include mainly local naked wheat (Triticum parvicoccum), as well as bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia) and chickpea (Cicer arietinum) seeds. While the wheat was heavily infested by two major storage pest beetles granary weevil (Sitophilus granarius) and a newcomer, the lesser grain borer (Rhyzopertha dominica) the two pulses were much less infested. The presence of a large number of adults and larvae of R. dominica suggests that the granary was burned in mid or late summer. Seeds of the weed Lolium temulentum and several other weeds were also found.

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Israel Journal of Plant SciencesBrill

Published: May 18, 2015

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