{"id":28373,"date":"2018-03-30T03:40:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T10:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=28373"},"modified":"2018-03-29T22:08:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T05:08:23","slug":"the-import-of-pigeons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2018\/03\/30\/the-import-of-pigeons\/","title":{"rendered":"The import of pigeons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Pigeon bones from 1,500 years ago.<em> (photo from University of Haifa via Ashernet)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Negev Desert has not always been a dusty, almost treeless place \u2013 1,500 years ago, many parts of the Negev were green and produced basic foods. And a new study \u2013 led by Dr. Nimrod Marom of the University of Haifa and Tel Hai College, in cooperation with Prof. Guy Bar-Oz and Dr. Yotam Tepper of the Institute of Archeology at the University of Haifa and Dr. Baruch Rosen of the Volcani Centre \u2013 reveals the first archeological evidence of the role played by pigeons in Byzantine agriculture: improving and fertilizing soil in vineyards and orchards. Among other goals, the researchers are interested in understanding how the Byzantines managed to maintain a broad-based agricultural system in the desert, and what led to the sudden abandonment and eventual collapse of these flourishing communities.<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pigeon bones from 1,500 years ago. (photo from University of Haifa via Ashernet) Israel\u2019s Negev Desert has not always been a dusty, almost treeless place \u2013 1,500 years ago, many parts of the Negev were green and produced basic foods. And a new study \u2013 led by Dr. Nimrod Marom of the University of Haifa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4329],"tags":[224,4242,4330,8031,6535],"class_list":["post-28373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","tag-archeology","tag-history","tag-israel","tag-negev","tag-pigeons"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}