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NAHAL ZETAN
Location
Negev Desert, Ancient Levant
Period
Byzantine Period, 8th–9th centuries CE
Collaborators:
Dr. Yotam Tepper (University of Haifa), Prof. Dafna Langgut (Tel Aviv University)
Reconstruction of a Byzantine-period rainwater harvesting agriculture system in the Negev Desert, comprising productive terraces across sixteen square kilometers of arid hillside. Radiocarbon dating of relict olive trees, archaeobotanical pollen analysis, and the mapping of ancient stone dam networks document how Byzantine farmers sustained viticulture and olive cultivation through sophisticated desert water harvesting in a hyper-arid environment receiving barely 100mm of annual rainfall.
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