Abstract
Khirbat el-Hashash is situated on the westernborder of the Jezreel Valley.The findsat the site include mainly installations, quarriesand caves characteristic of the ancient rurallandscape, attesting to intensive and specializedvine cultivation during the Roman and EarlyByzantine periods. This report documents thefinds at 40 different units, all of which yielded surface-find potsherdsfrom domestic waste scattered by farmers toimprove the soil. The potsherds date from theEarly to the Late Roman periods.The region around the site provided the local inhabitants with most of their economic needs.Of special interest are three distinct features:‘Mishmar Ha-ʻEmeq’ and ‘Midrah ‘Oz’installations, and ‘stone bridges’. The site wasprobably part of the agricultural hinterlandof two central towns, Geva‘ and Legio/Maximianopolis, and provided them with farmproduce.
Keywords
Jezreel Valley, agriculture, hinterland, winepress
Recommended Citation
Getzov, Nimrod; Tepper, Yotam; and Tepper, Yigal
(2017)
"Evidence of a Flourishing Ancient Viticulture in Light of theExcavations near Khirbat el-Hashash (Midrakh ‘Oz), in theRural Area between Gevaʻ and Legio (Hebrew, pp. 75*–132*; English summary, pp. 119–122),"
'Atiqot: Vol. 89, Article 14.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70967/2948-040X.1819
Available at:
https://publications.iaa.org.il/atiqot/vol89/iss1/14
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