Greasing the Wheels of Urbanism: Innovating Early Bronze Age Olive Oil Production in the Northern Jordan Valley
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Abstract
Initial phases of urbanization are messy, with innovations leading to successes and failures. How people changed their resource production strategies to meet developing needs during urbanizing periods is a foundational aspect of understanding the emergence of early cities. This article focuses on Site WZ130, a late 4th millennium b.c. olive-processing site in northern Jordan that was active during the Early Bronze Age (EBA, 3800–2000 b.c.), when the first urban societies emerged in the southern Levant. Site WZ130 provides a tangible example of the infrastructural innovations that were necessary to support early urbanism. The site’s three phases demonstrate successive innovation in olive-pressing technology, from layering pulp in a pit, a technique used since the Neolithic, to beam pressing, which survived into the 20th century a.d. These changes in olive-processing methods demonstrate that people responded to socio-economic and political changes brought on by early urbanization through innovation and experimentation in olive oil production.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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