Olive oil in antiquity : Israel and neighbouring countries from the neolithic to the early Arab period / edited by David Eitam, Michael Heltzer.

Papers from the Olive Oil in Antiquity Conference held in Haifa?, Israel, in 1995?.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xiii]-xxxiv)

Introduction -- Production and Botany -- The Domestication of the Olive Tree / Mordechai E. Kislev -- Olives in Ancient Israel in View of Dendroarchaeological Investigations / Nili Liphschitz -- Botanical Methods in the Historical Geography of Palestine : North American Wood in an Arab Village Oil Press / Nili Liphschitz, Gideon Biger and Ruth Kark -- Aspects of Olive Oil Production in Premodern Israel / Baruch Rosen -- The Traditional Cultivation of the Olive Tree / Avraham Singer -- Area/Period Studies -- Observations on Olive Oil in Ancient Egypt / Shmuel Ahituv -- On the Storage of Olive Oil in Antiquity / Michal Artzy -- Minoan-Mycenaean Olive Oil Production and Trade- A review of Current Research / Shlomo Bunimovitz -- Oil and Olives in the Land of Israel in the Early Muslim Period (634-1099) / Jehoshua Frankel -- An Introduction to Olive Oil production in Cyprus / Sophocles Hadjisavvas -- Olive Growing and Olive Oil in Ugarit / Michael Heltzer -- The Olive Tree and its Products in Ancient Mesopotamia / Meir Malul -- The Production and Commerce of Baetican Olive Oil during the Roman Empire / José Remesal-Rodriguez -- The Essence and Siting of Oil Producing Facilities in Mishnaic and Talmudic Perod Based on Authentic Sources / Israel Rosenson -- The Economic Implication of Olive Oil Production in the Mishnah and Talmud Periods / Zeev Safrai -- The Use of Oil in the Cult of Ancient Israel / Moshe Weinfeld -- Oleoculture and Olive Oil Presses in Phoenician North Africa / Samuel R. Wolff -- Archaeological and Technological Studies -- The Oil Press and the Subterrannean Storage Complexes at "Ahuzat Hazzan" / Gideon Avni and Shlomo Gudovitz -- The "Samaritan" Olive Oil Press / Eitan Ayalon -- The Oil Press at Sumaka / Shimon Dar -- The Olive Oil Industry at Tel Miqne - Ekron during the Late Iron Age / David Eitam -- Oil Presses in Western Galilee and Judea - a Comparison / Rafael Frankel -- Tel Miqne-Ekron in the 7th B.C. City Plan Development and the Oil Industry / Seymour Gitin -- 7th Century B.C. Oil Presses at Tel Batash, Biblical Timnah / Georg Kelm and Amichai Mazar -- An Olive Bulk : The Olive Fruit as an Ancient Unit of Capacity / Mordechai E. Kislev -- Maresha : Underground Olive Oil Production in the Hellenistic Period / Nahum Sagiv and Amos Kloner -- The Oil Press of Sumaka : The Ceramic Find / Azriel Siegelman -- Oil Production at Gamla / David Wagner -- The Cultivation and the Economy of Olives during the Iron Age I in the Hill Country of Manasseh / Adam Zertal.