Testé et al. (2026). Ancient Date Palm Cultivation in the Southern Levant: A Morphometric Analysis of Archaeological Seeds from the Negev Desert. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.
The script reproduces the morphometric analyses performed on archaeological and modern date palm seeds, including data preparation, size and shape analyses, principal component analyses, morphotype classification, statistical testing, and figure generation. All analyses were conducted in R and are presented here in a fully reproducible format.
Authors
- Roy Galili
- Jean‐Frédéric Terral (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1921-2161)
- Tali Erickson‐Gini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2902-3831)
- Daniel Fuks (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4686-6128)
- Roee Shafir
- Guy Bar‐Oz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1009-5619)
- Muriel Gros‐Balthazard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2587-3946)
- Sarah Ivorra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0314-8054)
- Meirav Meiri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6567-9518)
- Ernesto Testé (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5399-4203)
- Yotam Tepper (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5564-1652)
- Nofar Shafir-Shamir
- Davida Degen-Eisenberg
Institutions
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (IL)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Tel Aviv University (IL)
- Australian National Botanic Gardens (AU)
- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (FR)
- Israel Antiquities Authority (IL)
- Délégation Languedoc Roussillon (FR)
- University of Haifa (IL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-06-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20834633
- Primary Topic
- Date Palm Research Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00