MALI: A study conducted by a team of researchers from the Hebrew University and the Bar-Ilan University discovered that Philistines community was the first to take plants like sycamore, cumin and opium poppy to Israel. They brought the plant species to the country during the Iron Age, as per the study researchers.
The study conducted by a group of researchers from Bar-Ilan University and the Hebrew University has revealed about the bio-archaeological remains of the Philistine culture during the period occurred after the Bronze Age.
To carry out the study, the researchers collected data after analyzing plant remains from the Bronze and Iron Ages sites located in the southern Levant. The study’s results concluded that Philistines came to Israel with some of their famous plants. According to the researchers, the plant species that Philistines took with them were not seen in the country previously.
Sue Frumin, a PhD student at the Bar-Ilan University, said, “The edible parts of these species – opium poppy, sycamore, and cumin – were not identified in the archaeobotanical record of Israel prior to the Iron Age, when the Philistine culture first appeared in the region”.
The study researchers discovered that the community of the Philistines was the first to exploit more than 70 synanthropic plant species that were present in Israel. During the early Iron Age, the Philistines community settled on the southern coastal plain of Israel. They disappeared at the end of the Iron Age, according to historians.
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