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Jul 1, 2016 · A luscious-looking olive, ripe off the sun-warmed tree, is horrible. The substance that renders it essentially inedible is oleuropein, a phenolic compound bitter enough to shrivel your teeth. The...
Aug 29, 2024 · According to folklore, in 1817 exiled French military aristocrats loyal to the recently-deposed Emperor Napoleon founded the Vine and Olive Colony at the confluence of the Tombigbee and Black Warrior Rivers.
Jan 30, 2017 · New paleobotanical, archeological, historical and molecular data have recently accumulated for olive, making it timely to carry out a critical re-evaluation of the biogeography of wild olives and the history of their cultivation.
- Guillaume Besnard, Jean-Frédéric Terral, Amandine Cornille
- 10.1093/aob/mcx145
- 2018
- Ann Bot. 2018 Mar; 121(3): 385-403.
- Olive History
- Mediterranean Olives
- Archaeological Evidence
- Important Archaeological Sites Sites
- Sources and Further Information
The olive tree (Olea europaea var. europaea) is thought to have been domesticated from the wild oleaster (Olea europaea var. sylvestris), at a minimum of nine different times. The earliest probably dates to the Neolithic migration into the Mediterranean basin, ~6000 years ago. Propagating olive trees is a vegetative process; that is to say, success...
The first domesticated olives are likely from the Near East (Israel, Palestine, Jordan), or at least the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea, although some debate persists about its origins and spread. Archaeological evidence suggests that the domestication of olive trees spread into the western Mediterranean and North Africa by the Early Bronze A...
Olive wood samples have been recovered from the Upper Paleolithic site of Boker in Israel. The earliest evidence of olive use discovered to date is at Ohalo II, where ca 19,000 years ago, olive pits and wood fragments were found. Wild olives (oleasters) were used for oils throughout the Mediterranean basin during the Neolithic period (ca 10,000-7,0...
Archaeological sites important to understanding the domestication history of the olive include Ohalo II, Kfar Samir, (pits dated to 5530-4750 BC); Nahal Megadim (pits 5230-4850 cal BC) and Qumran (pits 540-670 cal AD), all in Israel; ChalcolithicTeleilat Ghassul (4000-3300 BC), Jordan; Cueva del Toro (Spain).
Plant Domestication and the Dictionary of Archaeology. Breton C, Pinatel C, Médail F, Bonhomme F, and Bervillé A. 2008. Comparison between classical and Bayesian methods to investigate the history of olive cultivars using SSR-polymorphisms. Plant Science175(4):524-532. Breton C, Terral J-F, Pinatel C, Médail F, Bonhomme F, and Bervillé A. 2009. The...
Did you know, Olives are inedible straight from the tree? In fact they can make you quite unwell. So how and why did people first start eating them more than 6000 years ago? Only after a prolonged brine fermentation are the bitter compounds leached to the point that they become not only edible but also delicious. O
Dec 3, 2016 · In the western United States, hundreds of thousands of riparian acres are occupied by the invasive shrubs/trees tamarisk and Russian olive, as well as numerous exotic herbaceous plants. Our work focuses on understanding the factors driving the distribution...
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The Black olives you are talking about were invented in California in the 1890s. I'm guessing they spread into Tex-Mex/Border cuisine through central and southern California. They were probably pretty cheap and widely available, as the California climate is very hospitable to olive production.
