Jalal Kassout

Rethinking Oasis Research in North Africa and Sahel: A Systematic Review of Scientific Gaps, Methodological Biases, and Conservation Priorities for Agrobiodiversity

North African oases constitute critical socio-ecosystems characterised by complex agro-biodiversity and millennia of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). Nevertheless, such fragile landscapes are confronted with mounting pressures from climate change and an-thropogenic activit...

Revealing archaeological olive diversity: insights from stone geometric morphometrics, experimental charring, and varietal identification (Port-la-Nautique, France, Roman period)

The cultivated olive tree, domesticated in the Levant by the mid-5th millennium BCE, spread westward across the Mediterranean to reach southern France by 600 BCE. Although geometric morphometrics applied to archaeological olive stones has provided insights into this diffusion, mo...