www.archaeobotanik.uni-tuebingen.de 
archaeobotanical database of Eastern Mediterranean and Near Eastern sites
The research project
Aim and approach of the Project
The database is product and part of a larger research project entitled: Development of Prehistoric Wild Plant Floras in the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. It helps to answer questions on the spatial distribution of different taxa in specific periods, as a mean to observe progression and retreat of floristic elements ( 
Riehl, in press ).
Multivariate statistics applied on the dataset will enable users to elaborate specific characteristics in the distribution of wild plant taxa during different periods and will help to define probable triggers for changes in composition of the wild plant floras.
Geographical and chronological frame
The database covers the geographic area of Asia Minor and neighbouring countries (c. 41°N to 29°N and 20°E to 51°E), such as Greece, Turkey, Western Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Northern Egypt, as an area of authoritative cultural evolution and influential development during the whole archaeological and historical sequence from the Neolithic onwards.
This database covers the periods from the Chalcolithic onwards. The Neolithic data will be available through the database by Dr. Sue Colledge, UCL.
Map of the investigated area
Duration of the project and contributing researchers
The project was started in 2001 with support by Ministry of Arts and Science (Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Baden-Württemberg). Data collection was finished in the end of 2004 and included those data that were published before summer 2004.
I wish to thank those colleagues, who supported the development of the database by sending off-prints and data. I am also grateful to Nivien Ibrahim for entering much of the data.
Annotation
As the "central project" is still in progress, only part of the database ( database login & registration ) is available to the public. After completion of the project the whole data will be available in the internet and/or distributed on CD Rom to interested colleagues.
Since data input should be continuous to keep the database uptodate, colleagues are encouraged to send their new data to be included into the database. People who wish to send data are kindly asked to download an excel file ( sample.xls, 20 KByte, MS Excel 2000 ) and copy their data in the relevant columns and rows.