She realizes he has been grieving for a thousand-year-old olive tree that the family ... a quixotic mission to locate the tree and return it to the family orchard, so that her grandfather may ...

The work is published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews. The origins of olive tree cultivation Olive trees were first domesticated in the Near East around 6,500–7,000 years ago, but ...

The olive tree is one of the most iconic symbols of the Mediterranean basin, deeply intertwined with the region's history, economy, and culture. But how did this tree, originally a wild species ...