Wheat-Growing Intensity of the Fertile Crescent
Modelled cereal-cultivation intensity across the Fertile Crescent, rendered as contour bands.
A modelled intensity surface for cereal cultivation across the Fertile Crescent, from lower Mesopotamia along the Euphrates and Tigris to the northern Khabur and the Levantine corridor. Survey points carry a yield index that is aggregated into iso-intensity bands, exposing the arc of intensive cultivation as a continuous surface. The dataset is illustrative — generated to exercise the engine's contour cartography — rather than an excavation record.
| Theme | Agricultural — land use & cultivation |
|---|---|
| Region | Near East & N. Africa |
| Temporal range | Representative survey |
| Geographic coverage | Regional |
| Records | 82 geolocated entities |
| Data source | Representative compilation (manual) |
| Centroid | 33.96° N · 40.66° E |
| Last revised | Jun 2026 |
A representative, hand-generated dataset (not a survey corpus): cereal-intensity points are seeded around the principal alluvial and rain-fed zones of the Fertile Crescent, with a yield index assigned for cartographic illustration of contour aggregation.
The published dataset is distributed as CSV with a derived GeoJSON edition; coordinates are decimal degrees on the WGS 84 datum. DOI 10.5281/ortelius.037.