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A Kinder, Greener Black Desert—An ACOR Video Lecture by Leading Prehistorian Gary Rollefson
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“The Late Neolithic Colonization of the Eastern Badia” by Dr. Gary Rollefson
The Late Neolithic Colonization of the Eastern Badia Dr. Gary Rollefson Professor of Anthropology, Whitman College ACOR-CAORC Senior Fellow Tuesday 25 February 2014 at 6:00pm Reception to Follow About the Lecture Unprecedented population growth, environmental degradation, and a reduction of rainfall by the end of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) period (c. 8,700-7,000 BC) resulted…
“A Kinder, Greener Black Desert” by Dr. Gary Rollefson
A Kinder, Greener Black Desert: Results of Archaeological Research of Neolithic Sites Dr. Gary Rollefson Professor of Anthropology, Whitman College ACOR-CAORC Senior Fellow Tuesday 25 February 2014, 6:00 pm Reception to Follow About the Lecture: Passing through the Black Desert in northeastern Jordan, one is struck by the lifeless and forbidding character of the landscape….