Gary Rollefson

Gary Rollefson, ACOR-CAORC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2023โ€“2024

“Completing a Lithic ‘Library’ for Future Late Neolithic Research in the Black Desert of Jordan”

ACOR-CAORC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2023โ€“2024

Wilfred Laurier University
Anthropology

Gary Rollefson is an anthropological archaeologist and professor emeritus in Whitman College Department of Anthropology of Whitman College (Walla Walla, Washington). His academic focus is prehistoric archaeology of the Lower and Middle Paleolithic periods and early- and late-Neolithic subsistence economy and ritual of the southern Levant. His most recent publications include โ€œCultural Practices, Epidemics and Demographic Inferencesโ€ (D. Ackerfeld and A. Gopher, eds.,ย Dealing with Death in the Neolithic, pp. 101โ€“112, [Berlin: Ex Oriente, 2022]); โ€œStanding Stones and Megalithic Architecture at Wisad Pools in Jordanโ€™s Black Desert,โ€(Studies in Honor of Uzi Avner; Negev, Dead Sea and Arava Studiesย 14 (2โ€“4): 12โ€“23), and โ€œHome on the Range: Late Neolithic Architecture and Subsistence in Jordanโ€™s Black Desertโ€ (I. Hunter and E. Ben Yosef, eds.,ย โ€œAnd in Length of Days Understandingโ€ (Job 12:12): Essays on Archaeology in the 21st Century in Honor of Thomas E. Levyย [London: Springer Verlag, in press]).

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