
“Completing a Lithic ‘Library’ for Future Late Neolithic Research in the Black Desert of Jordan”
ACOR-CAORC Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2023โ2024
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 โCultural Practices, Epidemics and Demographic Inferencesโ (D. Ackerfeld and A. Gopher, eds.,ย Dealing with Death in the Neolithic, pp. 101โ112, [Berlin: Ex Oriente, 2022]); โStanding Stones and Megalithic Architecture at Wisad Pools in Jordanโs Black Desert,โ(Studies in Honor of Uzi Avner; Negev, Dead Sea and Arava Studiesย 14 (2โ4): 12โ23), and โHome on the Range: Late Neolithic Architecture and Subsistence in Jordanโs Black Desertโ (I. Hunter and E. Ben Yosef, eds.,ย โAnd 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]).