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PhD Anthropology University of Arizona
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Bachelors Anthropology University of Arizona

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According to Wikipedia, Gary O. Rollefson is a Near Eastern prehistoric archaeologist. Biography Gary O. Rollefson was born in Forest City, Iowa. He was the oldest of three boys. In 1957, the Rollefson family moved to Long Beach, California where he completed high school. He attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated in 1965 receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology.

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Gary O. Rollefson's Published Works

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Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East (2016) (637)
Optimal Ancient DNA Yields from the Inner Ear Part of the Human Petrous Bone (2015) (307)
Climate Forcing Due to the 8200 Cal yr BP Event Observed at Early Neolithic Sites in the Eastern Mediterranean (2006) (234)
The Impact of Rapid Climate Change on Prehistoric Societies during the Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean (2009) (173)
Neolithic Cultures at Ain Ghazal, Jordan (1992) (126)
Ancient goat genomes reveal mosaic domestication in the Fertile Crescent (2018) (107)
Ritual and Social Structure at Neolithic ’Ain Ghazal (2002) (80)
Ritual and Ceremony at Neolithic Ain Ghazal (Jordan) (1983) (64)
Neolithic 'Ain Ghazal (Jordan) : Ritual and Ceremony, II (1986) (62)
'Ain Ghazal: A Major Neolithic Settlement in Central Jordan (1988) (58)
Early neolithic exploitation patterns in the Levant: Cultural impact on the environment (1992) (58)
The prehistory of Jordan, II : perspectives from 1997 (1999) (51)
From Flint Mine to Fan Scraper: The Late Prehistoric Jafr Industrial Complex (2002) (49)
Neolithic in Turkey : the cradle of civilization : new discoveries (2002) (48)
PPNC ADAPTATIONS IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 6th MILLENNIUM B.C. (1993) (47)
The Late Neolithic colonization of the Eastern Badia of Jordan (2014) (44)
The uses of plaster at Neolithic'Ain Ghazal. Jordan (1990) (42)
Synthèse : The Late Aceramic Neolithic of the Levant : A Synthesis (1989) (40)
Wadi Shuʿeib, A Large Neolithic Community in Central Jordan: Final Report of Test Investigations (2001) (39)
The 1983 Season At ʻAin Ghazal: Preliminary Report (1984) (29)
The decline of the early Neolithic population center of 'Ain Ghazal and corresponding earth-surface processes, Jordan Rift Valley (2012) (27)
Charming Lives: Human and Animal Figurines in the Late Epipaleolithic and Early Neolithic Periods in the Greater Levant and~Eastern Anatolia (2008) (27)
Field Report: A Plastered Human Skull from Neolithic 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan (1990) (26)
Three late eighth millennium plastered faces from 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan (1998) (25)
The Aceramic Neolithic of the Southern Levant : The View from 'Ain Ghazal (1989) (24)
The “land of conjecture:” New late prehistoric discoveries at Maitland’s Mesa and Wisad Pools, Jordan (2015) (24)
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating and spatial analysis of geometric lines in the Northern Arabian Desert (2015) (24)
Two Seasons of Excavations at ʿAin el-Assad near Azraq, Eastern Jordan, 1980-1981 (1983) (23)
A Brief note on the fauna from Neolithic 'Ain Ghazal (1993) (23)
'Ain Ghazal (Jordan) : ritual and ceremony III (1998) (23)
The Early Neolithic Village of 'Ain Gh̊azāl, Jordan: Preliminary Report on the 1983 Season (1985) (21)
Late Acheulian Variability in the Southern Levant: A Contrast of the Western and Eastern Margins of the Levantine Corridor (2006) (21)
Epipalaeolithic Site of Shubayqa 1 Preliminary Report on the First Season (2013) (20)
The Brown University Petra Archaeological Project: Landscape Archaeology in the Northern Hinterland of Petra, Jordan (2017) (18)
THE LATE ACHEULEAN SITE AT FJAJE, WADI EL-BUSTAN, SOUTHERN JORDAN (1981) (17)
A decorated skull from MPPNB 'Ain Ghazal (1998) (16)
A quantitative and qualitative typological analysis of bifaces from the Tabun excavations, 1967-1972 (1978) (16)
ʿAin Ghazal: An Early Neolithic Community in Highland Jordan, near Amman (1984) (16)
The Origins of the Yarmoukian at 'Ain Ghazal. (1993) (14)
Tell Sabi Abyad : the late neolithic settlement : report on the excavations of the University of Amsterdam (1988) and the National Museum of Antiquities Leiden (1991-1993) in Syria (1998) (14)
Neolithic Chipped Stone Technology at 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan : The Status of the PPNC Phase (1990) (14)
The Wadi Sirhan Project: Report on the 2002 Archaeological Reconnaissance of Wadi Hudruj and Jabal Tharwa, Jordan (2005) (13)
Survey of Byzantine and Islamic sites in Jordan. Second Preliminary Season Report, 1981 (1983) (13)
First chronometric results for ‘works of the old men’: late prehistoric ‘wheels’ near Wisad Pools, Black Desert, Jordan (2016) (12)
A Neolithic Game Board from ʿAin Ghazal, Jordan (1992) (12)
The genetic structure of the world’s first farmers (2016) (12)
Maitland’s ‘Mesa’ reassessed: a late prehistoric cemetery in the eastern Badia, Jordan (2011) (12)
A Middle Acheulian surface site from Wadi Uweinid, Eastern Jordan (1984) (10)
The Greening of the Badlands: Pastoral Nomads and the “Conclusion” of Neolithization in the Southern Levant (2011) (10)
Neolithic 'Ain Ghazal (Jordan): Interim Report on the First Two Seasons, 1982–1983 (1984) (9)
Burial Practices at the Neolithic Village of 'Ain Ghazal (Jordan) (1989) (8)
Khirbet Hammām: A PPNB Village in the Wādī el-Ḥasā, Southern Jordan (1985) (8)
The Late Neolithic Presence in the Black Desert (2017) (7)
The Critical Role of Technological Analysis for Prehistoric Anthropological Inference (1990) (5)
Investigations of a Late Neolithic Structure at Mesa 7 , Wadi al-Qattafi , Black Desert , 2015 (2017) (5)
Late Prehistoric Aggregation Patterns in Jordan’s Eastern Badia (2013) (5)
Inscribed landscapes in the Black Desert: Petroglyphs and kites at Wisad Pools, Jordan (2020) (4)
Tumultuous Times in the Eighth and Seventh Millennia BC in the Southern Levant (2019) (4)
Natufian Occupation in the Wadi El Hasa, Southern Jordan (1984) (4)
Late Acheulian Artifacts from ʿAin el-Assad ("Lion's Spring"), near Azraq, Eastern Jordan (1980) (3)
Reply to comments by Hans Nissen and Jean Perrot (1993) (2)
Prehistoric Cultural Ecology and Evolution: Insights from Southern Jordan. Donald O. Henry. Plenum Press, New York, 1995. xxv + 466 pp., figures, tables, references, appendixes, index. $59.50 (cloth). (1996) (2)
The Lower Palaeolithic of Jordan (2017) (2)
The palaeoenvironmental potential of the eastern Jordanian desert basins (Qe'an) (2021) (2)
Excavations at PPNB 'Ain Ghazal (1982) (2)
Long-term Landscape, Environment and Climate Change Studies, from the Past through to Predictive Models for Future Developments (2015) (2)
ʿAin Ghazal Excavations 1996 (1996) (1)
The Lower and Middle Paleolithic of the Southern Levant (2018) (1)
Off with their heads! : an analysis of the Levantine plastered skulls during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (2017) (1)
Subsequent Excavations at the Neolithic Rockshelter Settlement of Jabal Juhayra ( al-Jafr Basin , Jordan ) (2018) (1)
The PPNC: (2019) (1)
Biface Production at Tabun: Manufacture, Maintenance, and Morphological Variability (2016) (1)
Paleolithic Hunters in the Azraq Oasis (1996) (1)
The Road More Traveled: ‘Ain Ghazal and the Peopling of the Black Desert (2019) (0)
Abstracts — Second Symposium on Upper Paleolithic (1988) (0)
Excavations at Beidha Vol. 1: The Natuflan Encampment at Beidha. Late Pleistocene Adaptation in the Southern Levant (1993) (0)
Early and Mid-Holocene Environments and Settlement in Eastern Jordan (2017) (0)
Lithic Artifacts from the Umm Ad-Danānīr Region of the Baqʿah Valley (1985) (0)
For the past, for the future : NAGPRA, repatriation, and the Native American-archaeologist relationship (2012) (0)
A Decorated Bone ‘ Spatula ’ from Göbekli Tepe . On the Pitfalls of Iconographic Interpretations of Early Neolithic Art (2017) (0)
One Hundred Years of Archaeological Research in Jordan (2022) (0)
Boon and Bane : the paradox of pre-pottery Neolithic caprine domestication in the southern Levant (2016) (0)
Masthead NEO-LITHICS 2 / 13 The Newsletter of Southwest Asian Neolithic Research Special Topic on The Symbolic Construction of Community (2014) (0)
Book Review: The long summer. How climate changed civilization (2005) (0)
•f Obituary (2011) (0)

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