Event: Friday, September 5, Dedman Life Sciences Building RM 131, 5-6pm
Fekri Hassan, Professor Emeritus, Petrie Professor of Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology at the University College London from 1994 – 2008, will lecture on cultural dynamics and the origins of the Egyptian civilization. Dr. Hassan will discuss how cultivation of domesticated cereals (grains) and pulses (plants), together with tending domestic livestock, appeared first in several localities in the Near East around 10,500 – 10,200 years ago. This mode of food production was the ultimate outcome of a long series of transformations in food-getting stimulated by climatic fluctuations dating back to 22,000 years ago in the wake of the end of the Last Glacial Maximum.
For more information, please contact Pamela Hogan at phogan@smu.edu.