Palestine, Prehistory, and the “Origins of Agriculture”
Author biography: 

Brian Boyd is senior lecturer and director of museum anthropology at Columbia University and co-director of the Columbia Center for Palestine Studies. He is currently working on a collaborative community archaeology/museum project at the village of Shuqba, near Birzeit. He extends his thanks to his dear friend and colleague Hamed Salem, his co-presenter Omar Tesdell, Penny Mitchell, and especially Weeam Hammoudeh for organizing the 2021 MESA panel upon which this roundtable was based.