In Ancient Times: A History of the Early World, originally intended as a high school textbook, Breasted wrote: “The earliest home of men in this great arena of Western Asia is…a kind of cultivable ...

called the “Ghassanian”, is defined for these desert margins of the Fertile Crescent,” noted the French archaeologist René Cressard. "Numerous arrowheads were discovered in all the ...

“On the basis of the specific characteristics of the whole lithic assemblage, a new regional techno-complex, called the “Ghassanian”, is defined for these desert margins of the Fertile Crescent,” ...