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The archaeology of olive oil: British Museum excavations of a 4,500-year-old olive factory in the Wadi ar-Rayyan in Jordan. Jordan was one of the first places in the world to domesticate the olive, and olive oil would play a key role in the development of civilizations that followed. But what does the archaeology of olive oil production look like? In this talk, Dr Jamie Fraser discusses excavations of an ancient olive oil factory at Khirbet Ghozlan in the Wadi Rayyan…