With an area of 104km in length and ranging from five to 20km in width, the Jordan Valley has hosted human occupants from the Lower Palaeolithic (about 1.4 million years ago) to the present day, noted Jordanian Professor Emeritus Zeidan Kafafi. “Hunter and gatherer camps have been discovered at sites such as Ein Gev I and II, Ain Mallaha, Wadi Hammeh, Fazael and Jericho, Kafafi said. "Around 11,000 years ago ...