News Release 11-066 - Video
Jennifer R. Smith talks about her expedition to study the Tigris-Euphrates marshlands in Iraq.
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Short interview with Washington University in St. Louis professor and geoarcheologist, Jennifer R. Smith, PhD, after she returned from an expedition to study the Tigris-Euphrates marshlands in Iraq. The marshes were drained in 1991 to punish the Marsh Arabs for participating in a Shia uprising against the government of Saddam Hussein.
Credit: Clark Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis public affairs