Ofer Bar-Yosef

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Ofer Bar-Yosef

Ofer Bar-Yosef (

Palaeolithic
period.

Archaeology and academic career

From 1967 Bar-Yosef was Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at

Hebrew University in Jerusalem,[3]
the institution where he studied archaeology at undergraduate and post-graduate levels in the 1960s.

In 1988, he moved to the

United States of America where he became Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Harvard University[3] as well as Curator of Palaeolithic Archaeology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
.

He excavated prehistoric Levantine sites such as Kebara Cave and the early Neolithic village of Netiv HaGdud, as well as Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites in China and Georgia.

Selected publications

  • The
    Natufian Culture
    in the Levant
    (Ed), International Monographs in Prehistory, 1992.
  • Late Quaternary Chronology and Paleoclimates of the Eastern Mediterranean. Radiocarbon, 1994.
  • Seasonality and Sedentism: Archaeological Perspectives from Old and New World Sites, (Ed), Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1998.
  • (with Belfer-Cohen, A) From Africa to Eurasia - Early Dispersals. Quaternary International 75:19-28, 2001.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Ofer Bar-Yosef (1937-2020): Celebration of Life". UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
  2. doi:10.4207/PA.2020.ART142 (inactive 31 January 2024).{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link
    )
  3. ^ a b "Ofer Bar-Yosef Curriculum Vitae". Retrieved 2017-12-29.

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