Ofer Bar-Yosef
Ofer Bar-Yosef (
Palaeolithic
period.
Archaeology and academic career
From 1967 Bar-Yosef was Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at
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 Culturein 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
- ^ "Ofer Bar-Yosef (1937-2020): Celebration of Life". UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Retrieved 2020-03-25.
- doi:10.4207/PA.2020.ART142 (inactive 31 January 2024).)
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: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link - ^ a b "Ofer Bar-Yosef Curriculum Vitae". Retrieved 2017-12-29.