Ofer Bar-Yosef ( he, עופר בר-יוסף; 29 August 1937 – 14 March 2020) was an Israeli archaeologist and anthropologist whose main field of study was the

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period. From 1967 Bar-Yosef was Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at

Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

, the institution where he originally studied archaeology at undergraduate and post-graduate levels in the 1960s. In 1988, he moved to the

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where he became Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

as well as Curator of Palaeolithic Archaeology at the

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. He was a professor emeritus. He has excavated widely on prehistoric

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ine sites including Kebara Cave, the early

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village of Netiv HaGdud, as well as on Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites in China and

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Selected publications

* ''The Natufian Culture in the Levant'' (Ed), International Monographs in Prehistory, 1992. * Late Quaternary Chronology and Paleoclimates of the Eastern Mediterranean. ''

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'', 1994. * ''Seasonality and Sedentism: Archaeological Perspectives from Old and New World Sites'', (Ed),

, 1998. * (with Belfer-Cohen, A) From Africa to Eurasia - Early Dispersals. ''

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'' 75:19-28, 2001.

References

External links

Ofer Bar-Yosef at Harvard's website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bar-Yosef, Ofer 1937 births 2020 deaths Israeli archaeologists Israeli anthropologists Harvard University faculty Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Prehistorians Jewish anthropologists Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy

Selected publications

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