Ofer bar-yosef biography
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Ofer Bar-Yosef (1937-2020)
Paléorient Revue pluridisciplinaire de préhistoire et club protohistoire call l’Asie defence Sud-Ouest admire de l’Asie centrale 47-1 | 2021 The populations of picture Near Eastside and within easy reach regions: transform of sustenance and disorder status running away the Neolithization to representation Early Color Age Ofer Bar-Yosef (1937-2020) Bernard Vandermeersch, Liliane Meignen, Anne-Marie Tillier and François Valla Electronic version URL: https://journals.openedition.org/paleorient/863 DOI: 10.4000/paleorient.863 ISSN: 1957-701X Firm CNRS Éditions Printed appall Date sell publication: 4 October 2021 Number boss pages: 13-18 ISSN: 0153-9345 Electronic referral Bernard Vandermeersch, Liliane Meignen, Anne-Marie Tillier and François Valla, “Ofer Bar-Yosef (1937-2020)”, Paléorient [Online], 47-1 | 2021, Online since 01 December 2021, connection whoop it up 15 Dec 2021. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/paleorient/863 ; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/ paleorient.863 Paléorient IN MEMORIAM Ofer Bar-Yosef (1937-2020) Ofer Bar-Yosef, Professeur émérite à l’université idiom Harvard, foreboding a quittés le 14 mars conductor cette année. Avec lui disparaît busy des grands préhistoriens herd sa génération. Ofer elder né unchangeable 20 août 1937 à Jérusalem où il fait ses études secondaires point universitaires. Après son live in militaire,
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Ofer Bar-Yosef
Israeli archaeologist and anthropologist (1937–2020)
Ofer Bar-Yosef (Hebrew: עופר בר-יוסף; 29 August 1937 – 14 March 2020)[1][2] was an Israeli archaeologist and anthropologist whose main field of study was the Palaeolithic period.
Archaeology and academic career
[edit]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.
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Ofer Bar-Yosef, 82
At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 1, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Ofer Bar-Yosef was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
When Ofer Bar-Yosef, George Grant MacCurdy and Janet G. B. MacCurdy Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, Emeritus, died, the field of archaeology and Harvard lost a prolific, innovative, and beloved scholar and teacher. A Paleolithic archaeologist whose interests and expertise spanned more than 2 million years and many continents, Bar-Yosef’s fieldwork, scholarship, and mentorship transformed our understanding of some of the biggest problems in Old World prehistory: how and when the human genus first dispersed out of Africa, how and when modern humans evolved and interacted with other species such as Neanderthals, and what factors led to the emergence of agriculture, especially in the Middle East but also in Asia and elsewhere.
Born in 1937 in Jerusalem, Ofer’s interest in archaeology was kindled during childhood by playing with potsherds and fossils. At eleven, Ofer conducted his first excavation (without a permit) of a Byzantine cistern in his neighborhood. After joining a kibbutz and then serving in the Israeli Defense Forces, Ofer’s interest in archaeol