Ofer Bar-Yosef

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Ofer Bar-Yosef, 2006

Ofer Bar-Yosef ; Hebrew עופר בר-יוסף; (* 1937 in Jerusalem - March 14, 2020 ) was an Israeli-American archaeologist whose work focused on the Palaeolithic .

His father's family moved from Morocco around 1850 , his mother's from Lithuania to Palestine in 1891 . 1955 to 1958 he did his military service on the Sinai , where comrades taught him the analysis of lithic artifacts ; In 1957 he completed a traineeship on the excavation in the Kebara cave , which Moshe Stekelis directed. In 1959, Ofer helped dig at an early Bronze Age site in the Jordan Valley .

He studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1963 , his master 's degree in 1965 and his doctorate in 1970 . Here he also became a professor of prehistoric archeology. Appointed to Harvard University in 1988 , he also became curator for paleolithic archeology at the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology . In 2001 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

Bar-Yosef dug at many sites in the Levant , including the Kebara Cave, the early Neolithic village of Netiv HaGdud (2004–2005), in Turkey ( Öküzini Cave ) and in the Czech Republic, but also in the Chinese province of Hunan ( Yuchanyan -Cave) and in Georgia . At the 'Ubeidiya excavation site in the Jordan Valley (excavation campaigns 1960 to 1974), he was able to prove that it was used 1.5 million years ago. In addition, in the caves of Kebara, Qafzeh and Hayonim, he documented the presence of early representatives of anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens ) in the Levant, as well as later of Neanderthals in Kebara.

Publications (selection)

  • with François R. Valla (ed.): The Natufian Culture in the Levant (= International Monographs in Prehistory. Archaeological Series , 1), International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor 1991. ISBN 1-879621-01-0 .
  • with Renee S. Kra (Ed.): Late Quaternary Chronology and Paleoclimates of the Eastern Mediterranean , University of Arizona Press, 1994. ISBN 0-9638314-1-0 .
  • with Harold L. Dibble (Ed.): The definition and interpretation of Levallois technology (= Monographs in World Archeology , 23), Prehistory Press, Madison 1995. ISBN 1-88109-412-X .
  • with Thomas R. Rocek (Ed.): Seasonality and Sedentism. Archaeological Perspectives from Old and New World Sites (= Peabody Museum. Bulletin , 6), Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology - Harvard University, Cambridge 1998. ISBN 0-87365-956-2 .
  • with Takeru Akazawa, Kenichi Aoki (ed.): Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia , Plenum Press, New York 1998. ISBN 0-306-45924-8 .
  • with Anna Belfer-Cohen: From Africa to Eurasia - Early Dispersals , in: Quaternary International 75 (2001) 19–28, doi : 10.1016 / S1040-6182 (00) 00074-4 .
  • Eat what is there: hunting and gathering in the world of Neanderthals and their neighbors , in: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 14 (2004) 333-342. doi: 10.1002 / oa.765 , full text (PDF)
  • with Liliane Meignen (Ed.): Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel, Israel. The Middle and Upper Paleolithic Archeology (= American School of Prehistoric Research. Bulletin , 49), Volume 1, Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology - Harvard University, Cambridge 2007. ISBN 978-0-87365-553-8 .
  • with Katherine V. Boyle, Clive Gamble (Ed.): The Upper Palaeolithic Revolution in Global Perspective. Papers in Honor of Sir Paul Mellars , McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge 2010. ISBN 978-1-902937-53-3 .
  • with François R. Valla (Ed.): Natufian Foragers in the Levant. Terminal Pleistocene Social Changes in Western Asia (= International Monographs in Prehistory. Archeological Series , 19), International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor 2013. ISBN 978-1-879621-45-9 .
  • with Royal E. Taylor: Radiocarbon Dating. An Archaeological Perspective , 2nd ed., Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek 2014. ISBN 978-1-59874-590-0

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SURNAME Bar-Yosef, Ofer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES בר-יוסף, עופר (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli archaeologist whose work focuses on the Paleolithic
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 2020