Ofer Bar-Yosef
Israeli archaeologist and anthropologist (1937–2020)
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From 1967, Bar-Yosef was Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the institution where he studied archaeology at undergraduate and post-graduate levels in the 1960s.
In 1988, upon his immigration to the U.S., where he took up a tenor of Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Harvard University 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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