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  • 2001 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Ofer Bar-Yosef was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their academic work primarily focused on fields within Arts and Humanities, especially archaeology.

The main fields of study encompassed:

  • Arts and Humanities

Within these, their subfield specialization was in archaeology.

  • Archaeology

The research topics covered in their publications included:

  • Ancient Near East History
  • Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
  • Ancient Egypt and Archaeology

The scientist collaborated frequently with Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer.

  • Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer

In recognition of their work, Ofer Bar-Yosef was inducted as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Differential Burning, Recrystallization, and Fragmentation of Archaeological Bone

    Mary C. Stiner;Steven L. Kuhn;Stephen Weiner;Ofer Bar-Yosef

  • States of preservation of bones from prehistoric sites in the Near East: A survey

    Stephen Weiner;Ofer Bar-Yosef

  • Paleolithic population growth pulses evidenced by small animal exploitation

    Mary C. Stiner;Natalie D. Munro;Todd A. Surovell;Eitan Tchernov

  • The Upper Paleolithic Revolution

    Ofer Bar-Yosef

  • The Natufian culture in the Levant, threshold to the origins of agriculture

    Ofer Bar-Yosef

  • The Big Deal about Blades: Laminar Technologies and Human Evolution

    Ofer Bar-Yosef;Steven L. Kuhn

  • Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians

    Eppie R. Jones;Gloria Gonzalez-Fortes;Gloria Gonzalez-Fortes;Sarah Connell;Veronika Siska

  • The origins of sedentism and farming communities in the Levant

    Ofer Bar-Yosef;Anna Belfer-Cohen

  • Thermoluminescence dating of Mousterian Troto-Cro-Magnon' remains from Israel and the origin of modern man

    H. Valladas;J. L. Reyss;J. L. Joron;G. Valladas

  • Neandertals and modern humans in Western Asia

    Takeru Akazawa;Kenichi Aoki;Ofer Bar-Yosef

  • Early Pottery at 20,000 Years Ago in Xianrendong Cave, China

    Xiaohong Wu;Chi Zhang;Paul Goldberg;Paul Goldberg;David Cohen

  • From Africa to Eurasia — early dispersals

    Ofer Bar-Yosef;A. Belfer-Cohen

  • The Excavations in Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel

    O. Bar-Yosef;B. Vandermeersch;B. Arensburg;A. Belfer-Cohen

  • The broad spectrum revisited: Evidence from plant remains

    Ehud Weiss;Wilma Wetterstrom;Dani Nadel;Ofer Bar-Yosef

  • Thermoluminescence dates for the Neanderthal burial site at Kebara in Israel

    H. Valladas;J. L. Joron;G. Valladas;B. Arensburg

  • Early Domesticated Fig in the Jordan Valley

    Mordechai E. Kislev;Anat Hartmann;Ofer Bar-Yosef

  • ESR dates for the hominid burial site of Qafzeh in Israel

    H.P. Schwarcz;R. Grün;B. Vandermeersch;O. Bar-Yosef

  • The Chaîne Opératoire Approach in Middle Paleolithic Archaeology

    Ofer Bar-Yosef;Philip Van Peer

  • Ash deposits in Hayonim and Kebara caves, Israel : Macroscopic, microscopic and mineralogical observations, and their archaeological implications

    Solveig Schiegl;Paul Goldberg;Ofer Bar-Yosef;Steve Weiner

  • The Faunas of Hayonim Cave, Israel: A 200,000-Year Record of Paleolithic Diet, Demography, and Society

    Mary C. Stiner;Ofer Bar-Yosef

  • Last hunters - first farmers : new perspectives on the prehistoric transition to agriculture

    T. Douglas Price;Anne Birgitte Gebauer;Ofer Bar-Yosef

  • Ahead of the Game: Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Hunting Behaviors in the Southern Caucasus

    Daniel S. Adler;Guy Bar-Oz;Anna Belfer-Cohen;Ofer Bar-Yosef

  • Mousterian vegetal food in Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel

    Efraim Lev;Mordechai E. Kislev;Ofer Bar-Yosef

Frequent Co-Authors

Yehouda Enzel
Yehouda Enzel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Paul Goldberg
Paul Goldberg Boston University
Elisabetta Boaretto
Elisabetta Boaretto Weizmann Institute of Science
Hélène Valladas
Hélène Valladas Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Steven L. Kuhn
Steven L. Kuhn University of Arizona
Avi Gopher
Avi Gopher Tel Aviv University
Henry P. Schwarcz
Henry P. Schwarcz McMaster University
Rosa M. Albert
Rosa M. Albert Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Norbert Mercier
Norbert Mercier University of Bordeaux
Naomi Porat
Naomi Porat Physical Research Laboratory

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