Background
Bar-Yosef, Ofer was born on August 29, 1937 in Jerusalem. Came to the United States, 1988. Son of Yisrael and Leah (Lerman) Bar-Y.
anthropologist archaeologist university professor
Bar-Yosef, Ofer was born on August 29, 1937 in Jerusalem. Came to the United States, 1988. Son of Yisrael and Leah (Lerman) Bar-Y.
He was Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the institution where he originally 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 as well as Curator of Palaeolithic Archaeology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. He has excavated widely on prehistoric Levantine sites including Kebara Cave, the early Neolithic village of Netiv HaGdud, as well as on Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites in China and the Republic of Georgia.
National Academy of Sciences.
Married Daniella Bar-Yosef.