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
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.