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.
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.
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 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.