Tag: Ofer Bar-Yosef

Campus & Community
Ofer Bar-Yosef, 82

At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 1, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Ofer Bar-Yosef was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.

November 2, 2022
Arts & Culture
Oldest-known fibers to be used by humans discovered

A team of archaeologists and paleobiologists has discovered flax fibers that are more than 34,000 years old, making them the oldest fibers known to have been used by humans.

September 10, 2009
Campus & Community
Figs likely first domesticated crop

Archaeobotanists have found evidence that the dawn of agriculture may have come with the domestication of fig trees in the Near East some 11,400 years ago, roughly 1,000 years before…

June 8, 2006
Science & Tech
Tamed 11,400 years ago, figs likely first domesticated crop

Archaeobotanists have found evidence that the dawn of agriculture may have come with the domestication of fig trees in the Near East some 11,400 years ago, roughly 1,000 years before…

May 23, 2006
Science & Tech
Reading ancient campfires

Ofer Bar-Yosef, Harvard’s MacCurdy Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology and head of the Peabody Museum’s Stone Age Laboratory, is working in the New Stone Age, known as the Neolithic, when Homo…

January 16, 2003