Publications by authors named "Ofer Bar-Yosef"

30Publications

Personal ornaments from Hayonim and Manot caves (Israel) hint at symbolic ties between the Levantine and the European Aurignacian.

Authors:
José-Miguel Tejero Rivka Rabinovich Reuven Yeshurun Talia Abulafia Ofer Bar-Yosef Omry Barzilai Mae Goder-Goldberger Israel Hershkovitz Ron Lavi Maayan Shemer Ofer Marder Anna Belfer-Cohen

J Hum Evol 2020 Sep 10:102870. Epub 2020 Sep 10.

Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91905, Israel.

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September 2020

On holes and strings: Earliest displays of human adornment in the Middle Palaeolithic.

Authors:
Daniella E Bar-Yosef Mayer Iris Groman-Yaroslavski Ofer Bar-Yosef Israel Hershkovitz Astrid Kampen-Hasday Bernard Vandermeersch Yossi Zaidner Mina Weinstein-Evron

PLoS One 2020 8;15(7):e0234924. Epub 2020 Jul 8.

Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.

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September 2020

Acheulo-Yabrudian and Early Middle Paleolithic at Hayonim Cave (Western Galilee, Israel): Continuity or break?

Authors:
Liliane Meignen Ofer Bar-Yosef

J Hum Evol 2020 02 13;139:102733. Epub 2020 Feb 13.

Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138, USA.

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February 2020

Re-thinking the evolution of microblade technology in East Asia: Techno-functional understanding of the lithic assemblage from Shizitan 29 (Shanxi, China).

Authors:
Yanhua Song Stefano Grimaldi Fabio Santaniello David J Cohen Jinming Shi Ofer Bar-Yosef

PLoS One 2019 25;14(2):e0212643. Epub 2019 Feb 25.

Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.

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November 2019

Critical role of climate change in plant selection and millet domestication in North China.

Authors:
Xiaoyan Yang Wenxiang Wu Linda Perry Zhikun Ma Ofer Bar-Yosef David J Cohen Hongbo Zheng Quansheng Ge

Sci Rep 2018 05 18;8(1):7855. Epub 2018 May 18.

Key Lab. of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China.

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May 2018

Symbolic emblems of the Levantine Aurignacians as a regional entity identifier (Hayonim Cave, Lower Galilee, Israel).

Authors:
José-Miguel Tejero Anna Belfer-Cohen Ofer Bar-Yosef Vitaly Gutkin Rivka Rabinovich

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018 05 30;115(20):5145-5150. Epub 2018 Apr 30.

Institute of Earth Sciences, National Natural History Collections, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel;

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May 2018

Agricultural origins on the Anatolian plateau.

Authors:
Douglas Baird Andrew Fairbairn Emma Jenkins Louise Martin Caroline Middleton Jessica Pearson Eleni Asouti Yvonne Edwards Ceren Kabukcu Gökhan Mustafaoğlu Nerissa Russell Ofer Bar-Yosef Geraldine Jacobsen Xiaohong Wu Ambroise Baker Sarah Elliott

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018 04 19;115(14):E3077-E3086. Epub 2018 Mar 19.

Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, EX4 4QE Exeter, United Kingdom.

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April 2018

Dietary adaptation of FADS genes in Europe varied across time and geography.

Authors:
Kaixiong Ye Feng Gao David Wang Ofer Bar-Yosef Alon Keinan

Nat Ecol Evol 2017 May 26;1:167. Epub 2017 May 26.

Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.

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May 2017

Morphological description and morphometric analyses of the Upper Palaeolithic human remains from Dzudzuana and Satsurblia caves, western Georgia.

Authors:
Cristiana Margherita Gregorio Oxilia Veronica Barbi Daniele Panetta Jean-Jacques Hublin David Lordkipanidze Tengiz Meshveliani Nino Jakeli Zinovi Matskevich Ofer Bar-Yosef Anna Belfer-Cohen Ron Pinhasi Stefano Benazzi

J Hum Evol 2017 12 3;113:83-90. Epub 2017 Sep 3.

Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, Via Ddegli Ariani 1, 48121 Ravenna, Italy; Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany. Electronic address:

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December 2017

Response to Comments on "Outburst flood at 1920 BCE supports historicity of China's Great Flood and the Xia dynasty".

Authors:
Qinglong Wu Zhijun Zhao Li Liu Darryl E Granger Hui Wang David J Cohen Xiaohong Wu Maolin Ye Ofer Bar-Yosef Bin Lu Jin Zhang Peizhen Zhang Daoyang Yuan Wuyun Qi Linhai Cai Shibiao Bai

Science 2017 03;355(6332):1382

School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.

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March 2017

A Unique Assemblage of Engraved Plaquettes from Ein Qashish South, Jezreel Valley, Israel: Figurative and Non-Figurative Symbols of Late Pleistocene Hunters-Gatherers in the Levant.

Authors:
Alla Yaroshevich Ofer Bar-Yosef Elisabeta Boaretto Valentina Caracuta Noam Greenbaum Naomi Porat Joel Roskin

PLoS One 2016 24;11(8):e0160687. Epub 2016 Aug 24.

Department of Maritime Civilizations, Charney School of Marine Studies and the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies (RIMS), University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.

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July 2017

Identification of the earliest collagen- and plant-based coatings from Neolithic artefacts (Nahal Hemar cave, Israel).

Authors:
Caroline Solazzo Blandine Courel Jacques Connan Bart E van Dongen Holly Barden Kirsty Penkman Sheila Taylor Beatrice Demarchi Pierre Adam Philippe Schaeffer Arie Nissenbaum Ofer Bar-Yosef Michael Buckley

Sci Rep 2016 08 9;6:31053. Epub 2016 Aug 9.

Faculty of Life Sciences, Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, Manchester, M1 7DN, United Kingdom.

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August 2016

Outburst flood at 1920 BCE supports historicity of China's Great Flood and the Xia dynasty.

Authors:
Qinglong Wu Zhijun Zhao Li Liu Darryl E Granger Hui Wang David J Cohen Xiaohong Wu Maolin Ye Ofer Bar-Yosef Bin Lu Jin Zhang Peizhen Zhang Daoyang Yuan Wuyun Qi Linhai Cai Shibiao Bai

Science 2016 Aug;353(6299):579-82

School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China. Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, China.

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August 2016

Hunted gazelles evidence cooling, but not drying, during the Younger Dryas in the southern Levant.

Authors:
Gideon Hartman Ofer Bar-Yosef Alex Brittingham Leore Grosman Natalie D Munro

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016 Apr 28;113(15):3997-4002. Epub 2016 Mar 28.

Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269;

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April 2016

Nahal Ein Gev II, a Late Natufian Community at the Sea of Galilee.

Authors:
Leore Grosman Natalie D Munro Itay Abadi Elisabetta Boaretto Dana Shaham Anna Belfer-Cohen Ofer Bar-Yosef

PLoS One 2016 27;11(1):e0146647. Epub 2016 Jan 27.

Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States of America.

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July 2016

Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians.

Authors:
Eppie R Jones Gloria Gonzalez-Fortes Sarah Connell Veronika Siska Anders Eriksson Rui Martiniano Russell L McLaughlin Marcos Gallego Llorente Lara M Cassidy Cristina Gamba Tengiz Meshveliani Ofer Bar-Yosef Werner Müller Anna Belfer-Cohen Zinovi Matskevich Nino Jakeli Thomas F G Higham Mathias Currat David Lordkipanidze Michael Hofreiter Andrea Manica Ron Pinhasi Daniel G Bradley

Nat Commun 2015 Nov 16;6:8912. Epub 2015 Nov 16.

Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.

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November 2015

Experimental Barley Flour Production in 12,500-Year-Old Rock-Cut Mortars in Southwestern Asia.

Authors:
David Eitam Mordechai Kislev Adiel Karty Ofer Bar-Yosef

PLoS One 2015 31;10(7):e0133306. Epub 2015 Jul 31.

Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.

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May 2016

The Origin of Cultivation and Proto-Weeds, Long Before Neolithic Farming.

Authors:
Ainit Snir Dani Nadel Iris Groman-Yaroslavski Yoel Melamed Marcelo Sternberg Ofer Bar-Yosef Ehud Weiss

PLoS One 2015 22;10(7):e0131422. Epub 2015 Jul 22.

The Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

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April 2016

Early pottery at 20,000 years ago in Xianrendong Cave, China.

Authors:
Xiaohong Wu Chi Zhang Paul Goldberg David Cohen Yan Pan Trina Arpin Ofer Bar-Yosef

Science 2012 Jun;336(6089):1696-700

School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.

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June 2012

Who were the makers of the Châtelperronian culture?

Authors:
Ofer Bar-Yosef Jean-Guillaume Bordes

J Hum Evol 2010 Nov 8;59(5):586-93. Epub 2010 Aug 8.

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November 2010