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Ofer Bar-Yosef
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 305
Citations - 19613
Ofer Bar-Yosef is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cave & Upper Paleolithic. The author has an hindex of 75, co-authored 305 publications receiving 17956 citations. Previous affiliations of Ofer Bar-Yosef include Weizmann Institute of Science & Boston University.
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Differential Burning, Recrystallization, and Fragmentation of Archaeological Bone
TL;DR: In this paper, the conditions under which progressive levels of burning may occur to archaeological bone, and how burning damage changes bones' crystal structure and susceptibility to fragmentation (a.k.a. friability).
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States of preservation of bones from prehistoric sites in the Near East: A survey
Stephen Weiner,Ofer Bar-Yosef +1 more
TL;DR: A survey of the states of preservation of organic material in 30 fossil bones from 16 different prehistoric sites in the Near East shows that whereas almost all the bones have little or no collagen preserved, they do, with few exceptions, contain non-collagenous proteins.
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Paleolithic population growth pulses evidenced by small animal exploitation
TL;DR: Variations in small game hunting along the northern and eastern rims of the Mediterranean Sea and results from predator-prey simulation modeling indicate that human population densities increased abruptly during the late Middle Paleolithic and again during the Upper and Epi-Paleolithic periods.
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The Upper Paleolithic Revolution
TL;DR: The transition from the Middle Paleolithic to the Upper Paleolithic is considered one of the major revolutions in the prehistory of humankind as discussed by the authors, and explanations of observable archaeological phenomena in Eurasia, or the lack of such evidence in other regions, include biological arguments (the role of Cro-Magnons and the demise of the Neanderthals), as well as cultural-technological, and environmental arguments.
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The Natufian culture in the Levant, threshold to the origins of agriculture
TL;DR: The question of why the emergence of farming communities in the Near East was an inevitable outcome of a series of social and economic circumstances that caused the Natufian culture to be considered the threshold for this major evolutionary change is addressed.