Two Beginnings in Western Asia: From the First Humans Out of Africa to the Neolithic Revolution and Birth of Farming - Ofer Bar

Ofer Bar-Yosef is MacCurdy Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology and director of the Stone Age Laboratory housed in Harvard University's Peabody Museum. The lab maintains a unique research environment, combining the Peabody Museum's famous collections of stone tools dating from 1.8 million to 7000 years ago with state-of-the-art computer technology. Dr. Bar-Yosef was appointed Professor of Anthropology at Harvard and Curator of Paleolithic Archaeology in the Peabody Museum. He came to Harvard from Hebrew University in Jerusalem where he was Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology in the Institute of Archaeology. He is a member of the National Academy of Science.