Transitions in Prehistory Essays in Honor of Ofer Bar-Yosef |
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Editor:
| Strand, Eva B. Andersson Gleba, Margarita Mannering, Ulla Munkholt, Cherine Ringgard, |
Author:
| Shea, John J. Lieberman, Daniel E. |
ISBN: | 978-1-78297-304-1 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2009 |
Publisher: | Oxbow Books, Limited
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $17.50 |
Book Description:
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This collection of papers celebrates the career of Ofer Bar-Yosef and his contribution to the study of prehistory. As professor at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University (1970-1988) and as MacCurdy Professor at Harvard University (1989-present), Ofer has had a huge impact on prehistoric archaeology, fostering multi-national research projects worldwide. With such wide-ranging research interests spanning his career, the editors of this book needed to find a theme which...
More DescriptionThis collection of papers celebrates the career of Ofer Bar-Yosef and his contribution to the study of prehistory. As professor at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University (1970-1988) and as MacCurdy Professor at Harvard University (1989-present), Ofer has had a huge impact on prehistoric archaeology, fostering multi-national research projects worldwide. With such wide-ranging research interests spanning his career, the editors of this book needed to find a theme which could somehow reflect the entirety of his career so far. The theme they chose was transitions in prehistory a topic that Ofer has written on from the early phases of his career to the present day. They have called upon students and long-term collaborators to address questions about important transitions in prehistory, dividing the papers into three groups: transitions in the Pleistocene; transitions in the Holocene; and methodological and theoretical transitions, changes in the way archaeologists view the nature of the evidence and our explanations of the archaeological record.