Word: yosef
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...whole process can be tedious and boring, but if you keep in mind this is the only way you can find out what happened in the past, it's exciting," says Professor of Anthropology Ofer Bar-Yosef...
...exciting because you feel like you are digging in the dirt of one of the earliest villages ever known," says Bar-Yosef, who has excavated some of the oldest sites in Israel...
...Yosef says that the study of archaelogy can give the scientist an almost superhuman perspective on the course of history. The ability to analyze changes that span generations is a powerful one, he says...
Most recently, Bar-Yosef has been working on a village estimated to be at least a million years old. He says he is trying to discover whether the first humans descended from one ancestor--the so-called "African Eve"--and migrated to the Middle East or whether they developed simutaneously in different regions...
...Yosef's groundbreaking work on human origins, and the scholarship of many of his colleagues, has bolstered the standing of archaeology as an academic discipline, scholars...