At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Nov. 1, 2022, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Ofer Bar-Yosef was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
Part One
By Dr Alex Menez
In my reportage of the Calpe Conference last year I wrote about how restrictions during the Covid-19
pandemic had limited the number of people that attended. Of how difficult it had been to meet and greet
friends and .
Israel Antiquities Authority excavations at the Byzantine church. (Yoli Schwartz/ Israel Antiquities Authority)
Beit Harel pre-military program students washing finds at the Beit Nattif archaeological excavation. (Yoli Schwartz/Israel Antiquities Authority)
High school pupils at the Israel Antiquities Authority excavation of the earliest soap factory in Israel, in Rahat, a Beduin city in the Negev Desert. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)
IAA archaeologist Dr. Lior Weisbrod with tiny fossils of rodents from the excavation. (Yoli Schwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority)
Since most archaeologists had to hang up their shovels during pandemic-stricken 2020, they suddenly had time to work on their research and there’s a plethora of publications to prove it.