Daniella Bar-Yosef is an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Maritime Civilizations and a senior researcher at the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, both at the University of Haifa.She is a researcher at the National Natural History Collections, Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University.
She has been an associate of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, Cambridge MA, U.S.A. since 1990. Since 2003 she has been the liaison of the Archaeomalacology working group of ICAZ (International Council for Archaeozoology).

2000 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ph.D. in Archaeology.

1989 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, M.A. in Prehistoric Archaeology.

1980 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, B.A. in Geography and Archaeology

Shells and Molluscs in the Archaeological Record.
Introduction to Maritime Civilizations
Scientific writing and research planning
Introduction to Phylum Mollusca

Scholarships and grants

2007 CARE Archaeological Foundation: Insight into Hunter-Gatherers’ Life: The Role of Dentalium Shells in Late Epipalaeolithic Sites of the Levant.

2005-8 Israel Science Foundation: The Emergence of Stone Beads at the Dawn of Farming: Raw Materials, Technology, Chronology and Exchange.

2003-5 Ministry of Absoption, State of Israel. Absorption in Science program.

2001-2 Wenner-Gren Foundation Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship.

1998 Travel Award from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for participation in ASWA conference

1992-5; 2001 American School of Prehistoric Research - Shells of Çayönü, Turkey.

1991 Irene Levi-Sala Care Archaeological Foundation - Grant for study of Neolithic Shell Assemblages.

1990 Irene Levi-Sala Care Archaeological Foundation - Grant for study of Harifian Shell Assemblages.

Ph.D. Dissertation:
The Role of Shells in the Reconstruction of Socio-Economic Aspects of Neolithic through Early Bronze Age societies in Sinai. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1999.

M.A. thesis:
Marine Molluscs from Neolithic sites in Southern Sinai. Institute of Archaeology. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 1989.

Edited volume
Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. (editor), 2005, Archaeomalacology: Molluscs in Former Environments of Human Behaviour. Oxbow Books, Oxford.

Peer-Reviewed Journals

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. and Beyin, A. 2009, Late Stone Age Shell Middens on the Red Sea Coast of Eritrea. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 4: 108-124.

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., Vandermeersch, B. and O. Bar-Yosef, 2009, Modern Behavior of Anatomically Modern Humans: Shells and ochre from Qafzeh Cave, Israel. Journal of Human Evolution. 56: 307–314

Nadel D., Lengyel G., Bocquentin F., Tsatskin A., Rosenberg D., Yeshurun R., Bar-Oz G., Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., Beeri R., Conyers L., Filin S., Hershkovitz I., Kurzawska A., Weissbrod, L. 2008, The Late Natufian at Raqefet Cave: The 2006 Excavation Season. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 38: 59-131.

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2008, Dentalium Shells Used by Hunter-Gatherers and Pastoralists in the Levant. Archaeofauna 17: 103-110.

Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer and Naomi Porat, 2008, Green Stone Beads at the Dawn of Agriculture, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A. 105(25): 8548-8551.

Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, 2007, Archaeomalacological Research in Israel: The Current State of Research. Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 56(2-4): 191–206.

Valla F. R., H. Khalaily, H. Valladas, E. Kaltnecker, F. Bocquentin, T. Cabellos, D. E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, G. Le Dosseur, L. Regev, V. Chu, S. Weiner, E. Boaretto, N. Samuelian, B. Valentin, S. Delerue, G. Poupeau, A. Bridault, R. Rabinovich, T. Simmons, I. Zohar, S. Ashkenazi, A. Delgado Huertas, B. Spiro, H. K. Mienis, A. M. Rosen, N. Porat, A. Belfer-Cohen, 2007, Les Fouilles de Ain Mallha (Eynan) de 2003 à 2005 : quatrième rapport préliminaire. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 37: 135-383.

Mina Weinstein-Evron, Daniel Kaufman, Noga Bachrach, Guy Bar-Oz, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Sylvia Chaim, Dothan Druck, Iris Groman-Yaroslavski, Israel Hershkovitz, Nataly Liber, Danny Rosenberg, Alexander Tsatskin, and Lior Weissbrod, 2007, After 70 Years: New Excavations at the el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel, Israel. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 37: 1-99.

Bar-Oz, G., R. Bouchnik, E. Weiss, L. Weissbrod, D. E. Bar-Yosef Mayer and R. Reich 2007, “Holy Garbage”: A Quantitative Study of the City-Dump of Early
Roman Jerusalem. Levant 39:1-12.

Sivan, D., Potasman M., Almogi-Labin A., Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., Spanier E. and E. Boaretto. 2006, The Glycymeris query along the coasts and shallow shelf of Israel, southeast Mediterranean. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 233 :134-148.

Garfinkel, Y., Dag, D., Hesse, B., Wapnish, P., Rookis, D., Hartman, G., Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. and O. Lernau, 2005, Neolithic Ashkelon: Meat Processing and Early Pastoralism on the Mediterranean Coast. Eurasian Prehistory 3(1): 43-72.

Lengyel, G., Nadel, D., Tsatskin A., Bar-Oz, G., Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., Be’eri, R., and I. Hershkovitz 2005, Back to Raqefet Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 35: 245-270.

Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 2005, Pelecypod Beds Revisited: Glycymeris in Bronze Age Sites. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 35: 45-52.

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2005, The Exploitation of Shells as Beads in the Palaeolithic and Neolithic of the Levant. Paléorient 31/1: 176-185.

Kuhn, S.L., A. Belfer-Cohen, O. Barzilai, M.C. Stiner, K.W. Kerry, N. Munro, D.E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, 2004, The Last Glacial Maximum at Meged Rockshelter, Upper Galilee, Israel. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society. 34:5-47.

Valla F.R., Khalaily H., Valladas H., Tinerat-Laborde N., Samuelian N., Bocquentin F., Rabinovich R., Bridault A., Simmons T., Le Dosseur G., Miller-Rosen A., Dubreuil L., Bar-Yosef Mayer D., Belfer-Cohen A., 2004, Les fouilles à Mallaha en 2000 et 2001 : 3ème rapport préliminaire. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society.34:49-244.

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., N. Porat, Z. Gal, D. Shalem and H. Smithline, 2004, Steatite Beads at Peqi’in: Long Distance Trade and Pyro-Technology during the Chalcolithic of the Levant. Journal of Archaeological Science 31:493-502.

Nadel, D., A. Tsatskin, D.E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, M. Belmaker, E. Boaretto, M.E.
Kislev, I. Hershkovitz, R. Rabinovich, O. Simchoni, T. Simmons, E. Weiss, I. Zohar, G. Emmer, T. Ghraieb, U. Grinberg, P. Spivak, L. Weissbrod and Y.
Zaidner, 2003, The Ohalo II 2001 Season of Excavation: A Preliminary Report. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 33: 9-36.

Nadel D., A. Tsatskin, D.E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, M. Belmaker, E. Boaretto, M.E.
Kislev, I. Hershkovitz, R. Rabinovich, T. Simmons, E. Weiss, I. Zohar, O.
Asfur, G. Emmer, T. Ghraieb, U. Grinberg, H. Halabi, L. Weissbrod and Y.
Zaidner, 2002, The Ohalo II 1999 - 2000 Seasons of Excavation: A Preliminary
Report. Mitekufat Haeven, Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society
32:17-48.

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. 1999, Mollusc Shells, in: A. Golani and E.C.M. van den Brink, Salvage Excvations at the Early Bronze Age IA Settlement of Azor. ‘Atiqot XXXVIII:1-49.

Bar-Yosef, D.E. 1999, Marine Shells at Saflulim and Rosh Horesha (New Excavations): A Preliminary Report. Palestine Exploration Quarterly January-June:62-64.

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. 1997, Horvat Galil and Nahal Bezet: The molluscs. Tel Aviv 24 (2):223-228.

Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 1997, Neolithic Shell Bead Production in Sinai. Journal of Archaeological Science 24:97-111

Goring-Morris, A.N., Y. Goren, L.K. Horwitz, I. Hershkovitz, R. Lieberman, J. Sarel and D. Bar-Yosef, 1994-5, The 1992 Season of Excavations at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Settlement of Kefar HaHoresh. Mitekufat Haeven 26:74-121.

Goring-Morris, A.N., Y. Goren, L.K. Horwitz, D. Bar-Yosef, I. Hershkovitz, 1995, Investigations at an Early Neolithic Settlement in the Lower Galilee: results of the 1991 season at Kefar HaHoresh. ‘Atiqot 28:37-62.

Hovers E., L.K. Horwitz, D.E. Bar-Yosef and C. Cope-Miyashiro, 1988, The site of Urkan-e-Rub IIa, A Case Study of Subsistence and Mobility Patterns in the Kebaran period in the Lower Jordan Valley. Mitequfat Ha'Even 21:20-48.

Bar-Yosef D.E. and J. Heller, 1987, Mollusca from Yiftah'el, Lower Galilee, Israel. Paléorient 13(1):131-135.


Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings

Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 2005, An Introduction to Archaeomalacology. In: Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. (editor), Archaeomalacology: Molluscs in Former Environments of Human Behaviour. Oxbow Books, Oxford.
Pp. 1-4.

Bar-Yosef, O. and D.E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, 2002, Early Neolithic Tribes in the Levant. In: The Archaeology of Tribal Societies. Edited by W.A. Parkinson. International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor, MI.
pp. 340-371.

Excavation Reports

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. and B.A. Gümüs, 2008, Shell archive report 2008
http://www.catalhoyuk.com/archive_reports/

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. 2007, Shell trade at Kadesh Barnea. In: Excavations at Kadesh Barnea (Tell el-Qudeirat) 1976 - 1982 by Rudolph Cohen and Hannah Bernick-Greenberg. Israel Antiquities Authority Reports 34/1:273-283.

Bar-Yosef Mayer D. E. 2006, Mollusc shells from Tel Batash. In N. Panitz-Cohen and A. Mazar (Eds.), Timnah (Tel Batash) III: The Finds from the Second Millennium BCE Qedem 45:315-318.

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. and I. Baruch, 2006, Mollusc Shells, In: Megiddo IV: The 1998-2002 Seasons, edited by I. Finkelstein, D. Ussishkin and B. Halpern. Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology, Tel Aviv. Pp. 497-504.

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. 2006, Marine and Riverine Shells at Gilat. In: Levy, T. E. Ed. Archaeology, Anthropology and Cult: The Sanctuary at Gilat, Israel. London: Equinox. Pp. 320-326.

Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 2006, Construction and Trade: The Shells from Tel Beth-Shean, in Excavations at Tel Beth-Shean 1989-1996, Volume I. From the Late Bronze Age IIB to the Medieval Period, by Amihai Mazar. Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem. Pp. 711-722.

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2004 Section C: The Mollusc Shells. In: D. Ussishkin (ed.). The Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish (1973-1994). Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology, Monograph Series 22, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv. Vol. V:2490-2503.

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2003, A Third Shell Assemblage from Abu Ghosh. In: Khalaily, H. and O. Marder, The Neolithic Site of Abu Ghosh, The 1995 Excavations. IAA Reports 19: 73-74.

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D. E., 2003, Mollusc Shells and Shell Beads. In: I. Beit-Arieh, Archaeology of Sinai: The Ophir Expedition. Tel Aviv, Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology: 229-241.

Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 2003, Shell beads, freshwater clams and landsnails at Tel Qashish. In: A. Ben-Tor, R. Bonfil and S. Zuckerman, Tel Qashish: A Village in the Valley of Jezreel. Report of the Archaeological Excavations (1978-1987), Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem. Qedem Reports 5:415-423.

Bar-Yosef Mayer D., 2002, Chapter 7: The Shell Pendants. Kissufim Road: A Chalcolithic Mortuary Site, Edited by Y. Goren and P. Fabian. Israel Antiquities Authority Reports 16. Jerusalem. pp.49-52

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. 2000, Appendix IV: A Shell from Horvat ‘Eleq, In: Ramat Hanadiv Excavations by Y. Hirschfeld. Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem. pp. 749.

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. 2000, Chapter 16: Mollusc Shells, In: Megiddo III: The 1992-1996 Seasons, edited by I. Finkelstein, D. Ussishkin and B. Halpern. Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology, Tel Aviv University. pp. 478-486

Bar-Yosef, D. 1999, Shells from Three Middle Bronze Age I Sites in the Negev Highlands, In: Ancient Settlement of the Central Negev, edited by R. Cohen. Israel Antiquities Authority, vol. I:322-326 (in Hebrew).

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. 1997, The Marine shells of Yiftah'el Areas A and B. In: Yiftah'el: Salvage and Rescue Excavations at a Prehistoric Village in Lower Galilee, Israel. Edited by E. Braun. Israel Antiquities Authority Reports 2:200-202.

Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 1997, Miscellaneous Finds: The Marine Shells from Netiv Hagdud. In: An Early Neolithic Village in the Jordan Valley, Part I: The Archaeology of Netiv Hagdud. Edited by O. Bar-Yosef and A. Gopher. American School of Prehistoric Research Bulletin 43:189-192.

Bar-Yosef, D.E. 1995, The Molluscs from Grar. In: Grar - A Chalclolithic site in the Northern Negev. Edited by Isaac Gilead. Ben Gurion University of the Negev Press. Beer Sheva. pp. 453-462.

Bar-Yosef, D.E. 1994, The Marine Shells. In: Le Gisement de Hatoula en Judée occidentale, Israël. Edited by Monique Lechevallier and Avraham Ronen. Memoires et travaux de centre de recherche Français de Jérusalem. No. 8. Association Paléorient, Paris. pp. 233-238.

Heller J. and D. Bar-Yosef, 1985, Molluscs from the Excavation at Sde Boqer. In: Sde Boqer and the Central Negev, 7th-8th century AD, by Y.D. Nevo, Jerusaelm. p. 33.

Conference Proceedings

Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 2008, Mediterranean, Red Sea and Nilotic Shell Artifacts in the Levant: Indicators of Trade Routes in the Bronze Age. In: Early Human Impact on Megamollusks, edited by Andrzej Antczak and Roberto Cipriani. British Archaeological Reports. Oxford: Archaeopress. pp. 197-208.

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. 2005, Shells in the archaeological record: Lachish as a case study. In: Environmental Archaeology, edited by A. Faust and O. Ackerman. Bar-Ilan University. Pp. 105-115. Hebrew.

Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 2002, The Shells of the Nawamis in Southern Sinai. In: Archaeozoology of the Near East V. Edited by H. Buitenhuis, A. Choyke, M. Mashkour and A.H. Al-Shiyab. ARC- Publicatie 62, Groningen. pp. 166-180.

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2002, Egyptian-Canaanite Interaction during the Fourth and Third Millennia B.C.: The Shell Connection. In: Egypt and the Levant: Interrelations from the 4th through the Early 3rd Millennium B.C.E. Edited by E.C.M. van den Brink and T.E. Levy. Continuum, London. pp. 129-135.

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. 2000, The Economic Importance of Molluscs in the Levant. In: Archaeozoology of the Near East IV A: proceedings of the fourth International Symposium on the Archaeozoology of Southwestern Asia and Adjacent Areas. Edited by M. Mashkour, A.M. Choyke, H. Buitenhuis, and F. Poplin. ARC Publicatie 32, Groningen. pp. 218-227.

Bar-Yosef D.E.,1991, Changes in the selection of marine shells during the transition from the Natufian to the Neolithic. In The Natufian Culture in the Levant. Edited by F. Valla and O. Bar-Yosef. International Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor. pp.629-636.

Crabtree P.J., D.V. Campana, A. Belfer-Cohen and D.E. Bar-Yosef,1991, First Results of the Excavations at Salibiya I, Lower Jordan Valley.In The Natufian Culture in the Levant. Edited by F. Valla and O. Bar-Yosef. Monographs in Prehistory, Ann Arbor. pp.161-172.

Bar-Yosef D.E., 1989, Late Paleolithic and Neolithic Marine shells in the southern Levant as cultural markers. In: Proceedings of the 1986 Shell Bead Conference. Edited by C.F. Hayes and L. Ceci. Rochester Museum and Science Center. Research Records 20:169-174.

Encyclopedia Entries

Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 2008, Invertebrate Analysis, In Encyclopedia of Archaeology, edited by Deborah Pearsall. Oxford: Elsevier. Pp. 1560-1565.

Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 2001, Shells, Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy
Land, Revised and Updated edition. Edited by A. Negev and S. Gibson. Continuum, New York. p. 462.

Papers in edited volumes

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E., 2002, The Use of Mollusc Shells by Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers at Ohalo II. In Ohalo II: A 23,000 Year Old Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers’ Camp on the Shore of the Sea of Galilee. Edited by D. Nadel. Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum, University of Haifa, Haifa. pp. 39-41 (Hebrew and English).

Horwitz, Liora Kolska , Eitan Tchernov, Henk K. Mienis, Dalia Hakker-Orion and Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, 2002, The Archaeozoology of Three Early Bronze Age Sites in Nahal Besor, north-western Negev. In Quest of Ancient Settlements and Landscapes: Archaeological Studies in Honour of Ram Gophna. Edited by E. van den Brink and E. Yannai. Ramot Publishing, Tel Aviv. pp.107-133.

Özdogan, M., A. Özdogan, D. Bar-Yosef and W. Van Zeist, 1993, Çayönü kazisi ve güneydogu analolu karma projesi: 30 yillik genel bir degerlendirme. Kazi sonuçlari toplantisi I. 24-28 Mayis 1993, Ankara. T.C. Kültur bakanligi. pp. 103-122. In Turkish.

Papers in non-refereed journals

Mienis, H.K., Ben-David Zaslow, R., and D.E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, 2006, Glycymeris in the Levant Sea 1. Finds of Recent Glycymeris insubrica in the South East Corner of the Mediterranean Sea. Triton 13 : 5-9.

Bar-Yosef Mayer D.E., 2003, On the Practicalities of Shell Analysis. The Archaeo+Malacology Group Newsletter 3:2-4. http://triton.anu.edu.au/

Bar-Yosef Mayer, D. 1999, Shells from Archaeological Contexts in Israel. Qadmoniot XXXII(117):45-51 (in Hebrew).