Yosef Garfinkel

Dr. Yosef Garfinkel has directed the excavation of numerous sites throughout Israel, including the famous Chalcolithic site of Sh'ar Hagolan and, more recently, Tel Tsaf. Since 1994 he has served as Curator of the Archaeological Museum at Kibbutz Sha'ar Hagolan.

Dr. Garfinkel has written more than seventy articles and ninety books, including Dancing at the Dawn of Agriculture (Univ. of Texas Press, 2003) and The Goddess of Sha'ar Hagolan (Israel Exploration Society, 2004).