Tamar Rosenberg-Yefet

Biographical Information

Tamar Rosenberg-Yefet is a prehistorian archaeologist. She received her Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University, Israel in 2023. Her research focuses on lithic technology, learning processes in the Paleolithic, cultural evolution theory and human-environment relations in the old world. She had been working on lithic analysis of verity of Lower Paleolithic archaeological assemblages for many years and participated in various excavations. Her research interests include the cognitive aspect of learning, decision making through lithic reduction sequences and other behavioral aspects that can be reflected from the lithic assemblage. She is currently working with a team of researchers in South India on an experimental archaeology project on learning mechanisms. She is passionate advocate for making prehistory accessible to the public by giving popular lectures, including publishing a forthcoming children's book that introduces young readers to the prehistoric world.