Avi Gopher (Hebrew: אבי גופר) is an Israeli archaeologist.
Gopher's work at Qesem with Ran Barkai and Israel Hershkowitz received considerable press coverage.
The team claimed to have discovered the oldest homo sapiens remains ever found at the cave near Rosh HaAyin in central Israel.
Their paper, published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, states that the human teeth they discovered are between 400,000 and 200,000 years old although it was impossible to definitely identify the particular species of human.
"[3] Gopher and agronomist Shahal Abbo of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have written a book that challenges the scientific consensus over the domestication of wild plants.