Cyprus

I have completed a draft of my paper, “Archaeological Data and Small Projects: A Case Study from the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project” for the Archaeological Institute of America’s annual meeting later this week. I have blogged on this already and circulated the draft for feedback from some remarkable co-authors and colleagues. As they will undoubtedly notice,… Read More →

This week the team from the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project is presenting a paper and the annual meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research. The paper presents some of our most recent research including preliminary observations on our field work in summer 2012. The paper is a bit of an awkward hybrid bringing together a… Read More →

For the last week, I’ve been working on a grant application for study work next year at the site of Polis-Chrysochous on Cyprus. It’s timely not only because the grant application is due on November 1st, but also because an exhibit dedicated to the work at Polis titled City of Gold: Tomb and Temple in… Read More →

Last week, my coauthors and I largely finished the historical conclusions section of our monograph detailing our intensive pedestrian survey at the site of Pyla-Koutsopetria between 2003-2010. This is far from the last word on the site (and is even unlikely to be the last word from our survey work on the project). That being… Read More →

Next Tuesday, I’ll give my first even lecture for the Archaeological Institute of America at Valparaiso University. The talk is titled Ten Years at an Ancient Harbor in Cyprus and will summarize the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project’s contribution to the Hellenistic and Late Roman period on Cyprus. To do this, as I described in an earlier… Read More →

As I am putting the final(ish) touches on the conclusion to a survey volume based on our work on the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project, I have a good excuse to catch up on reports from other little survey projects on the eastern part of the Cyprus. Yesterday, I read through P. L. Fall, S. Falconer, C.… Read More →

The past few years have seen an impressive gaggles of books and articles re-evaluating Iron Age Cyprus. To this number we should add Catherine Kearns’ recent contribution to the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology: “Building Social Boundaries at the Hybridizing First-Millenium B.C. Complex of Vouni (Cyprus)” JMA 24 (2011), 147-170. This article hit upon a few… Read More →

After reading M. Given and M. Hadjianastasis article on the Ottoman period in area studied by the Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project (TAESP), I ordered a copy of Y. Sarınay’s 2000 edition of the 1831 Ottoman census of the Cyprus (Osmanlı idaresinde Kıbrıs : nüfusu-arazi dağılımı ve Türk vakıfları (Istanbul 2000)) published along side a… Read More →

Each year I try to produce a newsletter for the various donors and “stakeholders” in the Cyprus Research Fund. The letter tells them a bit about the past year’s work, looks to the future, and thanks them for their support. Since all readers of the blog are – in some tiny way – stakeholders, I… Read More →

I was invited next year to contribute to the Archaeological Institute of America’s annual lecture program. To help local chapter of the AIA decide whether my lectures would fit their needs, drawn an audience, and interest their members, I was asked to offer a few abstract on talks that I could give. So I looked… Read More →

The coincidence between the archaeology of mining in Cyprus and my new (albeit small) research interest in the archaeology of work camps in western North Dakota is exciting. I spent the weekend reading some relatively recent publications from Bernard Knapp and his team who excavated the site of Politiko-Phorades in the eastern Troodos mountains of… Read More →