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THE CANADIAN PALAIPAPHOS SURVEY PROJECT: AN OVERVIEW OF THE 1982 AND 1983 SEASONS
The Canadian Palaipaphos Survey Project (hereafter CPSP) has been engaged in a regional archaeological survey in the Paphos District of south-western Cyprus (Fig. 1) since 1979.1 The study zone of the CPSP (Fig. 2) encompasses approximately 655 km2 within the drainages of the Ezousas, Xeros and Dhiarizos rivers. The chronological scope of the investigations spans the Aceramic Neolithic through Venetian periods ca. 6000 B.C. - A.D. 1571. In addition to identifying the patterns of settlement and resource exploitation in the study zone (Fig. 1), the CPSP is a multidisciplinary undertaking interested in collecting information relating to the past and present physical environment, in documenting the copper mining and smelting industries in the Lower Pillow Lava zone of the Troodos Mountains, in investigating the pre-historic and historic chipped and ground stone tool industries of the region by a variety of approaches, in locating the chert sources for the chipped stone artifacts recovered in the survey and in isolating the local and regional Iron Age pottery styles.
A short study and field season was held in August of 1982.2 Mr. William A. Fox3 undertook a number of investigations relating to the lithic artifacts, chert sources, metallurgical activities and ethnographic interviews of individuals who once made threshing sledges. Mr. Fox systematically collected lithic artifacts and bones from the Aceramic Neolithic site at Kritou Marottou-Ais Yiorkis (80-E-46) discovered in 1980 in order to study the lithic industries at this site.4 Mr. Cesare D'Annibale5 analyzed the use-wear patterns on the edges of the chipped stone tools from the site. Another Aceramic Neolithic site across the valley at Kannaviou-Kochina (80-E-38) was intensively resurveyed with equally impressive results.
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