Expedition
Danish Akamas Project
Cyprus
Expedition; part of Aarhus University. 6 people in the register connected with it.
History
- 1989–1991Three seasons of survey and excavation near the two chapels of Ayios Kononos on the Akamas peninsula under Hans Erik Mathiesen and Jane Fejfer, studying a small community in a marginal area in the Roman and Early Byzantine periods. Finds: a Late Roman house (villa rustica, 4th c., dated by a coin of Constans), slag, a three-aisled basilica (late 6th c.), Byzantine houses abandoned in the 7th-8th c.
Akamas, Ayios KononosHans Erik MathiesenJane FejferHerscher 1995, p. 288-289Steel 1997-1998
- 1989–1993Survey of about 15 sq km around Ayios Kononos directed by Peter Hayes: more than 200 rock-cut tombs (mostly Hellenistic and Roman), at least three mid-to-late Chalcolithic settlements, some Archaic pottery, dense Late Roman-Middle Byzantine settlement.
- 1990Study of ancient road systems of NW Cyprus: a well-engineered road linking the western Akamas, Cape Yeronisos and Cape Lara with the Cape Drepanon area, probably Roman or Early Byzantine. The survey is attributed to Tonnes Bekker-Nielsen and others.
Western AkamasTønnes Bekker-NielsenHerscher 1995, p. 289Steel 1997-1998
- 1991Underwater survey and mapping at Ioni, the anchorage of Ayios Kononos, by John R. Leonard.
- 1995Ancient Akamas I, Settlement and Environment (Aarhus University Press), cited in a later bibliography (author spelt Feifer J.); Fejfer and Hayes published a paper on the abandonment of sites in 7th-century Cyprus in the same year.
People
6 peopleStaff and members · 6
- Peter Hayesfield-director (1989–1993) · director of the Akamas surveyHerscher 1995, p. 2891989
- Hans Erik Mathiesendirector (1989–1991)Herscher 1995, p. 288
- Jane Fejferdirector (1989–1991)Herscher 1995, p. 288
- John R. Leonardspecialist (from 1991)Herscher 1995, p. 289
- John R. Leonardother (1991–1991)Herscher 1995, p. 289
- Tønnes Bekker-Nielsenspecialist (from 1990)Herscher 1995, p. 289
Sources
- 1.Ellen Herscher (1995). “Archaeology in Cyprus”. American Journal of Archaeology 99, 257-294.
- 2.Louise Steel (1997-1998). “Archaeology in Cyprus 1987-1997”. Archaeological Reports 44, 137-149.
- 3.C. A. Stewart (ed.), T. W. Davis (ed.), A. Weyl Carr (ed.) (2014). Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion. CAARI / ASOR.