Expedition
Maroni Valley Archaeological Survey Project
Cyprus · founded 1990
Expedition, founded 1990. 4 people in the register connected with it.
History
- 1990–1997Intensive survey of the lower Maroni river valley (Larnaca district) led by Sturt W. Manning, working in association with Gerald Cadogan's Maroni Valley Project (active since 1981). Aims: systematic study of settlement, a regional setting for the Maroni-Vournes excavation, and a record before destruction by agriculture and development. Found scanty ceramic Neolithic, substantial Iron Age (late 8th-5th c. BC), Late Bronze Age and Late Roman remains.
Maroni valleySturt W. ManningGerald CadoganHerscher 1995Manning et al. 2002, p. 8Stewart et al. 2014
- 1992–1993Rescue excavation of a badly damaged 7th-century basilican church with outlying structures at Maroni-Petrera; finds include local Roman amphorae and cooking ware, glass, and coins of Heraclius (earliest AD 624/5) and Constans II (AD 643/4).
Maroni-PetreraSturt W. ManningHerscher 1995
- 1992Preliminary reports to the Department of Antiquities: 1990-91 seasons (Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 1992, pp. 271-83) and 1992-93 seasons (RDAC 1994, pp. 345-67, with M. J. Ponting).
People
4 peopleStaff and members · 3
- Roberta Tomberspecialist (1990–1997) · Roman ceramic specialistManning et al. 2002, p. 81990
- Andrew Manningfield-director (1993–1997) · supervisor/field-directorManning et al. 2002, p. 81993
- Gerald Cadogandirector (from 1981)Herscher 1995
Fieldwork · 1
- Sturt W. Manningfield-director (1990–1997)Herscher 1995
On Ancient Cyprus
1 page- MaroniSite
Sources
- 1.Ellen Herscher (1995). “Archaeology in Cyprus”. American Journal of Archaeology 99, 257-294.
- 2.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.
- 3.M. K. Toumazou (ed.), P. N. Kardulias (ed.), D. B. Counts (ed.) (2011). Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus.
- 4.Sturt W. Manning, Andrew Manning, Roberta Tomber, David A. Sewell et al. (2002). The Late Roman Church at Maroni Petrera: Survey and salvage excavations 1990-1997, and other traces of Roman remains in the lower Maroni Valley, Cyprus. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.