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Scholar · Archaeologist

Alexander Wasse

fl. 2001–2023

Prehistorian who co-edited the 2004 volume Neolithic Revolution with Edgar Peltenburg and co-wrote the 2020 re-assessment of Kalavasos-Tenta with Joanne Clarke.

Biography

Alexander Wasse is a prehistorian whose work on Cyprus concerns the island's first farming communities. With Edgar J. Peltenburg he edited Neolithic Revolution (2004), papers from a conference held at Drousha on 20-23 September 2001 by the British Council for the Levant in collaboration with the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus2. He contributed a chapter on climate, economy and change in Cyprus and the Levant to Joanne T. Clarke's 2007 volume on Cyprus in the sixth to fourth millennia BC3. In 2020 he and Clarke published a re-assessment of Kalavasos-Tenta, the Aceramic Neolithic site excavated by Ian A. Todd. They concluded that the Neolithic of Cyprus was founded by Levantine communities rooted in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A1. His institution and role are not recorded.

Life and work

  1. September 2001
    CBRL conference at Drousha (Cyprus), 20-23 Sept 2001, in collaboration with the Department of Antiquities, whose papers he co-edited with Peltenburg.

    DroushaPeltenburg & Wasse 2004

  2. 2004
    Co-edited Neolithic Revolution (Levant Supplementary Series 1, Oxbow) with Edgar Peltenburg.

    Peltenburg & Wasse 2004

  3. 2007
    Contributed 'Climate, Economy and Change: Cyprus and the Levant During the Late Pleistocene - Mid Holocene' (pp. 43-63) to Clarke (ed.), On the Margins of Southwest Asia; co-author credited in Counts 2011's list.

    Clarke et al. 2007

  4. 2020
    With Joanne Clarke, re-assessed Kalavasos-Tenta (excavated by Ian Todd), arguing for a Levantine PPNA root of Cypriot Neolithic and citing Tenta's communal buildings.

    KalavasosClarke & Wasse 2019

Connections

4 people
Ian A. ToddEdgar J. PeltenburgCarole McCartneyJoanne ClarkeAlexander Wasse
Scholarship

Scholarship

Sources

  1. 1.J. Clarke, A. Wasse (2019). “Time out of joint: A re-assessment of the Cypriot Aceramic Neolithic site of Kalavasos-Tenta and its regional implications”. Levant 51. Online
  2. 2.E. Peltenburg (ed.), A. Wasse (ed.) (2004). Neolithic Revolution: New Perspectives on Southwest Asia in Light of Recent Discoveries on Cyprus. Oxford, Oxbow Books.
  3. 3.J. Clarke (ed.), C. McCartney (ed.), A. Wasse (ed.) (2007). On the Margins of Southwest Asia: Cyprus during the 6th to 4th Millennia BC. Oxford, Oxbow.