Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Scholar · Cataloguer · Expedition member

Carolyn Elliott

fl. 1979–1992

Scholar and cataloguer, active 1979–1992. Worked at Lemba-Lakkous, Kissonerga-Mylouthkia and Kissonerga-Mosphilia. Worked with Maria Iacovou; wrote with Vassos Karageorghis and Demetra Papanikola-Bakirtzi.

Life and work

  1. 1981
    Published 'Observations on ground stone adzes and axes from Lemba Lakkous', RDAC 1981, 1-23.

    LembaKarageorghis 1983

  2. 1983
    Published 'Kissonerga Mylouthkia: an outline of the ground stone industry', Levant 15, 11-37.

    KissonergaKarageorghis 1983

  3. 1983
    Listed as co-author (Peltenburg, Croft, Stewart, Woodhead, Elliott, Philip) of 'The Prehistory of West Cyprus: Ktima Lowlands Investigations 1979-1982', RDAC 1983, 9-55.

    Paphos districtToumazou et al. 2011

  4. 1983
    Edited Karageorghis's Palaepaphos-Skales report, examined the whole text critically (with Maria Iacovou) and wrote the appendix 'Stone objects from Palaepaphos-Skales' (rock identifications by Dr C. Xenophontos of the Geological Survey Department).

    NicosiaKarageorghis 1983

  5. 1984
    Edited the text of Maier and Karageorghis, Paphos: History and Archaeology.

    NicosiaMaier & Karageorghis 1984

  6. 1985
    Named as collaborator on the title page of Ancient Cypriote Art in the Pierides Foundation Museum (Karageorghis, with Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou, Bakirtzi and Elliott); also author of 'The Ground Stone Industry' in Peltenburg's Excavations at Lemba-Lakkous 1976-1983.

    LarnacaKarageorghis et al. 1985Hardy 2014Şevketoğlu 1998

  7. 1991
    Published 'Rock Sources of Ground Stone Tools of the Chalcolithic Period in Cyprus', BASOR 232(3), 95-106 as cited by Sevketoglu (volume as printed there).

    Şevketoğlu 1998

Connections

7 people
Vassos KarageorghisJohn WalshDemetra Papanikola-Bakirt…C. XenophontosEuphrosyne Rizopoulou-Ego…Edgar J. PeltenburgMaria IacovouCarolyn Elliott
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Sources

  1. 1.C. Elliott (1981). “Observations on ground stone adzes and axes from Lemba Lakkous”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 1-23.
  2. 2.C. Elliott (1983). “Kissonerga Mylouthkia: an outline of the ground stone industry”. Levant 15, 11-37.
  3. 3.C. Elliott (1985). “The Ground Stone Industry”. Excavations at Lemba-Lakkous 1976-1983, 70-93.
  4. 4.C. Elliott (1987). “A Tool Cache”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 7-10.
  5. 5.C. Elliott (1991). “Rock Sources of Ground Stone Tools of the Chalcolithic Period in Cyprus”. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 95-106.
  6. 6.Carolyn Elliott (1983). “Stone objects from Palaepaphos-Skales”. Palaepaphos-Skales: An Iron Age Cemetery in Cyprus. Konstanz.
  7. 7.V. Karageorghis (1983). Palaepaphos-Skales: An Iron Age Cemetery in Cyprus.
  8. 8.F. G. Maier, V. Karageorghis (1984). Paphos: History and Archaeology. 383 pp.. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  9. 9.V. Karageorghis, F. Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou, D. Papanikola-Bakirtzis, C. Elliott (1985). Ancient Cypriote Art in the Pierides Foundation Museum.
  10. 10.Samuel Andrew Hardy (2014). “Using Open-Source Data to Identify Participation in the Illicit Antiquities Trade: A Case Study on the Cypriot Civil War”. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research 20. Online
  11. 11.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.
  12. 12.Müge Hüseyin Şevketoğlu (1998). “Archaeological Field Survey of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Settlement Sites in Kyrenia District, North Cyprus: Systematic Surface Collection and the Interpretation of Artefact Scatters”. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
  13. 13.Christine Winkelmann (2020). The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Figurines of Cyprus. Münster, Zaphon.