Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Archaeologist

Catherine Petit

fl. 1988–1996

Archaeologist, active 1988–1996. Worked at Amathus and its territory (to the Limassol Forest; Ayios Tychonas, Armenokhori, Parekklisha).

Life and work

  1. 1988–1991
    Surveyed the region of the kingdom of Amathus northward from the city site to the Limassol Forest on the southern side of the Troodos massif, including the area around Ayios Tychonas, Armenokhori and Parekklisha. About 150 sites were identified, with dense Neolithic (mostly ceramic 'Sotira Culture') occupation and activity from Cypro-Geometric to the seventh century AD; much of the Hadrianic water system supplying Amathus was traced; a Chalcolithic and Bronze Age lacuna was noted.

    Amathus region, LimassolHerscher 1995

  2. 1996
    Co-author, with P.-Y. Péchoux and Ch. Dieulafait, of 'Amathonte et son territoire à travers les ages', pp. 173-82 in the Guide d'Amathonte.

    Stewart et al. 2014

Connections

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Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Ellen Herscher (1995). “Archaeology in Cyprus”. American Journal of Archaeology 99, 257-294.
  2. 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. 3.C. Petit, P.-Y. Péchoux, Ch. Dieulafait (1996). “Amathonte et son territoire à travers les âges”. Guide d'Amathonte, 173-182.
  4. 4.Stuart Swiny (ed.) (2001). The Earliest Prehistory of Cyprus: From Colonization to Exploitation. Boston, American Schools of Oriental Research.