Catherine Kearns

Catherine Kearns argued in 2011 that the fifth-century BC monumental complex at Vouni should not be read as a blueprint of ethnic style. In her article in the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology she proposed reading it through the social lives of its buildings and the chaîne opératoire of their construction¹. She was then at the Department of Classics at Cornell University¹.

She took her Ph.D. at Cornell in 2015⁸. Her dissertation was titled "Unruly Environments: The Making of a First-Millennium BCE Political Landscape on Cyprus"³. In 2013 she contributed a chapter on environmental thought in Cypriot archaeology to the volume for J.R.B. Stewart².

Survey in the Vasilikos and Maroni valleys

Her fieldwork was in the Vasilikos and Maroni valleys. A 2016 project note in Antiquity describes a re-survey and spatial analysis of landscape developments in the first millennium BC⁴. In it she thanks the Cyprus Fulbright Commission, Cornell's Society for the Humanities, Ian Todd, Alison South, Sturt Manning and the Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project, and records the support of the Department of Antiquities, the Geological Survey Department, the Cyprus University of Technology and the Cyprus Institute⁴.

In 2021 she and Anna Georgiadou published "Rural Complexities" in the Journal of Field Archaeology. It presents legacy data, re-survey, geophysical survey and pilot excavations at small Iron Age sites in the two valleys, on the eastern edge of the polity of Amathus⁸. The acknowledgments name the Department of Antiquities, the Geological Survey Department, the Department of Lands and Surveys, Anna Satraki, Todd and South, Manning, Thomas Urban, Georgia Andreou and the KAMBE team⁸. A later book on the Iron Age networks of the eastern Mediterranean cites the article when it discusses Kalavasos-Vounaritashi, which it says may show an Archaic-Classical building¹¹.

She is also one of the authors, with Manning and others, of the 2014 "Becoming Urban" article on Maroni in the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology⁸.

Books and posts

By 2019 she was Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago⁶. That year she and Manning co-edited New Directions in Cypriot Archaeology (Cornell University Press), in which her own chapter, "Discerning 'favorable' environments: Science, survey archaeology, and the Cypriot Iron Age", runs from page 266 to 294^6,7. Her paper on Amathus in its regional setting appeared in the volume in honour of A.B. Knapp, edited by Manning¹⁰. In 2018 she published an article on spatial imaginations of the eastern Mediterranean in the Transactions of the American Philological Association⁵.

Her monograph, The Rural Landscapes of Archaic Cyprus: An Archaeology of Environmental and Social Change, was published by Cambridge University Press⁹.