Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Archaeologist · Excavator · Scholar

Darius Maliszewski

fl. 1992–2013

Archaeologist and excavator, active 1992–2013. Excavated at Polis-Pyrgos region (NW Cyprus survey area, Polis to Kato Pyrgos). Wrote with B. Walker and Nancy Serwint.

Life and work

  1. 1992
    Set up and directed the Polis-Pyrgos survey in NW Cyprus (Polis to Kato Pyrgos) to study human occupation and resource use from Neolithic to Medieval; over 50 sites identified (LN, Chalcolithic, EC; CG, CA, Roman, Byzantine, Medieval), plus LC occupation near Pelathousa.

    NW Cyprus (Polis to Kato Pyrgos)Steel 1997-1998, p. 148

  2. 1994
    Report series to the Department of Antiquities: 'Polis-Pyrgos Archaeological Project: Second Preliminary Report on the 1994 Survey Season in Northwestern Cyprus', Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 1995, pp. 311-316.

    NW CyprusToumazou et al. 2011

  3. 1997
    'Notes on the Bronze Age Settlement Patterns of Western Cyprus c. 2500-c. 1050 BC', RDAC 1997, pp. 65-84.

    Western CyprusStewart et al. 2014

  4. 1999
    'Polis-Pyrgos Archaeological Project. Fourth preliminary report', RDAC 1999, pp. 339-349.

    NW CyprusMetcalf 2009

  5. 2003
    Co-authored with N. Serwint, J. Smith and B. Walker 'Polis-Pyrgos Archaeological Project. Fifth Preliminary Report on the 1999-2001 Research Seasons in Northwestern Cyprus', Thetis 10, pp. 7-38.

    NW CyprusStewart et al. 2014

  6. 2013
    Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Pottery from the Field Survey in Northwestern Cyprus, 1992-1999 (Oxford, BAR Publishing, 2013); also cited as 'Polis-Pyrgos Archaeological Project 1', BAR IS 2547 (2013).

    OxfordCatling 2020Given 2025

Connections

3 people
Joanna S. SmithNancy SerwintB. WalkerDarius Maliszewski
Scholarship

Scholarship

Sources

  1. 1.Louise Steel (1997-1998). “Archaeology in Cyprus 1987-1997”. Archaeological Reports 44, 137-149.
  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.D. M. Metcalf (2009). Byzantine Cyprus 491-1191. Nicosia, Cyprus Research Centre.
  4. 4.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.
  5. 5.W. A. P. Childs (ed.), J. S. Smith (ed.), J. M. Padgett (ed.) (2012). City of Gold: The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus. Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum.
  6. 6.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
  7. 7.H. W. Catling (2020). Kouklia: Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Tombs at Palaepaphos 1951-1954. Oxford, BAR Publishing.
  8. 8.D. Maliszewski (1997). “Notes on the Bronze Age Settlement Patterns of Western Cyprus c. 2500-c. 1050 BC”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 65-84.
  9. 9.D. Maliszewski, N. Serwint, J. Smith, B. Walker (2003). “Polis-Pyrgos Archaeological Project. Fifth Preliminary Report on the 1999-2001 Research Seasons in Northwestern Cyprus”. Thetis. Mannheimer Beiträge zur klassischen Archäologie und Geschichte Griechenlands und Zyperns.
  10. 10.Dariusz Maliszewski (2013). Chalcolithic and Bronze Age Pottery from the Field Survey in Northwestern Cyprus, 1992-1999. Oxford, BAR Publishing.