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Archaeologist · Scholar

David A. Sewell

fl. 1990–2019

Archaeologist and scholar, active 1990–2019. Excavated at Maroni valley, Maroni-Tsaroukkas (underwater survey) and Zygi-Petrini. Wrote with Sturt W. Manning and Roberta Tomber.

Life and work

  1. 1990–1997
    Co-author of the report on survey and salvage excavations of the Late Roman church at Maroni Petrera and other Roman remains in the lower Maroni valley, with S. W. Manning, A. Manning, R. Tomber, S. J. Monks and others, published by the A. G. Leventis Foundation in 2002.

    MaroniManning et al. 2002, p. 1

  2. 2000
    Co-author (with Manning, Monks, Demesticha) of RDAC 2000 article on Late Roman Type 1a amphora production at Zygi-Petrini.

    ZygiStewart et al. 2014

  3. 2002
    Co-author (with Manning and Herscher) of the ABSA article on Late Cypriot IA maritime trade, Maroni Tsaroukkas underwater survey.

    MaroniGiven 2025

  4. 2006
    Co-author of the report on the EENC 2006 field season (Agia Varvara-Asprokremnos excavation and survey of the early Holocene landscape), RDAC 2007, with McCartney, Manning and Stewart.

    Ayia VarvaraToumazou et al. 2011

Connections

7 people
Sturt W. ManningCarole McCartneyEllen HerscherStella DemestichaSarah J. MonksRoberta TomberG. AndreouDavid A. Sewell
Scholarship

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Sturt W. Manning, Andrew Manning, Roberta Tomber, David A. Sewell et al. (2002). The Late Roman Church at Maroni Petrera: Survey and salvage excavations 1990-1997, and other traces of Roman remains in the lower Maroni Valley, Cyprus. Nicosia, A. G. Leventis Foundation.
  2. 2.Becoming Urban: Investigating the Anatomy (contributor notes).
  3. 3.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.
  4. 4.S. W. Manning, D. Sewell, E. Herscher (2002). “Late Cypriot IA maritime trade in action: Underwater survey at Maroni Tsaroukkas and the contemporary east Mediterranean trading system”. Annual of the British School at Athens 97, 97-162.
  5. 5.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.
  6. 6.S. W. Manning, S. Monks, D. Sewell, S. Demesticha (2000). “Late Roman Type 1a Amphora Production at the Late Roman Site of Zygi-Petrini, Cyprus”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 233-257.
  7. 7.C. McCartney, S. W. Manning, D. Sewell, S. T. Stewart (2007). “The EENC 2006 Field Season: Excavations at Agia Varvara-Asprokremnos and Survey of the Local Early Holocene Landscape”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 27-44.
  8. 8.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.