Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Archaeologist · Excavator

Dimitris Kyriakou

fl. 2009–2022 · Cyprus

Teacher, active 2009–2022. Excavated at Vretsia-Roudias. Excavated with Nikos Efstratiou; wrote with Carole McCartney and Panagiotis Karkanas.

Life and work

  1. November 2009
    Member of a small Aristotle University of Thessaloniki team led by Nikos Efstratiou that returned to Roudias (south foothills of the Troodos, 470 m, Paphos district) under licence from the Department of Antiquities and consent of the Forestry Department; other members were the students Eleni Mloukie, Yiannis Voskos and Elli Tzanne.

    Vretsia-RoudiasAntiquities 2010, p. 73

  2. 2012–2018
    Co-author with Efstratiou, McCartney and Karkanas of the Roudias season reports in the Report of the Department of Antiquities: 2010 report (published 2012), second season (2010), and third season (2011; RDAC n.s. 1, 2018).

    Vretsia-RoudiasVoskos et al. 2023, p. 24Simmons 2014Given 2025

  3. 2022
    With Efstratiou, cited as authors of a study of the diachronic occupation of Ayios Ioannis/Vretsia Roudias (Epipalaeolithic seasonal-to-permanent habitation; Late Aceramic Neolithic Upper Roudias) in the Voskos et al. volume.

    Vretsia-RoudiasVoskos et al. 2023, p. 10

Connections

3 people
Nikos EfstratiouCarole McCartneyPanagiotis KarkanasDimitris Kyriakou
FieldworkScholarship

Fieldwork & employment

Scholarship

Sources

  1. 1.Department of Antiquities, Cyprus (2010). Annual Report of the Department of Antiquities for the year 2009. Nicosia, Department of Antiquities.
  2. 2.Ioannis Voskos (ed.), Dimitris Kloukinas (ed.), Eleni Mantzourani (ed.) (2023). Prehistoric Lifeways in Cyprus from the Early Holocene to the Middle Bronze Age. Nicosia, Astrom Editions.
  3. 3.Alan H. Simmons (2014). Stone Age Sailors: Paleolithic Seafaring in the Mediterranean. Walnut Creek, Left Coast Press.
  4. 4.N. Efstratiou, C. McCartney, P. Karkanas, D. Kyriakou (2012). “An upland early site in the Troodos Mountains”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 2010, 1-26.
  5. 5.N. Efstratiou, C. McCartney, P. Karkanas, D. Kyriakou (2017). “The early camp site of Agios Ioannis-Roudias in upland Troodos: the second season of fieldwork (2010)”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus 2011-2012, 61-110.
  6. 6.N. Efstratiou, C. McCartney, P. Karkanas, D. Kyriakou (2018). “The Late Epi-palaeolithic camp site of Vretsia-Roudias in upland Troodos: the third season of fieldwork (2011)”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, New Series 1, 342-376.
  7. 7.N. Efstratiou, D. Kyriakou (2022). “Το αρχαιολογικό πρόγραμμα του ΑΠΘ στην Κύπρο. Η ανασκαφή της προϊστορικής θέσης Άγ. Ιωάννης/Βρέτσια Ρουδιάς στο Τζόδος”. Metioessa. Studies in Honor of Eleni Mantzourani, 307-315. Athens.
  8. 8.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.