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Douglas Baird

fl. 1982–2005

Prehistorian who surveyed western Cyprus for the Lemba Archaeological Project in the 1980s and later wrote the pottery chapter for the Kalavasos-Ayious publication.

Biography

The survey reports of the Lemba Archaeological Project in western Cyprus carry the name D. Baird, and the Ceramics chapter of the Kalavasos-Ayious volume was written by Douglas Baird. Archaeology in Cyprus 1981-85 records that members of the Lemba project surveyed at Drousha, Peyia and the Stavros tis Psokas valley1. D. Baird reported on the Peyia village territory in 1983 in the Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus for 19854. In 1991 he published a flexible classification of Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic pottery in Cypriot Ceramics: Reading the Prehistoric Record5.

Winkelmann calls him the ceramicist working on the material from Kalavasos-Ayious3. He wrote the Ceramics chapter of the 2004 Ayious volume in the Vasilikos Valley Project series6, and in 2005 he was the first-named of five authors of the Artifacts chapter in the volume on Kalavasos-Tenta edited by Ian A. Todd7. His dates of birth and death are not recorded.

Life and work

  1. 1982
    Survey in the Dhrousha area for the Lemba Archaeological Project, reported as Appendix II to Peltenburg's 1982 preliminary report (Levant 16, 1984, 63-65).

    DhroushaSymons 1986-1987Şevketoğlu 1998

  2. 1983
    Survey of the Peyia village territory, Paphos, published as D. Baird 1985, RDAC 340-349; Archaeology in Cyprus 1981-85 notes it as work of members of the Lemba project.

    PeyiaSymons 1986-1987Şevketoğlu 1998

  3. 1985
    Survey in the valley of Stavros tis Psokas, reported in Excavations at Kissonerga-Mosphilia 1986 (RDAC 1987, 15-18); Baird is listed among the authors of that excavation report.

    Stavros tis PsokasŞevketoğlu 1998

  4. 1991
    'Independent Variables? A Flexible Classification of Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic Pottery' (in Barlow et al. eds, Cypriot Ceramics: Reading the Prehistoric Record, pp. 21-27).

    Şevketoğlu 1998

  5. 2004
    Wrote the 'Ceramics' chapter (pp. 120-179) of Todd/Croft, Vasilikos Valley Project 8: Excavations at Kalavasos-Ayious (SIMA 71:8).

    Winkelmann 2020

  6. 2005
    Co-authored the 'Artifacts' chapter (pp. 18-322) of Todd, Vasilikos Valley Project: Excavations at Kalavasos-Tenta Vol. II (SIMA 71:7) with Carole McCartney, Murray C. McClellan, Alison South and Ian A. Todd.

    Winkelmann 2020

Connections

5 people
Carole McCartneyAlison K. SouthMurray McClellanIan A. ToddEdgar J. PeltenburgDouglas Baird
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Sources

  1. 1.D. J. Symons (1986-1987). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1981-85”. Archaeological Reports 33, 62-77.
  2. 2.Müge Hüseyin Şevketoğlu (1998). “Archaeological Field Survey of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Settlement Sites in Kyrenia District, North Cyprus: Systematic Surface Collection and the Interpretation of Artefact Scatters”. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
  3. 3.Christine Winkelmann (2020). The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Figurines of Cyprus. Münster, Zaphon.
  4. 4.D. Baird (1985). “Survey in Peyia Village Territory, Paphos, 1983”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 340-349.
  5. 5.D. Baird (1991). “Independent Variables? A Flexible Classification of Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic Pottery”. Cypriot Ceramics: Reading the Prehistoric Record, 21-27.
  6. 6.Douglas Baird (2004). “Ceramics”. Vasilikos Valley Project 8: Excavations at Kalavasos-Ayious, 120-179. Sävedalen, Paul Åströms Förlag.
  7. 7.Douglas Baird, Carole McCartney, Murray C. McClellan, Alison South et al. (2005). “Artifacts”. Vasilikos Valley Project. Excavations at Kalavasos-Tenta, Vol. II, 18-322. Sävedalen.