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Archaeologist · Excavator · Scholar

Gordon Thomas

Gordon D. Thomas

fl. 1986–2016 · United Kingdom

British archaeologist and excavator, active 1986–2016. Excavated at Maa-Palaeokastro, Kissonerga-Mosphilia and Kissonerga-Mylouthkia. Excavated with Vassos Karageorghis and Diane Bolger; worked for University of Edinburgh.

Life and work

  1. 1986
    Led a small University of Edinburgh team that worked with the Department of Antiquities (under V. Karageorghis) in the eighth and last campaign at Maa-Palaeokastro, a four-week season whose main aim was to study the Chalcolithic occupation of which earlier work had found traces.

    Maa-PalaeokastroKarageorghis 1987

  2. 1991
    Co-author with Edgar J. Peltenburg of 'The Context and Contents of the Ceremonial Area', in Lemba Archaeological Project II.2, A Ceremonial Area at Kissonerga (SIMA 70:3, Göteborg 1991), pp. 1-11.

    Winkelmann 2020

  3. 1997–1998
    Steel reports that, to the south of the three reconstructed Chalcolithic roundhouses of the Lemba Experimental Village (devised 1982 to study the relation between buildings, architectural technology and site formation, using evidence from Lemba-Lakkous, Kissonerga-Mylouthkia and Mosphilia), groups of smaller buildings, walls and pits form an ongoing experimental-archaeology project under Dr Gordon Thomas examining destruction, collapse and site formation.

    LembaSteel 1997-1998, p. 146

  4. 1998
    Co-author of two chapters in the Kissonerga-Mosphilia volumes of the Lemba Archaeological Project (II.1A, SIMA 70:2, with Peltenburg, Peters and Tipping, pp. 22-64; II.1B, with Miles and Peltenburg, 'Architecture and Stratigraphy', pp. 1-87).

    Winkelmann 2020

  5. 2003
    With Paul Croft, wrote 'The Pits and Other Negative Features' in Lemba Archaeological Project III.1, Kissonerga-Mylouthkia 1976-1996 (SIMA 70:4, 2003), pp. 107-116.

    Winkelmann 2020

Connections

5 people
Vassos KarageorghisDiane BolgerEdgar J. PeltenburgPaul CroftAnnie CaubetGordon Thomas
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Fieldwork & employment

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1987). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1986”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 111.
  2. 2.Louise Steel (1997-1998). “Archaeology in Cyprus 1987-1997”. Archaeological Reports 44, 137-149.
  3. 3.Christine Winkelmann (2020). The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Figurines of Cyprus. Münster, Zaphon.
  4. 4.E. J. Peltenburg, G. Thomas (1991). “The Context and Contents of the Ceremonial Area”. Lemba Archaeological Project II.2. A Ceremonial Area at Kissonerga, 1-11. Göteborg.
  5. 5.D. Miles, E. Peltenburg, G. Thomas (1998). “Architecture and Stratigraphy”. Lemba Archaeological Project II.1B. Excavations at Kissonerga-Mosphilia, 1979-1992, 1-87. Edinburgh.
  6. 6.E. Peltenburg, C. Peters, G. Thomas, R. Tipping (1998). “Structures and other Occupational Evidence from the Aceramic Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age”. Excavations at Kissonerga-Mosphilia, 1979-1992 (Lemba Archaeological Project II.1A).
  7. 7.P. Croft, G. Thomas (2003). “The Pits and Other Negative Features”. Lemba Archaeological Project III.1. The Colonisation and Settlement of Cyprus: Investigations at Kissonerga-Mylouthkia, 1976-1996, 107-116. Sävedalen, Åström.