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Göte Östlund

fl. 1959–1961 · Sweden

Active 1959–1961.

Life and work

  1. 1959
    Carried out Carbon-14 tests on charcoal from Khirokitia; for the pre-ceramic stage the date came out round the middle of the sixth millennium B.C.

    StockholmDikaios 1962Karageorghis 1960

  2. 1961
    Per Dikaios, Östlund's tests gave the Khirokitia pre-ceramic layers (not the earliest) an average of 5675±100 B.C. and Sotira Phase I 3500±130 B.C., Phase III 3190±130 B.C., confirming Dikaios's archaeological dating (3400-3200 B.C.) of the Sotira culture

    Dikaios 1961, p. 229-230

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Sources

  1. 1.P. Dikaios (1962). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1959-61”. Archaeological Reports 8, 32-46. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. Online
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1960). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1959”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 84.
  3. 3.P. Dikaios (1961). Sotira. Philadelphia, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.