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Ioannis Voskos
fl. 2008–2023
Athens-based scholar of prehistoric and Late Bronze Age Cyprus, co-author with A. Bernard Knapp of the 2008 paper rejecting a Mycenaean colonization of Cyprus.
Biography
Ioannis Voskos is co-author, with A. Bernard Knapp, of "Cyprus at the End of the Late Bronze Age: Crisis and Colonization or Continuity and Hybridization?", published in the American Journal of Archaeology in 2008. It argues that newcomers to Cyprus around 1200 to 1000 BCE were neither colonists nor conquerors, and that Cypriot, Aegean and Levantine trends combined in a new elite identity1. The Origins of the Cypriotes summarises their view as holding that the "Mycenaean colonization" was neither Mycenaean nor colonization, though some people with an Aegean cultural background probably arrived between the late 13th and the 11th century7.
His later work concerns the Neolithic and Chalcolithic. With Eleni Mantzourani he edited the 2019 publication of the moveable finds from the Neolithic settlement of Kantou-Kouphovounos5. With Efrossini Vika he reexamined human remains from Kantou, Erimi-Pamboula and Sotira-Teppes2. In 2023 he was lead author of a paper on foodways in the Kouris valley and co-edited, with Dimitris Kloukinas and Mantzourani, Prehistoric Lifeways in Cyprus from the Early Holocene to the Middle Bronze Age3,4.
Life and work
- 2008With A. B. Knapp, argues that the material culture of 12th-11th-century BCE Cyprus reflects an amalgamation of Cypriot, Aegean and Levantine trends and a new elite identity, and that the 'Mycenaean colonization' of Cyprus was neither Mycenaean nor colonization (the latter as summarised in The Origins of the Cypriotes, p. 24).
- 2019Co-edited with E. Mantzourani, The Excavation of the Neolithic Settlement of Kantou Kouphovounos in Cyprus, Part B: The Moveable Finds (2 vols, in Greek); also co-authored with Mantzourani a chapter on pottery technology and production in that volume.
- 2020With E. Vika, re-examines skeletal material from Ceramic Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites of the Limassol district (Kantou, Erimi, Sotira) for palaeopathology and, by carbon and nitrogen isotopes, diet, as part of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Cyprus Project (NCCP).
- 2023Co-edited Prehistoric Lifeways in Cyprus from the Early Holocene to the Middle Bronze Age (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 155, Astrom Editions, Nicosia) with D. Kloukinas and E. Mantzourani, and led the paper on foodways in the Kouris valley (5th-4th millennia cal BC) with six co-authors.
- 1 December 2023 – 3 December 2023Named among institutional supporters of the 20th Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology (PoCA) meeting at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, organised by Chara Theotokatou.
Connections
9 peopleScholarship
- Wrote with A. Bernard Knapp2008
- Wrote with Eleni Mantzourani2019–2023
- Wrote with Efrossini Vika2020–2023
- Wrote with Anastasios Georgotas2023
- Wrote with Antonia Marda-Stypsianou2023
- Wrote with Chara Theotokatou2023
- Wrote with Dimitris Kloukinas2023
- Wrote with Maria Roumpou2023
Colleagues & contacts
- Worked with Chara Theotokatou2023
- Worked with Giorgos Vavouranakis2023
On Ancient Cyprus
8 pages- A Cypriot Jar in the Mycenaean StyleArticle
- Ancient Cypriot Pottery: A Course from the First Pots to the Classical KingdomsArticle
- Bernard Knapp and the Cyprus He Keeps RewritingArticle
- The Island With No Dark Age: Maria Iacovou and the Kingdoms of CyprusArticle
- The Swedish Cyprus Expedition and What It Left BehindArticle
- Vassos Karageorghis (1929–2021): The Maker of Modern Cypriot ArchaeologyArticle
- From Bronze to Iron: Cypriot Pottery c. 1300–950 BCECompendium
- Proto-White Painted WareCompendium
Sources
- 1.Ioannis Voskos, A. Bernard Knapp (2008). “Cyprus at the End of the Late Bronze Age: Crisis and Colonization or Continuity and Hybridization?”. American Journal of Archaeology 112, 659-684. Online
- 2.Ioannis Voskos, Efrossini Vika (2020). “Prehistoric human remains reviewed: Palaeopathology and palaeodiet in Neolithic and Chalcolithic Cyprus, Limassol district”. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 29.
- 3.Ioannis Voskos, Dimitris Kloukinas, Anastasios Georgotas, Antonia Marda-Stypsianou et al. (2023). “Foodways in prehistoric Cyprus: a view from the Kouris valley during the 5th and 4th millennia cal BC”. Journal of Greek Archaeology 8, 21-.
- 4.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.
- 5.E. Mantzourani (ed.), I. Voskos (ed.) (2019). Η Ανασκαφή του Νεολιθικού Οικισμού Καντού Κουφόβουνος στην Κύπρο. Μέρος Β: Τα Κινητά Ευρήματα (The Excavation of the Neolithic Settlement of Kantou Kouphovounos in Cyprus. Part B: The Moveable Finds), 2 vols. Athens, AURA and Kardamitsa Publications.
- 6.Giorgos Vavouranakis (ed.), Ioannis Voskos (ed.) (2022). Metioessa: Studies in Honor of Eleni Mantzourani. Online
- 7.The Origins of the Cypriotes (with scientific ... ).
- 8. (2023). “Exploring pottery function in Neolithic ...”. Prehistoric Lifeways in Cyprus.
- 9. (2023). Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology (PoCA) 2023, 20th Meeting, Athens, 1-3 December 2023: programme.