James R. Carpenter

James R. Carpenter of Kent State University directed the American excavations at Episkopi-Phaneromeni near Limassol, a Bronze Age settlement and cemetery that Saul Weinberg had probed in 1955. In 1972 the Bulletin de correspondance hellénique described him as professor of archaeology at Kent State, working with Giroux of the Université Laval on a survey of Bronze Age sites around Soloi³. Davis lists him at Kalokhorio-Khalandrikos for Kent State in 1973-74⁸.

The first Phaneromeni season, in 1975, was sponsored by Kent State and the National Geographic Society and found a late Middle Cypriot settlement and Early to Middle Cypriot tombs^1,4. In 1976 the dig produced a Late Cypriot IA settlement and two Middle Cypriot II-III tombs; the Bulletin names Kent State and the National Endowment for the Humanities as sponsors that year⁵. The third season, in 1977, worked Sector A and reached the northern, eastern and southern limits of the settlement⁶. In 1978 the team, drawn from the United States, Britain and Australia, opened Sector J beside the Limassol-Paphos road, where the Middle Cypriot tombs had been robbed, and Stuart Swiny and Kent State students surveyed the surrounding region; the sponsors were Kent State, the Endowment and the Cleveland Foundation, and the Bulletin calls Carpenter associate professor⁷. Davis lists Carpenter and Swiny together as excavators for 1975 to 1978⁸. A study season followed in 1979⁷.

Carpenter published "Excavations at Phaneromeni: 1975-1978" in 1981, in a volume edited by Biers and Soren¹⁰.