Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Archaeologist · Excavator

Jane Fejfer

fl. 1989–1995

Archaeologist and excavator, active 1989–1995. Excavated at Akamas, Ayios Kononos. Excavated with Hans Erik Mathiesen; worked with Peter Hayes.

Life and work

  1. 1989–1991
    Danish Akamas Project of the University of Aarhus, directed by Hans Erik Mathiesen and Jane Fejfer, surveyed and excavated near the two chapels of Ayios Kononos on the Akamas peninsula: a Late Roman villa rustica (4th c.), an Early to Middle Byzantine farmstead-turned-town (5th-6th c.) and a late 6th-century three-aisled basilica; abandoned c. AD 700-800.

    AkamasHerscher 1995, pp. 288-289

  2. 1991
    Fejfer and Mathiesen published 'The Danish Akamas-project. The first two seasons of work (1989 and 1990)' in RDAC 1991, 211-23.

    AkamasMetcalf 2009

  3. 1995
    Edited Ancient Akamas, vol. 1, Settlement and Environment (Aarhus University Press); with Mathiesen wrote 'The Site of Ayios Kononas' (pp. 73-86); with P. Hayes wrote 'Ancient Akamas and the Abandonment of Sites in 7th century A.D. Cyprus' (pp. 62-69 in P. Wallace (ed.), Visitors, Immigrants, and Invaders in Cyprus).

    AkamasIV 2014Toumazou et al. 2011

Connections

2 people

Fieldwork & employment

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Ellen Herscher (1995). “Archaeology in Cyprus”. American Journal of Archaeology 99, 257-294.
  2. 2.J. Fejfer (ed.) (1995). Ancient Akamas, vol. 1: Settlement and Environment. Aarhus University Press.
  3. 3.J. Fejfer, H. E. Mathiesen (1991). “The Danish Akamas-project. The first two seasons of work (1989 and 1990)”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 211-223.
  4. 4.D. M. Metcalf (2009). Byzantine Cyprus 491-1191. Nicosia, Cyprus Research Centre.
  5. 5.Benjamin Costello IV (2014). Architecture and Material Culture from the Earthquake House at Kourion, Cyprus. Oxford, Archaeopress.
  6. 6.M. K. Toumazou (ed.), P. N. Kardulias (ed.), D. B. Counts (ed.) (2011). Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus.