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Expedition member · Scholar

Jeffrey H. Schwartz

fl. 1971–1989

Expedition member and scholar, active 1971–1989. Excavated at Idalion and Dhali-Agridhi. Worked with Yechiel M. Lehavy and Vassos Karageorghis.

Life and work

  1. 1971
    Member of the American Expedition to Idalion from the 1971 pilot season; the 1974 report calls him an energetic member of the dig in both seasons (1971 and 1972).

    IdalionStager et al. 1974

  2. 1971
    Summer 1971 analysis of Late Bronze Age skulls from Kition, Hala Sultan Tekke, Akhera and Pendayia (in press in 1974), and from Toumba tou Skourou and Engomi (submitted to Science).

    CyprusStager et al. 1974

  3. 1972
    As the Expedition's zoologist he made the preliminary field identification of the faunal remains from the aceramic Neolithic deposit at Dhali-Agridhi (goat, sheep, pig, roe deer, red deer, Persian fallow deer, wild ass, gazelle).

    Dhali-AgridhiStager et al. 1974

  4. 1973
    Published 'The Palaeozoology of Cyprus: a preliminary report on recently analysed sites', World Archaeology 5(2), 215-220.

    Toumazou et al. 2011Dissinger 2017

  5. 1974
    Contributed the skeletal study to Karageorghis, Excavations at Kition I: The Tombs (1974); Coldstream's 1977 JHS review credits him with Appendix IV, noting the flattened tops of the female skulls.

    KitionColdstream 1977Karageorghis 1976

  6. 1974
    Wrote Part 2 (Faunal List) of the Dhali-Agridhi excavation report and Chapter V, 'The Paleo-Osteology of Cyprus', in the first preliminary report of the American Expedition to Idalion.

    Dhali-AgridhiStager et al. 1974

  7. 1989
    A later faunal report in the 1973-1980 volume says the 1972 material behind Schwartz's identifications was not then accessible, and that the author found no evidence for roe deer, gazelle or Equus at Dhali-Agridhi; presence of red deer left open.

    Dhali-AgridhiStager & Walker 1989

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Sources

  1. 1.L. E. Stager (ed.), A. Walker (ed.), G. E. Wright (ed.) (1974). American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus: First Preliminary Report, Seasons of 1971 and 1972. American Schools of Oriental Research.
  2. 2.Lawrence E. Stager (ed.), Anne M. Walker (ed.) (1989). American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus, 1973-1980. Chicago, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.
  3. 3.V. Karageorghis (1976). Kition: Mycenaean and Phoenician Discoveries in Cyprus. London, Thames and Hudson.
  4. 4.J. N. Coldstream (1977). “Reviews of Karageorghis, Excavations at Kition I: The Tombs (1974); Kition: Mycenaean and Phoenician Discoveries in Cyprus (1976); Alaas: A Protogeometric Necropolis in Cyprus (1975)”. Journal of Hellenic Studies 97.
  5. 5.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.
  6. 6.Alicia Marie Dissinger (2017). “Cypro-Archaic Bird Iconography: Types, Uses, and Meanings”. University of Virginia.
  7. 7.J. H. Schwartz (1973). “The Palaeozoology of Cyprus: A Preliminary Report on Recently Analyzed Sites”. World Archaeology 5, 215-220.
  8. 8.Jeffrey H. Schwartz (1974). “Faunal List (Part 2) and The Paleo-Osteology of Cyprus”. American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus: First Preliminary Report, Seasons of 1971 and 1972, 103-.