Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Archaeologist · Expedition member

Jerald J. Johnson

fl. 1979–1983

Associate Professor of Anthropology, active 1979–1983. Excavated at Vasilikos Valley and Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios. Excavated with Larissa Hordynsky; worked with Ian A. Todd.

Life and work

  1. 1979
    Joined the Vasilikos Valley Project; led, with L. Hordynsky, the field survey team (transect sampling design; drew the sketch map of known sites).

    Vasilikos valleyTodd 1982

  2. 1979
    Directed, with L. Hordynsky, the excavation of square R 14 at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios (walls forming a street and storerooms; Late Cypriot pithoi, White Slip, Base Ring, imported Canaanite jar, LH IIIB Mycenaean).

    KalavasosTodd 1982

  3. 1979
    Did preliminary aging of human skeletal material from the project (footnote 41).

    Todd 1982

  4. 1982
    Co-wrote, with L. Hordynsky, the field-survey section of the Fourth Preliminary Report.

    Todd 1982

  5. 1983
    Hordynsky and Johnson, 'Systematic Survey in the Vasilikos Valley, Cyprus' (Archaeological Survey in the Mediterranean Area, 331-334).

    Şevketoğlu 1998

Connections

2 people

Fieldwork & employment

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Ian A. Todd (1982). “Vasilikos Valley Project: Fourth Preliminary Report, 1979-1980”. Journal of Field Archaeology 9, 35-77. Online
  2. 2.Müge Hüseyin Şevketoğlu (1998). “Archaeological Field Survey of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Settlement Sites in Kyrenia District, North Cyprus: Systematic Surface Collection and the Interpretation of Artefact Scatters”. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
  3. 3.L. S. Hordynsky, J. J. Johnson (1983). “Systematic Survey in the Vasilikos Valley, Cyprus”. Archaeological Survey in the Mediterranean Area, 331-334.