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Scholar · Expedition member

John Gifford

fl. 1975–1985

Scholar and expedition member, active 1975–1985. Worked at Larnaca region (Kition and Hala Sultan Tekke coast), Kition and Sotira-Kaminoudhia. Worked with Stuart Swiny and George Rapp.

Life and work

  1. 1975
    With George Rapp directed the University of Minnesota's first campaign on the south-east coast: soil samples from trenches in eighteen localities around Kition, Hala Sultan Tekke and the salt lakes, in collaboration with the Cyprus Geological Survey and Department of Antiquities, to test whether silting of a lagoon (now the salt lake) caused Hala Sultan Tekke's abandonment and the building of an artificial harbour at Kition. A second campaign was planned for summer 1976.

    LarnacaKarageorghis 1976

  2. 1983
    Archaeological and geological reconnaissance carried out with S. Held alongside the second excavation season at Sotira-Kaminoudhia (Philia culture), directed by S. Swiny; the research project was directed by G. Rapp and sponsored by CAARI.

    SotiraKarageorghis 1984

  3. 1985
    Co-edited with George Rapp Jr., Archaeological Geology (New Haven, 1985), a general work cited in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East; the identification with this J. Gifford is by name and field only.

    New HavenMeyers 1997

Connections

3 people
Stuart SwinySteve HeldGeorge RappJohn Gifford
Colleagues

Colleagues & contacts

On Ancient Cyprus

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Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1976). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1975”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 100.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1984). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1983”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 108.
  3. 3.Eric M. Meyers (ed.) (1997). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. New York, Oxford University Press.
  4. 4.G. Rapp Jr. (ed.), J. A. Gifford (ed.) (1985). Archaeological Geology. New Haven.