Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Excavator · Scholar

Karin Niklasson

fl. 1982–1999 · Sweden

Swedish excavator and scholar, active 1982–1999. Excavated at Hala Sultan Tekke and Lemba. Excavated with Paul Åström.

Life and work

  1. 1982
    Excavation at the Late Bronze Age port town west of the Hala Sultan Tekke mosque, 'dirigée par P. Åström et Karin Niklasson de l'Université de Göteborg'.

    Hala Sultan TekkeKarageorghis 1983

  2. 1983
    Thirteenth campaign of the Swedish mission at Hala Sultan Tekke, directed by P. Åström and K. Niklasson: ashlar walls, storerooms with Canaanite jars, a main street, a Trojan import fragment and a crater with double axe and hippocamps.

    Hala Sultan TekkeKarageorghis 1984

  3. 1985
    Co-author, with E. Jdou(?), R. Engelmark and B. Wennberg, of 'The Tremithos Valley Project', Acts of the Second International Congress of Cypriot Studies (Nikosia), listed in Counts 2011.

    Tremithos valleyToumazou et al. 2011

  4. 1991
    Published Early Prehistoric Burials in Cyprus (Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 46, Jonsered: Åström), cited by Counts 2011 among the large studies of Neolithic to Iron Age mortuary practice.

    JonseredToumazou et al. 2011

Connections

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Fieldwork & employment

Colleagues & contacts

On Ancient Cyprus

1 page

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1983). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1982”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 107.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1984). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1983”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 108.
  3. 3.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.
  4. 4.K. Niklasson (1991). Early Prehistoric Burials in Cyprus. Jonsered, Paul Åströms Förlag.
  5. 5.K. H. Niklasson (ed.) (1999). Cypriote Archaeology in Göteborg. Jonsered.
  6. 6.E. Jdou, R. Engelmark, K. Niklasson, B. Wennberg (1985). “The Tremithos Valley Project”. Acts of the Second International Congress of Cypriot Studies, 369-371. Nicosia, Society of Cypriot Studies.
  7. 7.Christine Winkelmann (2020). The Neolithic and Chalcolithic Figurines of Cyprus. Münster, Zaphon.