Scholar · Archaeologist
Kirsi O. Lorentz
fl. 2001–2024
Bioarchaeologist, STARC, The Cyprus Institute, active 2001–2024. Worked at Hala Sultan Tekke and Souskiou-Laona. Worked with Sorin Hermon; wrote with Peter M. Fischer and Lindy Crewe.
Life and work
- 2001–2004Co-author with Crewe, Peltenburg and Spanou of the preliminary report on the 2001-2004 investigations at the Chalcolithic cemetery of Souskiou-Laona (RDAC 2005).
SouskiouCrewe et al. 2005, pp. 41-67
- 2018–2020Led the Cyprus Institute team (personnel, osteology, anthropology, sampling procedures) that supported the reduced Swedish mission in 2020; with Robedizo, Eriksson and Lemmers co-authored the preliminary study of the human remains from Tomb RR (2018-2020 seasons); with Hermon and others co-authored the 3D documentation of Tomb RR and two Base Ring figurines found in 2020.
Hala Sultan TekkeFischer & Bürge 2021, p. 30 of doc, p. 39 of doc
Connections
10 peopleScholarship
- Wrote with Edgar J. Peltenburg2005
- Wrote with Lindy Crewe2005
- Wrote with S. Spanou2005
- Wrote with Peter M. Fischer2021–2024
- Wrote with Sila Kayalp2021
- Wrote with Silvia Florindi2021
- Wrote with Laura E. Alvarez2024
- Wrote with Rainer Feldbacher2024
- Wrote with Yuko Miyauchi2024
Colleagues & contacts
- Worked with Peter M. Fischer2020–2024
- Worked with Sorin Hermon2020
On Ancient Cyprus
1 pageSources
- 1.Peter M. Fischer, Teresa Bürge (2021). “The New Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2020 (The Söderberg Expedition): Excavations in the Cemetery of Hala Sultan Tekke”. Egypt and the Levant 31, 97-145. Online
- 2.Rainer Feldbacher, Laura E. Alvarez, Yuko Miyauchi, Kirsi Lorentz et al. (2024). “An Aegean Mirror from Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus”. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 43, 152-172.
- 3.Lindy Crewe, Kirsi Lorentz, Edgar Peltenburg, Sorina Spanou (2005). “Treatments of the Dead: Preliminary Report of Investigations at Souskiou-Laona Chalcolithic Cemetery, 2001-2004”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 41-67.
- 4.K. Lorentz (2016). “Real bones, real women, real lives: bioarchaeology and osteobiographies of women in ancient Cyprus”. Women in antiquity: real women across the ancient world, 349-360. London; New York, Routledge.
- 5.K. M. Lorentz (2016). “Challenges for funerary taphonomy viewed through prehistoric Cyprus”. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 10, 757-768.
- 6.K. O. Lorentz (2014). “Bodies transformed: negotiations of identity in Chalcolithic Cyprus”. European Journal of Archaeology 17, 229-247.
- 7.Human remains under the microscope of .... Online