Museum staff · Scholar
Kristian Göransson
fl. 2009–2025 · Sweden
Swedish museum staff member and scholar, active 2009–2025.
Life and work
- 2009Co-editor, with K. Slej and S. Haggman, of Finds and Results from the Swedish Cyprus Expedition 1927-1931: A Gender Perspective (Medelhavsmuseet, Focus on the Mediterranean 5), as cited in the Ayia Irini winter-excavation bibliography.
StockholmHouby-Nielsen 2016
- 2012Published 'The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, the Cyprus collections in Stockholm and the Swedish excavations after the SCE', Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes 42, 399-421.
- 2012Thanked, with Frederik Helander and Ove Kaneberg of the Medelhavsmuseet, for help with Swedish Cyprus Expedition photographs for the City of Gold exhibition and publication (Princeton).
StockholmChilds et al. 2012
- 2025Contributor of a chapter on national press coverage of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition (chapter 19 in the contents list) to the Empire & Excavation volume.
On Ancient Cyprus
2 pagesSources
- 1.W. A. P. Childs (ed.), J. S. Smith (ed.), J. M. Padgett (ed.) (2012). City of Gold: The Archaeology of Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus. Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum.
- 2.S. Houby-Nielsen (2016). “Excavations at Ayia Irini in the winter of 1929: tricky Phoenicians and Biblical floods”. Ancient Cyprus Today: Museum Collections and New Research, 105-117. Uppsala.
- 3.Michael Given (2025). “Over the landscape, in the landscape? Knowledge and agency in Cypriot archaeology, 1870-1910”. Empire & Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960. Leiden, Sidestone Press.
- 4.Matthias Recke (2012). “Deutschland und das antike Zypern. Beiträge zur Geschichte einer archäologischen Disziplin”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42.