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Archaeologist · Scholar

Margaret Morden

fl. 1992–1998

Archaeologist and scholar, active 1992–1998. Worked at Idalion. Excavated with Sarah Stewart; worked for University of Michigan.

Life and work

  1. 1992
    With P. Gaber, published the University of Arizona Expedition to Idalion report for 1992 (CCEC 18.2, pp. 20-26 per OEANE; Gaber cites pp. 21-30 for the 'Lang's Temple' steps), the expedition having found the steps of the complex called 'Lang's Temple' for 120 years.

    IdalionGaber 2008Meyers 1997

  2. 1995–1997
    Idalion Survey Project, directed by Margaret Morden (University of Michigan) and Sarah Stewart; two seasons, 1995 and 1997; aim to identify CA shrine and sanctuary sites first recorded by Ohnefalsch-Richter; also located local chert sources and correlated them with PR lithic assemblages and doukani industries (source cites RDAC 1998).

    IdalionSteel 1997-1998, p. 138

Connections

2 people

Fieldwork & employment

Scholarship

Sources

  1. 1.Louise Steel (1997-1998). “Archaeology in Cyprus 1987-1997”. Archaeological Reports 44, 137-149.
  2. 2.Pamela Gaber (2008). “The History of History: Excavations at Idalion and the Changing History of a City-Kingdom”. Near Eastern Archaeology 71. Online
  3. 3.P. Gaber, M. Morden (1992). “University of Arizona Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus 1992”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 18, 21-30.
  4. 4.Eric M. Meyers (ed.) (1997). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. New York, Oxford University Press.
  5. 5.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.