Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Scholar

N. G. Gejvall

fl. 1952–1966 · Sweden

Physical anthropologist, active 1952–1966. Worked with George H. McFadden.

Life and work

  1. 1952–1954
    Examined the cremated remains from the bronze urn (no. 11) of Kaloriziki Tomb 40: ten skull pieces of a person aged 50-70, almost certainly a woman, plus the caput humeri, other human bones and six fragments of worked animal bone or ivory

    KourionMcFadden & Sjöqvist 1954

  2. 1966
    Cited as author of 'Osteological investigation of human and animal bones from Kalopsidha', Appendix IV in P. Åström, Excavations at Kalopsidha and Ayios Iakovos in Cyprus

    Morris 1985

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Sources

  1. 1.George H. McFadden, Erik Sjöqvist (1954). “A Late Cypriote III Tomb from Kourion Kaloriziki No. 40”. American Journal of Archaeology 58, 131-142. Archaeological Institute of America. Online
  2. 2.Desmond Morris (1985). The Art of Ancient Cyprus, with a check-list of the author's collection. Oxford, Phaidon Press in association with Jonathan Cape.
  3. 3.N. Gejvall (1966). “Osteological investigation of human and animal bones from Kalopsidha”. Excavations at Kalopsidha and Ayios Iakovos in Cyprus.