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Scholar · Expedition member

Nathan K. Harper

fl. 1999–2011

Scholar and expedition member, active 1999–2011. Worked at Kourion, Amathous Gate cemetery and Athienou-Malloura. Wrote with Chris Mavromatis and Danielle A. Parks.

Life and work

  1. 2008
    With S. C. Fox, 'Recent Research in Cypriot Bioarchaeology', Bioarchaeology of the Near East 2: 1-38.

    Stewart et al. 2014Given 2025

  2. 2010
    Harper, 'From Typology to Population Genetics: Biodistance in Cypriot Archaeology', pp. 1-38 in Proceedings of the 7th Annual Meetings of Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology (POCA), eds S. Christodoulou and A. Satraki.

    Toumazou et al. 2011

  3. 2011
    Two chapters in the Malloura volume: ch. 19 with T. A. Tung, 'Burial Treatment Based on Kinship? The Hellenistic-Roman and Venetian-Period Tombs in the Malloura Valley' (dental nonmetric traits of the Magara Tepesi tombs against the later cemetery); ch. 20, 'Trade or Trousseau: Skeletal Evidence for Spinning and Weaving in Medieval Athienou-Malloura' (dental wear on 63 incisors from the Venetian-period cemetery excavated 1991-93).

    AthienouToumazou et al. 2011

Connections

4 people
Danielle A. ParksSherry C. FoxChris MavromatisTiffiny A. TungNathan K. Harper
Scholarship

Scholarship

On Ancient Cyprus

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Sources

  1. 1.D. A. Parks, C. M. Mavromatis, N. K. Harper (2000). “Preliminary Report of the 1999 Excavations at Kourion's Amathous Gate Cemetery”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 305-316.
  2. 2.N. K. Harper, S. Fox (2008). “Recent Research in Cypriot Bioarchaeology”. Bioarchaeology of the Near East 2, 1-38.
  3. 3.N. K. Harper, T. A. Tung (2011). “Burial Treatment Based on Kinship? The Hellenistic-Roman and Venetian-Period Tombs in the Malloura Valley”. Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus, 247-258.
  4. 4.N. K. Harper (2011). “Trade or Trousseau: Skeletal Evidence for Spinning and Weaving in Medieval Athienou-Malloura”. Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus, 259-.
  5. 5.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.
  6. 6.Benjamin Costello IV (2014). Architecture and Material Culture from the Earthquake House at Kourion, Cyprus. Oxford, Archaeopress.
  7. 7.M. Recke (2018). Like Herrings in a Barrel: Max Ohnefalsch-Richter.
  8. 8.C. A. Stewart (ed.), T. W. Davis (ed.), A. Weyl Carr (ed.) (2014). Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion. CAARI / ASOR.
  9. 9.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.