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Archaeologist · Excavator · Scholar

P. W. Wallace

fl. 1979–1995 · United States

Professor at the State University of New York at Albany who led survey missions in Mitsero, Marion and the Akamas from 1979 and directed the 1987 excavation season at Episkopi-Bamboula.

Biography

The 1987 season at Episkopi-Bamboula was run from Albany by P. W. Wallace, who also wrote its report. The site had been dug earlier by John Franklin Daniel of Pennsylvania, who died before publishing it6. Wallace was a Professor at the State University of New York at Albany; no forename is printed in the sources2.

His Albany mission surveyed the Mitsero region in 19791. His report "Survey of the Akhera Area" is cited as describing a problem-oriented survey of that year around Meniko, concerned with Late Bronze Age mining and trade9. In 1982 the mission surveyed the Marion region2. In 1983 it worked in collaboration with the Princeton mission of William A. P. Childs at Polis, and on its own explored the Akamas peninsula; Wallace held that the prehistoric city lay elsewhere than the Iron Age one, and the group searched near Magounda for the Late Bronze Age settlement3,7. The 1984 chronicle calls the Albany work a second mission, while Hermary's chronicle describes one American mission directed by Childs and Wallace4,8. Soundings continued in the Chrysokhou region in 19865.

At Bamboula, between 1 June and 2 July 1987, the work consisted largely of clearing and understanding the earlier trenches. Trenches 23 to 29 found nothing, and the line of the fortification wall stayed unknown6. Wallace also edited Visitors, Immigrants, and Invaders in Cyprus (Albany: Institute of Cypriot Studies, 1995)10.

Life and work

  1. 1979
    Directed an Albany mission surveying the Mitsero region (BCH 1979 lists it among the year's foreign missions).

    MitseroKarageorghis 1980

  2. 1979
    Surveyed the Akhera area around Meniko in a problem-oriented survey of Late Bronze Age mining and trade routes; published as 'Survey of the Akhera Area', RDAC 1982, 237-242.

    Akhera, MenikoŞevketoğlu 1998

  3. 1982
    Albany mission under Wallace carried out archaeological survey in the Marion region.

    MarionKarageorghis 1983

  4. 1983
    Albany group, working in collaboration with W. A. P. Childs's Princeton mission, continued the exploration of the Akamas peninsula (Ayios Sergios, Ayios Konon, Baths of Aphrodite, the medieval tower Pyrgos tis Rigenas, planned and its legends collected) and, from Wallace's conviction that the prehistoric city was not on the Iron Age site, searched near Magounda for the Bronze Age settlement.

    Akamas / Marion regionKarageorghis 1984Symons 1986-1987

  5. 1984
    A second SUNY Albany mission under P. Wallace, distinct from the Princeton mission, continued exploration of the Marion region to find the Bronze Age settlement that must have preceded the historic city.

    MarionKarageorghis 1985

  6. 1984–1985
    Hermary's chronicle describes a new American mission at Marion and its region 'directed by W. Childs and P. Wallace'. The BCH reports themselves describe two parallel missions in collaboration, so 'co-direction' is Hermary's wording.

    MarionHermary 1986Karageorghis 1984

  7. 1986
    Albany mission under Wallace continued soundings in the Chrysokhou region.

    ChrysokhouKarageorghis 1987

  8. 1 June 1987 – 2 July 1987
    First excavation season at Episkopi-Bamboula (the site earlier dug by J. F. Daniel of Pennsylvania, who died before publishing). Wallace supplied the report to BCH; trenches 23-29 opened, no fortification wall found, some sectors eliminated for future work.

    EpiskopiKarageorghis 1988

  9. 1995
    Edited Visitors, Immigrants, and Invaders in Cyprus (Albany: Institute of Cypriot Studies, SUNY Albany), a volume with chapters by Counts, Gaber, Fejfer and Hayes and others.

    AlbanyToumazou et al. 2011

Connections

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Fieldwork & employment

Colleagues & contacts

On Ancient Cyprus

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Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1980). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1979”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 104.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1983). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1982”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 107.
  3. 3.V. Karageorghis (1984). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1983”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 108.
  4. 4.V. Karageorghis (1985). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1984”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 109.
  5. 5.V. Karageorghis (1987). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1986”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 111.
  6. 6.V. Karageorghis (1988). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1987”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 112.
  7. 7.D. J. Symons (1986-1987). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1981-85”. Archaeological Reports 33, 62-77.
  8. 8.Antoine Hermary (1986). “Chronique d'archéologie chypriote (1984-1985)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 5.
  9. 9.Müge Hüseyin Şevketoğlu (1998). “Archaeological Field Survey of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Settlement Sites in Kyrenia District, North Cyprus: Systematic Surface Collection and the Interpretation of Artefact Scatters”. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
  10. 10.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.
  11. 11.P. W. Wallace (1982). “Survey of the Akhera Area”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 237-242.
  12. 12.P. W. Wallace (1984). “The Akamas promontory of Cyprus”. Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus, 341-347.
  13. 13.P. W. Wallace (ed.) (1995). Visitors, Immigrants, and Invaders in Cyprus. Albany, Institute of Cypriot Studies, SUNY Albany.