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Archaeologist · Excavator

Patrick McGovern

fl. 1977–1981 · United States

American archaeologist and excavator, active 1977–1981. Excavated at Baq'ah Valley, Jordan. Dug for Penn Museum.

Life and work

  1. 1977
    Directed the University Museum (Penn) excavations in the Baq'ah Valley, Jordan, from 1977; Penn records Cypriot-type sherds from the project (reg. 344610, 355511). Not work in Cyprus.

    Baq'ah Valley, JordanMeyers 1997

  2. 1981
    Co-authored (Meulengracht, McGovern and Lawn) the University of Pennsylvania radiocarbon dates XXI, cited by the Idalion expedition for the Dhali-Agridhi aceramic and ceramic deposits.

    Stager & Walker 1989

Sources

  1. 1.Eric M. Meyers (ed.) (1997). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. New York, Oxford University Press.
  2. 2.P. E. McGovern (1986). The Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages of Central Transjordan: The Baq'ah Valley Project, 1977-1981. Philadelphia, University Museum.
  3. 3.A. Meulengracht, P. McGovern, B. Lawn (1981). “University of Pennsylvania Radiocarbon Dates XXI”. Radiocarbon 23, 227-240.
  4. 4.Lawrence E. Stager (ed.), Anne M. Walker (ed.) (1989). American Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus, 1973-1980. Chicago, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago.