Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Archaeologist

Peter Hayes

fl. 1989–1995

Archaeologist, active 1989–1995. Excavated at Akamas peninsula (Ayios Kononos area). Worked with Jane Fejfer and Hans Erik Mathiesen.

Life and work

  1. 1989–1993
    Directed the Danish Akamas Project's survey of c. 15 km2 around Ayios Kononos: over 200 rock-cut tombs (mostly Hellenistic and Roman), at least three important mid- to late Chalcolithic settlements, some Archaic pottery, extensive land use from the Hellenistic period, and extensive Late Roman-Middle Byzantine settlement.

    AkamasHerscher 1995, p. 289

  2. 1995
    Co-authored with J. Feifer (spelling as printed) 'Ancient Akamas and the abandonment of sites in seventh-century A.D. Cyprus', pp. 62-69 in P. W. Wallace (ed.), Visitors, Immigrants, and Invaders in Cyprus (Albany).

    Metcalf 2009

Connections

2 people

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Ellen Herscher (1995). “Archaeology in Cyprus”. American Journal of Archaeology 99, 257-294.
  2. 2.D. M. Metcalf (2009). Byzantine Cyprus 491-1191. Nicosia, Cyprus Research Centre.
  3. 3.J. Fejfer, P. P. Hayes (1995). “Ancient Akamas and the abandonment of sites in seventh-century A.D. Cyprus”. Visitors, Immigrants, and Invaders in Cyprus, 62-69. Institute of Cypriot Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York.