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Expedition member · Archaeologist

W. Johnstone

fl. 1963–1971

Expedition member and archaeologist, active 1963–1971. Excavated at Enkomi. Excavated with Jacques-Claude Courtois and Olivier Pelon; worked with Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer and R. Tamassia.

Life and work

  1. 1963
    Member of the 16th (autumn) campaign of the French mission at Enkomi-Alasia, directed by C. F. A. Schaeffer, with Mr and Miss Courtois, J. Lagarce, J.-P. Nicolardot and R. Tamassia. Karageorghis's chronicle says Johnstone is to publish the oval mud/baked-brick 'beehive' monument found that year, interpreted as a collective tomb in use in the 13th century BC.

    EnkomiKarageorghis 1964

  2. 1971
    Completed his study of the brick tholos found in 1963, for publication in Alasia I; mission then directed by O. Pelon.

    EnkomiKarageorghis 1972

  3. 1971
    Published 'A Late Bronze Age tholos tomb at Enkomi' in C. F. A. Schaeffer (ed.), Alasia I (Paris), pp. 51-122.

    EnkomiGraziadioCrewe 2009

Connections

4 people
Jacques-Claude CourtoisOlivier PelonClaude Frédéric-Armand Sc…R. TamassiaW. Johnstone
FieldworkColleagues

Fieldwork & employment

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.V. Karageorghis (1964). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1963”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 88.
  2. 2.V. Karageorghis (1972). “Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques à Chypre en 1971”. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 96.
  3. 3.Giampaolo Graziadio. The Earliest Production of Aegean-Type Pottery in Cyprus.
  4. 4.Lindy Crewe (2009). “Feasting with the dead? Tomb 66 at Enkomi”. Ancient Cyprus in the British Museum: Essays in Honour of Veronica Tatton-Brown, 27-.
  5. 5.W. Johnstone (1971). “A Late Bronze Age tholos tomb at Enkomi”. Alasia I, 51-122. Paris.