Recently added articles from Near Eastern Archaeology:
"Welcome, Sir, to Cyprus": The Local Reaction to American Archaeological Research
Mar 01, 2008; ... The activities of many foreign diplomats, including Luigi Palma di Cesnola and his brother Major Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, the consul and vice-consul respectively of the United States in the years between 1865 and 1879 predated the introduction of scientific research on Cyprus. Their ...
From the Guest Editors
Mar 01, 2008; ... The island of Cyprus, to put it simply, is an alluring place. From its mythological origins associated with the birth of Aphrodite, to the first Neolithic colonizers and through centuries of foreign visitors and settlers, the island has attracted many a traveler to its shores. For scholars ...
This issue is dedicated to the memory of Danielle A. Parks
Mar 01, 2008; ... Danielle A. Parks was the only daughter of Linda and Michael Parks. Her father's position as foreign correspondent for The Los Angeies Times resulted in a globe-hopping childhood. A bachelors in Classics from Brown University led to a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri in 1999 followed by a ...
American Researchers and the Earliest Cypriots
Mar 01, 2008; ... Although they produced some of the most sophisticated cultures of the ancient world, until recently there was little evidence that most Mediterranean islands were occupied prior to the Neolithic, and the traditional paradigm held that permanent residents did not arrive until late in that period ....
What's in a Name? CAARI at Thirty
Mar 01, 2008; ... The name of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) reflects its role throughout its thirty-year history. The location of CAARI in Cyprus is a major asset, reflecting the island's historic role as a bridge between East and West. American financial support, both government ...
BRINGING OLD EXCAVATIONS TO LIFE
Mar 01, 2008; ... The aim of the current movement toward publishing old excavations rather than engaging in new fieldwork is to make primary source information finally available to both scholars and the public. But publishing old excavations also presents significant challenges, such as working with excavation ...
Of Cows, Copper, Corners, and Cult: The Emergence of the Cypriot Bronze Age
Mar 01, 2008; ... It is no small irony that American interest in the Bronze Age of Cyprus harks back to the mid-nineteenth century antiquarian activities of Louis Palma di Cesnola, one of the most controversial and flamboyant figures to have scoured the island for vestiges of its ancient past. Today there is a ...
The History of History: Excavations at Idalion and the Changing History of a City-Kingdom
Mar 01, 2008; ... When the antiquarians of the nineteenth century turned their sights on Cyprus, some ancient cities were easier to locate than others. The site of the ancient city-kingdom of ldalion was particularly easy to find, since its name was preserved in its direct descendant, the village ofDhali. The ...
POLIS CHRYSOCHOUS: Princeton University's Excavations of Ancient Marion and Arsinoe
Mar 01, 2008; ... The site of Polis Chrysochous lies near the extreme western end of Cyprus along a stunningly beautiful bay that over the past twenty years has become a major attraction for worshipers of sun and sea. As early as 1885, Max Ohnefalsch'Richter began excavations and since then over 850 tombs have ...
The Kyrenia Ship: Her Recent Journey
Mar 01, 2008; ... The pristine mound of about eighty amphorae discovered at the bottom of the Aegean Sea by Andreas Cariolou in 1965 held particular promise in the eyes of archaeologist Michael L. Katzev, who would go onto direct its excavation. Most shipwrecks then known in the eastern Mediterranean had come ...
Surveying Late Antique Cyprus
Mar 01, 2008; ... The Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project (PKAP) is an intensive survey of the Late Antique site of Koutsopetria, located on the coast of southern Cyprus immediately east of modern Larnaka. Since 2003, a team under the direction of the authors have conducted an intensive survey of the ...
From Polis to Pasture: Exploring the Cypriot Countryside of Late Antiquity
Mar 01, 2008; ... The island of Cyprus has remained on the sidelines of classical studies, and as a result has contributed little to recent assessments of late antiquity. Modern scholarship has unaccountably overlooked the geographic centrality, natural abundance, and strategic importance of this remote but ...
Dumbarton Oaks and the Legacy of Byzantine Cyprus
Mar 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) Cyprus' rich Byzantine legacy is indelibly linked to the name of Dumbarton Oaks. During the years between 1952 and 1978, Dumbarton Oaks, a privately funded research institute in Washington, D.C. under the trusteeship of Harvard ...
"Twixt Cross and Crescent": CAARI and the Cultural History of Crusader and Islamic Cyprus
Mar 01, 2008; ... The medieval and early modern periods (twelfth through nineteenth centuries) are popularly imagined as one of the "dark ages" ofCypriot history, when the island was occupied by foreign forces and its Orthodox Christian heritage suppressed.1 Fortunately, the last twenty years have witnessed a ...
Short Skulls, Long Skulls, and Thalassemia: J. Lawrence Angel and the Development of Cypriot Anthropology
Mar 01, 2008; ... When John Lawrence Angel came to Cyprus in the spring of 1949, he came not only as a respected physical anthropologist who had worked in Greece and the Aegean for over ten years, but he also arrived bearing new ideas concerning the relationships of ancient populations to each other and to their ...
HOW AND WHY POTMARKS MATTER
Mar 01, 2008; ... Potmarks lie in a no-man's land, not quite within the usual parameters of ceramic studies, not usually a concern for epigraphists. Although many excavations have yielded some potmarks, they are not a regular feature of publication. But potmarks found in Bronze Age contexts in Cyprus occupy an ...
American Archaeologists in Cypriot Waters: One Nation's Contributions to the Underwater Exploration of Cyprus' Past
Mar 01, 2008; ... Marine archaeology in Cyprus can be traced back to the subdiscipline's formative years in the early 1960s. Over the course of four decades, a multinational array of scholars from Poland, Germany, Britain, Israel, Sweden, France, Greece, Cyprus, and the United States have contributed to our ...
From the Editor
Dec 01, 2007; ... In August 2007 Ann Killebrew, Andy Vaughn, and Jeff Blakely were named as interim co-editors of NEA with the primary goal of getting the journal back on schedule while maintaining quality articles. Tasks were assigned and we began work assisting in the final double issue of volume 69. Our first ...
IT IS THE LAND OF HONEY: BEEKEEPING AT TEL REHOV
Dec 01, 2007; ... Rearing bees in hives and the production of honey and beeswax is one of the least-understood aspects of the economy during the Bronze and Iron Ages in the ancient Near East. The Bible does not refer to beekeeping, though in Egypt there are a number of pictorial depictions of Bee-rearing and ...
Et-Tell is Not Bethsaida
Dec 01, 2007; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) One of the challenging tasks for archaeologists and biblical historians alike is the identification of sites mentioned in the Bible, many of which were destroyed and disappeared in time without a trace. Such seems to have been the fate of ...