Swiny Stuart, Rapp George R., Herscher Ellen (eds.). Sotira Kaminoudhia: An Early Bronze Age Site in Cyprus

American Schools of Oriental Research, 2003. — 600 p.The excavations at Sotira Kaminoudhia in southern Cyprus revealed the remains of tombs and an Early Bronze Age settlement. This is the first Early Bronze Age settlement to be excavated in Cyprus, an era previously known only from mortuary deposits. This volume provides a final report on the excavations and includes specialist studies on various artifact groups, including: ceramics, chipped and ground stone, metals and terracottas. Other chapters focus on the skeletal remains, local flora and fauna, the geology, the environment, and a regional archaeological survey. This important report provides a wealth of new material from the southern part of the island, material that may now be compared with finds from the contemporaneous site of Marki Alonia in the centre of the island.As Associate Professor at the University of Albany, Stuart Swiny teaches the art and archaeology of Cyprus from prehistory to the present; the history of ancient Greece; Islamic art and architecture; and the art and architecture of the ancient world up to the Etruscans. Since excavating in Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan in the 1960s and 1970s, his research has focused on the eastern Mediterranean and Cyprus with emphasis on early island colonization, the emergence of complex society, the development of cult and ritual, archaeometallurgy, lithic and ceramic analysis. Swiny also serves as director of the Institute of Cypriot Studies at the University.
George Rapp is the Regents Professor Emeritus at University of Minnesota, Duluth, at which he specializes in geoarchaeology. Rapp's interests include archaeological geology, archaeological geology of the eastern Mediterranean region, trace-element fingerprinting of artifacts, and Shang archaeology of China. Rapp also serves as a fellow of the Geological Society of America and charter member of the Society of Professional Archaeologists, the Board of Directors of which he was a member twice.
Ellen Herscher has specialized in Cypriot archaeology for forty years, participating in excavations and research at numerous sites throughout the island and living there for a spell. She has published extensively on the Bronze Age and on the preservation of archaeological resources. Herscher is currently a consulting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.