caari monographs

CAARI Monographs are part of the ASOR Archaeological Reports series. Four volumes have been published to date. They include publication of excavations in Cyprus and the proceedings of select conferences organized by CAARI.


Res MaritimaeNo. 1. Stuart Swiny, Robert L. Hohlfelder, and Helena Wylde Swiny (eds.). Res Maritimae: Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean from Prehistory to Late Antiquity, 1994.

Res Maritimae includes a collection of essays by international scholars dealing with such issues as marine archaeology, trade, and ancient history in the Eastern Mediterranean. The publication was the result of the proceedings of the second international symposium “Cities on the Sea.” Essays are written in French and English.

 


Earliest PrehistoryNo. 2. Stuart Swiny (ed.) The Earliest Prehistory of Cyprus from Colonization to Exploitation, 2001.

In The Earliest Prehistory, Swiny and other essayists trace developments in the study of Cypriot prehistory. The essayists seek to position Cyprus as playing a significant part in the development of civilization in the Near East. All essays are written in English.

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Engendering AphroditeNo. 3. Diane Bolger and Nancy Serwint (eds). Engendering Aphrodite: Women and Society in Ancient Cyprus, 2002.

The authors study the identity and image of the goddess Aphrodite from Cypriot prehistory to the medieval period. Aphrodite is considered in tandem with her Near Eastern counterparts. Essays are concerned with gender, ethnicity, identity, and technology. All essays are written in English.

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Sotira KaminoudhiaNo. 4. Stuart Swiny, George Rapp, and Ellen Herscher (eds). Sotira Kaminoudhia, An Early Bronze Age Site in Cyprus, 2003.

The final site report of the CAARI affiliated excavations of the Sotira Kaminoudhia site. The essays include descriptive and analytical papers placing the finds from the site into a regional context of the Early Bronze Age on Cyprus. All essays are written in English. 600 pages.

This book can be downloaded for free from the HathiTrust.


Knapp WebbJ.R.B. Stewart. An Archaeological Legacy
A. Bernard Knapp, Jennifer Webb & Andrew McCarthy (eds.)
Uppsala, Sweden: Åström Editions, 2013.

This volume presents papers from a conference held in honour of J.R.B. Stewart at the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) in March 2013. Part archaeology, part historiography and part biography, the volume seeks to assess Stewart’s legacy within 20th century archaeological scholarship and in the context of our current understanding of Cyprus in the Bronze Age.

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William Caraher, R. Scott Moore and David Pettigrew. Pyla-Koutsopetria I: Archaeological Survey of an Ancient Coastal Town, 2014.

The final site report of the CAARI affiliated excavations of the Sotira Kaminoudhia site. The essays include descriptive and analytical papers placing the finds from the site into a regional context of the Early Bronze Age on Cyprus. All essays are written in English. 600 pages.

This book can be downloaded for free from the HathiTrust.

 


No. 5. Charles A. Stewart, Thomas W. Davis, and Annemarie Weyl Carr (eds). Cyprus and the Balance of Empires: Art and Archaeology from Justinian I to the Coeur de Lion, 2014.

This volume developed from a conference commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus. Between 491 and 1191 AD, Cyprus was influenced by various political and cultural centers that vied for dominance in the Eastern Mediterranean. This collection of essays primarily focuses on the island’s archaeology when it was governed by the Byzantine capital of Constantinople.

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CAARI & The Archaeology of Cyprus: The First 40 Years (1978 – 2018). The Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, 2018

This volume commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI). It provides a historical timeline and visual record from current and past directors, trustees, and colleagues and friends.

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No. 6. Zuzana Chovanec and Walter Crist (eds). All Things Cypriot: Studies on Ancient Environment, Technology, and Society in Honor of Stuart Swiny, 2021.

This volume is dedicated to Stuart Swiny who served as longtime Director of the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute, professor in Classics and Anthropology at the University at Albany, and archaeologist whose work on Cyprus now spans six decades. His research, mentorship as professor, and leadership as CAARI Director has had a profound effect on the development of the discipline on the island and benefited many archaeologists working there. This volume celebrates his contributions to Cypriot archaeology with papers from colleagues, friends, and former students, covering a wide range of topics that reflect his interests in the history and culture of Cyprus.

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