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CAARI-Cyprus @caari-cyprus.bsky.social · 29d

We await you @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social ! Looking forward to catching up & hearing about your latest exciting research.

Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 29d

Not quite ready for the English autumn so I’m escaping to @caari-cyprus.bsky.social for a week, for museums, bookshops, archives, a lecture, galleries, and hopefully lots of writing.

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CAARI-Cyprus @caari-cyprus.bsky.social · Sep 8

It has been great having you here @circa-candace.bsky.social & Kalo taxidi for your journey home!

Candace Richards @circa-candace.bsky.social · Sep 7

5 weeks in Cyprus @caari-cyprus.bsky.social = serious library time plus fun museum and heritage excursions. The Ledra city is super cute, displaying the finds from the excavations on site. A figurine factory means lots of wasters. Favourite find has to be the terracotta bath tub.

A limestone two story house sits on a small hill with new trees planted around it.

A series of ceramic fragments, including a rim and handle have fused together to form an odd shaped lump.

On the bottom of a cream coloured lamp is a line drawing od a person wearing a stripey red and black cloak and dress. Their face is obscured where the image has worn away over time.

A terracotta bathtub with a small internal seat and footwell is displayed in a museum. It has been restored from many fragments.

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CAARI-Cyprus @caari-cyprus.bsky.social · Aug 10

A beautiful tribute to a wonderful person. We will miss Ruth Keshishian so much.

Cyprus Mail @cyprus-mail.com · Aug 10

She ran unofficial culture ministry but had a phobia of publicity

cyprus-mail.com

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CAARI-Cyprus @caari-cyprus.bsky.social · Jul 4

& a great addition to our library it is @tatepaulette.bsky.social !

Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · Jul 4

Happy to run into my book on the shelves at the @caari-cyprus.bsky.social library

Photo showing close-up of bookshelf in the “Technology—Ancient” section at the CAARI library in Nicosia, highlighting the book In the Land of Ninkasi by Tate Paulette.

Photo showing bookshelves, large tables, and rolling ladders in the CAARI library in Nicosia

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CBRL - Council for British Research in the Levant @cbrl.bsky.social · Jun 26

Deadline Extended to 28th June: "Bridging Research to Publication – Advanced Writing Workshops (2025-2027)" - CBRL's support package for early career researchers based in Jordan, affiliated with academic, research, or heritage institutions. Details/applications here: www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/call-fo...

Call for Applications: Bridging Research to Publication - Advanced Writing Workshops (2025-2027) - CBRL %

CBRL in partnership with the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (RIIFS), is launching an exciting new initiative aimed at enhancing the academic publishing skills of early career researchers (ECR...

www.cbrl.ac.uk

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CAARI-Cyprus @caari-cyprus.bsky.social · Jun 9

Great interview with CAARI Fulbright researcher Caroline Barnes!

Craig Barker @drcraigb.bsky.social · Jun 9

‘No kings, no slaves: Who built Bronze Age Cyprus?’ #archaeology 🏺

in-cyprus.philenews.com/local/bronze...

No kings, no slaves: Who built Bronze Age Cyprus?

Ashlar masonry may seem like a dry architectural detail, but for archaeologist and Fulbright scholar Caroline Barnes, it offers critical insights into how communities shaped their environments—and the...

in-cyprus.philenews.com

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CAARI-Cyprus @caari-cyprus.bsky.social · Jun 4

A well-deserved award for an exciting project @circa-candace.bsky.social & we await your arrival on Cyprus!

Candace Richards @circa-candace.bsky.social · Jun 3

I am thrilled to receive the 2025 Danielle Parks Memorial Fellowship @caari-cyprus.bsky.social (the announcement just went out in the newsletter)! I'll be working on my Recycling Paphos project that explores reuse practices in Nea Paphos and new methodologies for recording multiple reuse events 🏺

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CAARI-Cyprus @caari-cyprus.bsky.social · May 16

Same same @drcraigb.bsky.social (although not this week). No idea as an undergrad I would spend 30 years in the archaeology of Cyprus!

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CAARI-Cyprus @caari-cyprus.bsky.social · May 16

The programme for the 41st annual CAARI summer archaeological workshop is up! Please join us if you will be in Nicosia 14 June for a full & exciting day of reports on recent 🏺 fieldwork & research.

caari.org/wp-content/u...

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CAARI-Cyprus @caari-cyprus.bsky.social · May 13

Really looking forward to seeing this film tomorrow night! Will let you know if it will be available to watch online anywhere afterwards.

Craig Barker @drcraigb.bsky.social · May 13

'Fascinating new documentary provides insight into Cyprus’ long history with copper'

cyprus-mail.com/2025/05/12/f...

Fascinating new documentary provides insight into Cyprus’ long history with copper

A mecca for climbers, hikers, geologists and nature lovers today, the Troodos mountain range is the backbone of Cyprus ever since it was formed 92 million years ago as a fragment of an ancient oceanic...

cyprus-mail.com

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CAARI-Cyprus @caari-cyprus.bsky.social · May 5

Such an important & exciting new early prehistoric site in Akamas!

Craig Barker @drcraigb.bsky.social · May 5

'New archaeological findings in Akamas ‘change early prehistory’' #archaeology #archaeologynews🏺
cyprus-mail.com/2025/05/02/n...

New archaeological findings in Akamas ‘change early prehistory’

A new archaeological discovery in the region of Akamas is changing the early prehistory of Cyprus, the Department of Antiquities announced on Friday. “A very special find, discovered in situ, likely e...

cyprus-mail.com

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Suzanne Pilaar Birch @suziebirch.bsky.social · Apr 30

New #openaccess paper in Archaeological & Anthropological Sciences, on research funded by #NSF: Domestic herbivore mobility and herd management at Bronze Age Politiko-Troullia, Cyprus link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Domestic herbivore mobility and herd management at Bronze Age Politiko-Troullia, Cyprus - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

This study presents stable isotope analysis of carbon (δ13C) and oxygen (δ18O) from goat, sheep, and cattle teeth excavated from the Bronze Age village of Politiko-Troullia, Cyprus. The δ18O of local ...

link.springer.com

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CAARI-Cyprus @caari-cyprus.bsky.social · Apr 25

Very pleased that copies of our new volume with @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social & Thomas Kiely ‘Empire & Excavation. Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus’ have arrived! Thanks to @sidestone.bsky.social 🏺

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CAARI-Cyprus @caari-cyprus.bsky.social · Jan 30

We are excited too! A good spring series coming up, stay tuned.

Craig Barker @drcraigb.bsky.social · Jan 30

Looking forward to the 2025 series of talks hosted by @caari-cyprus.bsky.social starting next week with the launch of Bernard Knapp’s new book ‘Cyprus and Ugarit’

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Dr. Walter Crist @waltros.bsky.social · Dec 7

Now out in Digital Humanities Quarterly!

Traditional board games are important, threatened, and inadequately researched cultural heritage.

We compiled the Ludii Games Database to improve scholarship, preserve knowledge, and make them playable.

www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/4...

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: The Ludii Games Database: A Resource for Computational and Cultural Research on Traditional Board Games

www.digitalhumanities.org

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Craig Barker @drcraigb.bsky.social · Nov 28

Ancient writing found on wall Paphos dig

Report on the 2024 season at the Kouklia-Martsello at Palaepaphos by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
#archaeologynews 🏺

cyprus-mail.com/2024/11/27/a...

Ancient writing found on wall in Paphos dig

Ancient Cypriot writing was found on a wall dating from the 6th century BC at an archeological dig in Palaepaphos, the department of antiquities said on Wednesday. “The findings that will be revealed ...

cyprus-mail.com

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CAARI-Cyprus @caari-cyprus.bsky.social · Nov 19

Aww, pretty sure this is the cartoon used to illustrate the front of the festschrift for David Frankel & might even have been written about him!

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Nov 18

Sherds - #archaeologists' joy!

#archaeology #pottery 🏺

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CAARI-Cyprus @caari-cyprus.bsky.social · Nov 13

Seeing a lot of cats on here but not so many dogs so introducing a couple of #barkaeologists (currently not in the field).

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CAARI-Cyprus @caari-cyprus.bsky.social · Nov 13

CAARI fellowships for research into archaeology & heritage are open for applications! Grad student closing date early December & senior fellowships early January. See our website for info: caari.org/fellowships/

CAARI Fellowships

caari.org

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