The CAARI News is issued in electronic form three to five times a year. See below for the most recent newsletters.
Previously CAARI News was issued in print form in the Spring and Fall
covering activities at CAARI, as well as events around the world
relevant to Cypriot archaeology and related history and art. Browse the back issues of the newsletter here.
December 2025
Amanda Porter describes her experiences at Dr. Lindy Crewe’s
excavations a Kissonerga-Skalia. Prof. Tyler Jo Smith (CAARI
scholar-in-residence) provides an overview of her research into Athenian
vase imports discovered at archaeological sites across Cyprus. And
CAARI’s copy of the “Kitchener Map” of Cyprus is highlighted by Bill
Andreas and Anthoulla Vassiliades.
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October 2025
CAARI remembers two good friends who recently passed: Ruth Keshishian
and Dr. Patricia Bikai. Kevin Fisher provides a summary of his recent
excavations at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios Building 16. Dr. Nicholas
Stanley-Price provides an introduction to his new book, Cyprus in the 1930s: A Memoir by John Hilton, First Director of Antiquities. And remember to apply for CAARI’s 2026 Fellowships!
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June 2025
Read about CAARI’s 41st Annual Summer Archaeological Workshop. Prof.
Annemarie Weyl Carr, CAARI’s former Vice President, recalls her time
with CAARI. And Dr. Matt Spigelman, CAARI’s new Vice President, looks at
CAARI’s future. And take a look at the new stonework on our facade! link
July 2025
This issue introduces our five new fellows: Chase Minos (Peltenburg
Fellowship), Juan Del Caño Cobo (O’Donovan Fellowship), Candace Richards
(Parks Memorial Fellowship), Spencer Cook (Swiny Fellowship) and Tyler
Jo Smith (Scholar in Residence).
And we introduce two new books: Dr. Catherine Keane: More Than a Church: Late Antique Archaeological Complexes on Cyprus and Dr. Lindy Crewe, Dr. Anna Reeve, and Dr. Thomas Kiely: Empire and Excavation. Critical Perspectives on Archaeology in British-Period Cyprus, 1878–1960. link
April 2025
Two new books are available: Empire and Excavation. Critical Perspectives on Archaeology in British-Period Cyprus, 1878–1960 edited by Lindy Crewe, Thomas Kiely and Anna Reeve. And Looking Beyond Icons in the Study of the Byzantine Past
edited by William Caraher. Learn what our fellow are up to: Elisabeth
Ilgner (Anita Cecil O’Donovan Fellowship) describes her work on Grave Goods in Context at Polis-Chrysochous: Extracting Meaning from 19th-Century Assemblages and Dr. Leilani Lucas (CAARI/CAORC Postdoctoral Fellow) reports on The Archaeology of Food at Kissonerga-Skalia: Tracing the Prehistoric Origins of Tremithopita. link
December 2025
Learn what our fellow are up to: Giulia Albertazzi (Danielle Parks Memorial Fellowship) talks about The Shapes of Water: The Ecological, Productive, and Ideological Dimension of the Human-Water Relationship in Ancient Cyprus, Kellan Klaus (Helena Wylde Swiny and Stuart Swiny Fellowship) discusses Historicities of the Displaced Soul: Suffering, Struggle, and Salvation among Internally Displaced Greek Orthodox Cypriots, and Dr. Nicholas Herrmann (Scholar in Residence) describes his work on The Ancient Kition Bioarchaeological Project. And Annemarie Weyl Carr (CAARI VP) provides the scoop on our co-sponsored event at the Penn Museum And Celebrating Cyprus’ Cultural Heritage in American Life and Learning. link
October 2024
We issue three invitations. First we invite applications for fellowships. Second we invite you peruse Keith Peterson’s new book American Dreams: The Story of the Cyprus Fulbright Commission. Third we invite you to our upcoming festive afternoon at the Penn Museum Celebrating Cyprus’ Cultural Heritage in American Life and Learning. And as always our director keeps you up to date on the goings on at CAARI.
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August 2024
It’s all about Food in and Food as Archaeology! Dr. R. Scott Moore
describes his experiments in making sheftalia. Dr. A. Bernard Knapp
describes cooking and recipes for SCSP/TAESP. Dr. Michal Artzy provides
photos of traditional Cypriot cooking. Dr. Lindy Crewe brews beer at
Kissonerga-Skalia in a Bronze Age way. And Dr. Ian Randall tells how to
dine like a Cypriot in the Late Roman Period.
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May 2024
Our new fellows describe what they’ll be doing in Cyprus — Dr. Ellon
Souter (Peltenburg Fellow), Dr. Diane Bolger (CAARI/CAORC Postdoc
Fellow), Dr. Leilani Lucas (CAARI/CAORC Postdoc Fellow), Elizabeth Neill
(US Embassy in Cyprus Fellow)
Elisabeth Ilgner (Anita Cecil O’Donovan Fellow), Giulia Albertazzi
(Danielle Parks Memorial Fellow), Kellan Klaus (Helena Wylde Swiny and
Stuart Swiny Fellow) and Dr. Nicholas Herrmann (Scholar in Residence).
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March 2024
Read what’s new at CAARI, learn from Dr. Francesca Meneghetti about “little ceramic vessels” uncovered at Bamboulari tis Koukounninas near Athnienou, and Dr. Alan Simmons previews his newly published book From the Mountains to the Sea: Ais Giorkis, an Early Neolithic Hamlet in the Troödos Foothills of Western Cyprus.
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December 2023
It’s Christmas time at CAARI and three senior scholars provide
overviews of their recent research. First Dr. Frederick Whitling
revisits the Swedish Cyprus Expedition. Then Dr. Bryan Burns describes
his research into Mycenaean connections with Late Bronze Age Cyprus.
Finally Dr. Aaron T. Hollander describes his research into St. George
across the street from CAARI at St. George’s Hill.
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October 2023
We share reports from two graduate student fellows: Clay Carpenter on The Ktisis of Early Christian Kourion and Michał Michalik on the Water Supply of the Nea Paphos Agora in Context. Read Dr. Steven Falconer’s (Fulbright Scholar) research into The Emergence of Prehistoric Social Identity and Civilization on Cyprus. And we herald a new book by CAARI Trustee Dr. Kevin Fisher Re-thinking the Monumental Buildings of Late Bronze Age Cyprus.
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August 2023
Catch up with Caroline Barnes’ recap of the 39th CAARI Summer
Archaeological Workshop held in June. Learn about a High School
student’s experience volunteering at CAARI. And on a sad note, read
CAARI’s tribute to Dr. Pavlos Flourentzos who passed in July.
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May 2023
Meet the 2023 CAARI Fellows: Post-Doctorate fellows: Dr. Francesca
Meneghetti, Dr. Bryan Burns, Dr. Aaron T. Hollander and Dr. Frederick
Whitling. Pre-Doctoral Fellows: Clay Carpenter, Ana Gonzalez San Martin,
and Michał Michalik. Fulbright scholar: Dr. Thomas Landvatter.
Learn how to create a Neolithic barbecue with Dr. Andrew McCarthy’s article on
“Playing with Fire: Experimenting with Neolithic Cooking at Prasteio-Mesorotsos.”
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April 2023
Read about the Workshop on Sampling Strategies by Dr. Maria Dikomitou Eliadou. And then savor our special section about Food: Feeding Bodies, Fueling Minds “An Army Marches on Its Stomach” (recipes for feeding archaeologists!)
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January 2023
Learn how to make a traditional vasilopita or St. Basil’s cake, a
sweet confection with endlessly varied recipes but always a coin baked
into the dough. Read about Prov. Bleda Düring’s stay at CAARI as a CAARI
Scholar in Residence. Reminisce with Glynnis Fawkes (former Fulbright
scholar CAARI) and her father Tom Fawkes painting in the CAARI library.
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November 2022
It’s time to apply for a CAARI Fellowship! Former fellows Catherine
Olien, Young Richard Kim, Hanan Charaf and Matthew Spigelman recall
their time as fellows at CAARI. Dr. Catherine Keane previews her new
book More than a Church: Late Antique Ecclesiastical Complexes in Cyprus.
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May 2022
Meet CAARI’s newest class of fellows. Then learn how the Cypriots
used to play as Dr. Walter Crist offers us a brisk and enlightening
journey through the archaeology of Cypriots’ millennia-long fascination
with board games.
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March 2022
Read Stuart and Laina Swiny’s encomium of Vassos Karageorghis who
passed in 2021. Delve into Laura Swantek and Tom Davis’ work at Kourion.
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December 2021
Read about Bryan F. Wilkin’s legacy. Catch up on recent research at
CAARI by E.M. Jelajian and Dr. Alan Simmons (as always Alan keeps you
abreast of the latest Pygmy Hippo news!)
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October 2021
It’s time to apply for CAARI fellowships! Read research reports from
current CAARI Fellows Dr. Artemis Georgiou and Dr. Ronaldo G. Gurgel
Pereira. And, research reports from CAARI graduate student fellows
Caroline Barnes, Maria Hadjigavriel and Eleanor Q. Neil. Remembering
valued friends Onisiforos Loukaides and William Bedenbaugh.
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July 2021
Welcome Katerina Mavromichalou who takes over for our much-loved
Vathoulla Moustoukki and meet Anthoulla Vassiliades our new librarian.
We introduce CAARI’s new co-presidents Professors Nancy Serwint and R.
Scott Moore. And we remember F. Bryan Wilkins our much-missed former
president. And finally an update on our ever growing collection of
material about the Jewish detention centers maintained on Cyprus after
WWII.
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May 2021
CAARI Remembers Carole McCartney and F. Bryan Wilkins. Updates on
what this year’s fellows are doing: Peltenburg fellow Dr. Charalambos
Paraskeva, CAARI/CAORC fellows Dr. Lisa Mahoney and Dr. Ian Randall,
Predoctoral fellows Caroline Barnes, Maria Hadjigavriel and Maria
Hadjigavriel and Scholar in Residence Dr. Ronaldo G. Gurgel Pereira.
Plus a thank-you note from Vathoulla Moustoukki!
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March 2021
Read Dr. Stuart Swiny’s appreciation of Vathoulla Moustoukki, CAARI’s
longtime administrator who retired after serving CAARI for forty years.
Derek Counts and Erin Averett write about their new publication which
comes in a fascinating new format. And catch up on what happened in the
second part of CAARI’s virtual conference Empire and Excavation: Critical Perspectives on Archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878-1960.
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December 2020
Read how Dr. Maria Dikomitou Eliadou used CAARI’s resources for
Project “MuseCo” during the pandemic. Anna Reeve provides a summary of
the first part of CAARI’s online conference “Empire and Excavation:
Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus,
1878-1960.”
And Dr. Laura Swantek tells us what we’ve missed at CAARI during the pandemic and what we can do about it.
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October 2020
It’s time to apply for fellowships! Read how the research of three of
our current fellows — Cassandra Donnelly, Rafael Laoutari and Dr.
Artemis Georgiou — is proceeding during these unusual times. Dr. Zuzana
Chovanec and Dr. Walter Crist provide information about their recent
publication in honor of Stuart Swiny. And Stuart provides a remembrance
of Norma Kershaw, CAARI’s first president.
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August 2020
Read how CAARI is faring during the COVID-19 pandemic. Five younger
students and scholars of Cypriot archaeology Dr. Georgia Andreou, Canan
Cem, Erin Beatty, Alice Wolff and Anna Reynolds – provide their views on
systemic racism in our field and solutions for the future on the basis
of their observations in the field and in the classroom.
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May 2020
Read how CAARI is faring during the COVID-19 pandemic. Meet our new
fellows. And Dr. Gloria London shares news about her newest book.
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April 2020
Read how CAARI is faring during the COVID-19 pandemic. Catch up on
research updates from Professor Nicholas P. Herrmann and Nathan Meyer.
Learn how CAARI’s Collection of Jewish Detention Camp documents keeps
growing. And Dr. Christopher Davey describes new techniques for mapping
underground features.
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January 2020
Learn how to make Vathoulla’s Traditional Cypriot Vasilis Bread!
Read up on research updates from Prof. Elzbieta Jastrzebowska, Matthias
Metzger, and Brigid Clark. Prof. Pamela Gaber provides new insights on
Limestone Sculpture on Cyprus.
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October 2019
It’s time to apply for CAARI Fellowships! Read about recent lectures
at CAARI. Dr. Daniel Coslett describes his work on “Re-presentations of
Antiquity in Colonial and
Postcolonial Nicosia”. See CAARI’s recent additions to the library of
material published in the Cyprus Jewish Internment Camps between 1946
and 1949.
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July 2019
Read about recent the conference in honour of A. Bernard Knapp and about the 38th Annual CAARI Archaeological Workshop.
Dr. Anna Spyrou, the Edgar J. Peltenburg Fellow, describes her research
into the human-cattle relationship in Cypriot Prehistory. Learn about
surprising holdings in CAARI’s Archives.
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May 2019
Read about our new US headquarters and then learn about our 2019-2020
Fellows including three graduate student fellows, two CAARI/CAORC
postdoctoral fellows, the Senior Scholar in residence and our first
Edgar Peltenburg postdoctoral scholar. Finally read Catherine
Deans-Barrett’s recollections about CAARI over her 18 years working on
the island.
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March 2019
Read about a CAARI’s new state-of-the-art Leica microscopes in our
thin-section lab made possible by a generous gift from Mrs. Leslys
Vedder in memory of her hustand, Dr. James F. Vedder. And Dr. Annemarie
Weyl Carr provides a unique look at “Hell in the Sweet Land”, an
examination of Asinou’s Last Judgment.
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December 2018
Learn about research at CAARI with reports from Dr. Hanan Charaf
(CAARI Senior Scholar in Residence) on Cypriot Bronze Age pottery found
in Lebanon and from Dr. Henry Shaprio (CAARI/CAORC Fellow) on Armenian
Pilgrims in Ottoman Cyprus.
And Dr. Ann-Marie Knoblauch provides an in depth look at how 1870s New
York reacted to Luigi Palma di Cesnola and his collection of Cypriot
Antiquities.
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October 2018
Read about research at CAARI with reports from Sarah Douglas (Danielle Parks Memorial Fellowship) on Gender and Status on Prehistoric Cyprus: Rethinking Bronze Age Burial Data (c. 2500-1340 BC),
Kellie Youngs (Anita Cecil O’Donovan Fellowship) on The Transmission and Innovation of Faience and Glass Technologies of Cyprus in the Late Bronze Age, Ian Randall (Helena Wylde Swiny and Stuart Swiny Fellowship) on Dining and Connectivity at times of Crisis on the South Coast of Cyprus and Dr. Laura Swantek (CAARI/CAORC Fellow) on Social Complexity on Cyprus before and after Urbanism.
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July 2018
Read about CAARI’s 40th Birthday Bash. Learn about the new Edgar J.
Peltenburg Postdoc Research Fellowship. And get educated about the
history of Proto-Aeolic column capitals.
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May 2018
Catch up on news from our director. Find out about our new Fellows.
Read about Craig Harvey and William Caraher’s recent research. And
catch up on CAARI’s 40th Birthday preparations.
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March 2018
Catch up on news from our director. Read about students from
Lycoming College pioneering a new program at CAARI. See a recent gift
to CAARI – Cobham’s own copy of Excerpta Cypria. Learn how to give books or conservation to CAARI. And catch up on CAARI’s 40th Birthday preparations.
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December 2017
Catch up on news from our director. See a new painting by Glynnis
Fawkes that now graces CAARI. Read about a new CAORC grant awarded to
Cyprus. And catch up on CAARI’s 40th Birthday preparations.
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October 2017
Catch up on news from from our 2017 Fellows. Read about two new
books by Professor Birgitta Lindros Wohl. And catch up on CAARI’s 40th
Birthday preparations.
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August 2017
Catch up on news from CAARI’s 36th Summer Archaeology Workshop and
conference “Melusine of Cyprus” honoring CAARI Trustee Annemarie Weyl
Carr. Read about CAARI’s new garden in action, Prof. Charles Stewart’s
Research at CAARI, and our appreciation of Dr. Andrew McCarthy’s six
years as CAARI director. And learn about Digital Cobham, CAARI’s new
research tool.
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June 2017
Meet the 2017-2018 CAARI Fellowship recipients. Keep up with news
about preparations for CAARI’s 40th Birthday in 2018. Read Ann-Marie
Knoblauch’s notes about casts made from Cesnola’s Cypriot sculptures.
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March 2017
Meet Lindy Crewe, CAARI’s new director who will take over the reins
at CAARI at the end of June, 2017. Read about the CAARI Symposium Environment, landscape and society: diachronic perspectives on settlement patterns in Cyprus held in February 2017. Keep up with news about CAARI’s 40th Birthday in 2018.
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January 2017
Learn about CAARI’s new Petrographic Thin-Section Laboratory. Meet
Dr. China Shelton, CAARI’s Boston administrator. Catch up on a new
pioneering publication by CAARI scholars: Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology
(co-edited by Erin W. Averett, Jody M. Gordon, and Derek B. Counts)
published in October 2016. And a new scarce periodical has been added
to the CAARI library: a complete run of “Al HaSaf” (On the
Verge) a weekly magazine published by students and graduates of the
Pinhas Rutenberg JDC Seminary for Guides in Cyprus between 1948 and 1949
in the Cyprus internment camps run by the British government to hold
Jews who had immigrated or attempted to immigrate to Palestine after
World War II.
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October 2016
Read summary reports from our 2016 fellows. Learn about CAARI’s
commitment to the renewal of the Government of the Republic of Cyprus
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the United States. And meet Bryan
Wilkins, CAARI’s new president.
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July 2016
Read about the inauguration of our new library wing in June 2016 and
about the summer Archaeology Workshop in July 2016. Learn about a new
book by CAARI Alumna Gloria London: Ancient Cookware from the Levant. An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective. And read about how an unexpected benefaction has helped rebuild CAARI’s garden.
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May 2016
Read about the 2016 CAARI Fellows and we provide an update on the near completion of our library expansion.
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February 2016
An invitation to the inauguration events for our new library wing and an update on its construction.
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November 2015
Read the lastest update about the library expansion construction.
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July 2015
Read about the new garden over the library expansion.
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March 2015
Read about the 2015 CAARI Fellows, snow in Nicosia and excavating for the new library expansion.
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