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Pieridou, Angeliki

(1918–1973)

Angeliki Pieridou studied archaeology at the University of Athens and worked for many years in the Cyprus Museum. She was involved in a variety of archaeological projects in cyprus, especially of later antiquity. She was especially important in pioneering research on Cypriot folk arts and crafts.

David Frankel

References

Iacovou, M. 1996. “Angeliki Pieridou 1918–1973.” Chronologio-Ergographia. Nicosia.

Piette, Edouard

(1827–1906)

One of the most influential French Paleolithic archaelogists of the nineteenth century, Edouard Piette gained fame as the excavator of the major cave site of le mas d’azil in the French Pyrenées, where a single sequence linking the Upper Paleolithic and the Mesolithic was identified for the first time. He named the linking assemblage Azilian (after the site). A keen student of Paleolithic art, Piette acquired a great collection of portable art (i.e., art that was moveable as opposed to Paleolithic art on cave walls), particularly the bones of animals that had been incised. He gave this collection (as well as his collection of ancient stone tools) to the French Museum of Antiquities at Saint Germain-en-Laye, where it is displayed as a unity.

Tim Murray

See also

Lithic Analysis

References

Musée des Antiquités Nationales. 1964. Collection Piette: Art mobilier préhistorique. Paris: Editions des musées nationaux.

Piggott, Stuart

(1910–1996)

stuart piggott is one of a small group of extremely influential archaeologists who began their careers between the First and Second World Wars and who went on to dominate British and European archaeology in the decades after 1945. The breadth of his interests are exceptional, and although his views have been the subject of considerable criticism in recent years, his work is still valued today.

Piggott’s initial area of interest was the Neolithic period of Great Britain, and between 1930 and 1950 he defined the principal monument and artifact types, the chronological sequence, and the regional characteristics of the period. This work culminated in his definitive account of the period, Neolithic Cultures of the British Isles (1954). His approach in this work was distinctive and was characterized by detailed description, accompanied by very fine illustration, and a minimalist approach to social interpretation. It was an attempt at objectivity designed to extract accurate information for a scientific understanding of prehistoric societies. Piggott acknowledged the influence of o. g. s. crawford and Alexander Keiller in his early development, and the scientific rigor of both of those methodical Scotsmen clearly influenced Piggott’s approach.

World War II was a turning point in Piggott’s career. It marked an end to his employment as Keiller’s research assistant at avebury and a broadening of his archaeological interests. During the war he was sent to India, and when not