2010 Annual Meeting Plenary Speaker
Professor Edgar Peltenburg, University of Edinburgh
"Fashioning Identity: Workshops and Cemeteries at Prehistoric Souskiou, Cyprus"
Edgar Peltenburg graduated with a degree in 
Ancient History and Archaeology from the University of Birmingham. He was Lecturer in Archaeology and Adult Education in Argyll and the Isles before joining the University of Edinburgh. Research interests include small-scale society dynamics, archaic states and early technology, especially vitreous materials. Peltenburg had carried out fieldwork in Canada, several parts of the Middle East and Cyprus where he is director of the Lemba Archaeological Research Centre. He is Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and among his publications are Early Society in Cyprus (ed. 1989), The Burrell Collection: Western Asiatic Antiquities (1991) and The Colonisation and Settlement of Cyprus. Investigations at Kissonerga-Mylouthkia, 1976-1996 (ed. 2003).
