Welcome to the homepage of the Lemba Archaeological Project, Cyprus. The project is a research based undertaking of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh and is under the overall directorship of Prof. Peltenburg. We work in co-operation with the Director of the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus who has supported us in our our work and to whom our thanks are due. We are also grateful for the support of the mayors and villagers of Lemba and Kissonerga where we have been working for the past twenty years.

The project is based in the picturesque village of Lemba just six miles north of the historic town of Paphos in south-western Cyprus where we have converted a couple of traditional Cypriote houses into a research and accommodation centre known as the Lemba Archaeological Research Centre (LARC).

We have been working in the area since 1976 exploring the prehistory of the Paphos District and in particular, the Chalcolithic Period (c. 3800-2500 BC). Since then we have carried out excavations on the sites of Lemba-Lakkous, Kissonerga-Mosphilia, Kissonerga-Mylouthkia, Souskiou Village and Souskiou-Laona. Extensive survey work has also been carried out in several areas of the Paphos District. As with all such large projects we have been involved in studies into the palaeoenvironment of Cyprus and in artefact studies of the period. More recently we have embarked on a project of experimental archaeology and site presentation at the Lemba Experimental Village. Much of the work carried out by the project has already been published in several project monographs while individual contributions to the archaeology of Cyprus and the Near East have also appeared in other publications and in articles in academic journals.