Operating budget

• French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE), « Néolithisation » Mission – Klimonas
• The French School in Athens
• The CNRS, through the Study site in Global Ecology “Limassol” (SEEG) of the Institute of Ecology and the Environment (InEE)
• The French National Museum of Natural History, Paris (Thematic Action “Biodiversity and fossil”, “Geoarchaeology”, 2011, 2016)
• UMR Archaeozoology, archaeobotany: societies, practices and environments, including teams BEASTH, SAPAA and PRESAGE
• UMR 5608, Archaeological Studies and Research on Cultures, Spaces and Societies (TRACES), Toulouse

Temporary personnel provisioning

• The National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap)
• The Fyssen Foundation (Marie-Curie COFUND) funded the missions for Solange Rigaud

Other supports

1The French School in Athens (director: Dominique Mulliez, then A. Farnoux) kindly put the archaeological base of Ayios Tychonas and its infrastructures (vehicle, excavation material, stationery, namely) at our disposal, for storing and processing the finds and materials from the excavation.

2The Antiquities Department of the Republic of Cyprus (Director M. Hadjicosti, then co-directors: M. Solomidou-Ieromynidou and D. Pilides, then director Solomidou-Ieromynidou) granted the necessary authorizations for field operations. The Limassol Museum (M. Y. Violaris) looked after the scientific supervision of the excavation for Cyprus Antiquities and provided logistic support. Lefteris Charalambous, of the Antiquities Department of Cyprus, gave us advice for the temporary closing and protection of the site.

3The President of the townland of Ayios Tychonas provided running water at the site and allowed us to use it free throughout the excavation seasons.

4Ninety-one contributions to the field- and post-excavation work:

• Benjamin Albouy, Master’s 2 student, (Bordeaux University; season 2016)
• Lucie Amami, Archaeologist (season 2016)
• Georgia Antoniou, trainee at the National Antiquities Department of Cyprus (season 2012)
• Ophélie Armand, Archaeologist (season 2016)
• Pierre-Antoine Beauvais, Garduate, the Master and PhD student (Toulouse University, seasons 2014, 2015, 2016)
• Juliette Bertaut, Archaeologist with a Master’s 2 degree, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris (seasons 2015, 2016)
• François Briois, Lithic specialist and Director of the mission (2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016)
• Joséphine Caro, Post-graduate student, EHESS, UMR TRACES, Toulouse (season 2012)
• Isabelle Carrère, Engineer at EHESS, UMR TRACES, Toulouse (seasons 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014)
• Thomas Cucchi, CNRS Researcher, Archaezoology and morphometry, UMR AASPE, MNHN-CNRS (seasons 2011, 2012, 2015)
• Julie Daujat, PhD student, UMR Archaeozoology, archaeobotany, CNRS-INEE - National Museum of Natural History, Paris), and at the Aberdeen University, United Kingdom (seasons 2009, 2011)
• Tiphaine Dachy, PhD student, EHESS, UMR TRACES, Toulouse (season 2012)
• Nicolas Delsol, Archaeologist, Archeodunum, then Grand Toulouse (seasons 2011-2012)
• Ambre Di Pascale, PhD student (Montpellier University, season 2016)
• Caroline Douché, PhD student in archaeobotany, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, UMR AASPE, MNHN-CNRS (seasons 2014, 2015)
• Jessie Duval, Archaeologist, Tours (season 2016)
• Yodrik Franel, Archaeologist stratigrapher, Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives, Île-de-France, then Grand Ouest (seasons 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016)
• Rosalind Gillis, PhD then Post-doctoral researcher, archaeozoologist, UMR AASPE, MNHN-CNRS, Paris (seasons 2012, 2015)
• Sylvain Grosfillay, Archaeologist (season 2016)
• †Christiane Guilaine, Archeologist and logisticist, Toulouse (seasons 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014)
• Jean Guilaine, Archaeologist and Director of the mission (seasons 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2016)
• Rémi Hadad, PhD student in archaeology at the University of Paris-Ouest-Nanterre, UMR 7055, Prehistory and Technology and Department of Anthropology (seasons 2014, 2015)
• Anne-Cécile Haussonne, CNRS Engineer, administrator, UMR AASPE, MNHN-CNRS, Paris (season 2015)
• Bastien Jakob, PhD student, then Post-doc in African archaeology at Neuchâtel University, Switzerland (seasons 2014, 2015)
• Rana Khawam, Master’s 1 student, National Museum of Natural History, Paris (season 2015)
• Vasiliki Koutrafouri, PhD in Archaeology, Guest lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland: “Society of Antiquaries of Scotland” (season 2014)
• Lydie Mano, Master Student, National Museum of Natural History, Paris (season 2011)
• Chloé Martin, CNRS Research Engineer, UMS BBEES, CNRS – MNHN, Paris (seasons 2011, 2012)
• Caroline Masset, Master’s 2 student, (Bordeaux University, season 2016)
• Pantelitsa Mylona, Cypriot PhD student in geoarchaeology, National Museum of Natural History, Paris (seasons 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016)
• Irene Papadopoulou, Archaeologist in Cyrpus (seasons 2011, 2012, 2014)
• Andrea Parès, Doctoral degree in archaeobotany, National Museum of Natural History, Paris (UMR AASPE, season 2016)
• Maricela Puluc-Delsol, Archaeologist at « Archeodunum », Toulouse (season 2011)
• Solange Rigaud, CNRS Researcher, personal ornament specialist, UMR CIRHUS, New-York, USA, then UMR PACEA, Bordeaux (seasons 2014, 2015, 2016)
• Jérôme Robitaille, Master then PhD student, EHESS, Toulouse, UMR TRACES (seasons 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016)
• Etienne Roussée, Master’s 2 student, University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès (season 2015)
• Chloé Schmidt, Archaeologist with a Master’s 2 degree, Montpellier 3 University (season 2015)
• Nicolas Tardy, PhD student, University of Lyon II (season 2011)
• Margareta Tengberg-Mongne, Lecturer at Paris 1 University then Assistant Professor of the MNHN, UMR AASPE, CNRS-MNHN, Paris (season 2012)
• Régis Touquet, Archaeologist and topographer, Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives, Île-de-France (on the field during the seasons 2012, 2014; remote support by processing the topographic data on a daily basis during the seasons 2015 and 2016).
• Jean‑Denis Vigne, Archaeologist and director of the excavation (2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016)
• Julia Wattez, Geoarchaeology researcher, Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives, Île-de-France (season 2012)
• George Willcox, Archaeobotanist, CNRS Director of Research, Institute of Oriental Prehistory, UMR Archéorient, Lyon – Jalès (seasons 2011, 2012)
• Antoine Zazzo, CNRS Researcher, UMR AASPE, National Museum of Natural History (season 2012)

5Financial and material preparation of the excavation season in France were made by S. Chentout, K. Debue, A.-C. Haussonne, S. Hubert and M. Méziou (CNRS, UMR AASPE)

Visits of the site during excavation

• Lefteris Charalambous, Antiquities Department of Cyprus (season 2012)
• Polina Christofi, Antiquities Department of Cyprus, Erimi excavations (season 2012)
• Paul Croft, Archaeological Lemba project (season 2011)
• Alexandre Farnoux, Director of the French School in Athens (season 2012)
• Antoine Hermary, Professor at Provence University, director of the Amathonte Mission (season 2012)
• Constantina Ioannou, Limassol Museum (season 2012)
• Sotiris Hatzicharalambous, Antiquities Department of Cyprus (season 2012)
• Vasiliki Kassianidou, Professor at the University of Cyprus (seasons 2011, 2016),
• Alain Le Brun, Archaeologist CNRS, Khirokitia mission (season 2011)
• Odile Le Brun, Archaeologist CNRS, Khirokitia mission (seasons 2011, 2016)
• Eleni Luca, Limassol Museum (season 2012)
• Jean-Pierre Mahoué, French Cooperation and Cultural Action (French Institut of Cyprus; season 2014)
• Carole McCartney, Archaeologist at the Edinburgh and Cyprus Universities (seasons 2011, 2016),
• George Papasavvas, University of Cyprus (Nicosia; season 2011)
• Muge Şevketoglu, Nicosia University (season 2011)
• Ludovic Thély, scientific member of the French School in Athens, and his fieldwork team (season 2015)
• Yiannis Violaris, Director of Antiquities for the Limassol district (seasons 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016)

Visits for filming

• Jacques Mitsch (executive producer, director) worked on the site from May 17 to May 19, in order to co-produce a 90 minute documentary for Arte which will finally never exist.
• Marc Azéma (2011, 2012) then Stéphane Kowalczyk (2016), Passé Simple production film maker, filmed at the site between May 27 and 30 2016, in view of making a scientific film.

Edition

6Jill Cucchi then Louise Byrn and Victoria De Casteja made the English edition. We are grateful to the editors Paléorient and Gallia Préhistoire, as well as to their reviewers who provided helpful recommendations.