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Declaration of authorshipI, Samuel Andrew Hardy, hereby declare that:This thesis and the work presented in it are my own and have been generated by me as a result of my own original research.I confirm that:This thesis has not been and will not be submitted, in whole or in part, to another university forthe award of any other degree.No material has been or will be submitted as part of required coursework at this or any otheruniversity.No material has resulted from collaboration with others, except as specified in theacknowledgements and text.Where I have consulted the published work of others, this has always been clearly attributed.Where I have quoted from the work of others, the source has always been clearly given.I have acknowledged all main sources of help.The thesis does not exceed the permitted 80,000-word limit.Parts of this work have been published as:Hardy, S A. Forthcoming: “Destruction, theft and rescue of archaeological artefacts in Cyprus,1963-1974: From the intercommunal conflict until the foreign invasions”. In Nys, K and Jacobs,A, (Eds.).
Cypriot material culture studies: From picrolite carving to proskynetaria. Proceedings of the 8
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Annual Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology Conference held in memory of Paul Åström,at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) from 27
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. Göteborg: PaulÅströms Förlag.Signed: SHardyDate: 30
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