Carole McCartney (1965 – 13 March 2021) was a Pittsburgh-born Cypriot archeologist.
[1] She studied archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, finishing her masters (1989) and her PhD (1996) with her doctoral thesis titled, The Analysis of Variability in Simple Core Technologies: Case Studies of Chipped Stone Technology in Post-PPN Assemblages from the Levant.
As she was a worldwide leading expert on the study of lithics, she made important finds and identifications from sites in the eastern Mediterranean region.
[2] McCartney first traveled to Cyprus in 1987, and later acquired Cypriot citizenship.
[2][1] McCartney published more than 25 singled-authored papers, and 25 more in joint efforts with other authors.