Paul Åström (January 15, 1929 – October 4, 2008) was a Swedish archaeologist and classical scholar.
His dissertation was called The Middle Cypriote Bronze Age and dealt mostly with the ceramics of that time period.
He was dean of the historical-philosophical section 1974-1980 and for the Faculty of Humanities 1975-1980 prior to his retirement from the university in 1993.
[1] Åström participated in a number of excavations, including in Turkish Labranda in 1950, in Kalopsida and Agios Iacovos in Cyprus in 1959, in Dendra on several occasions during the 1960s and 1980s and in San Giovenale in 1967 and 1969.
He headed the Swedish part of the Greek-Swedish excavations at Midea in Argolis (1983-1999) and conducted excavations in Dendra together with Greek archaeologist Nicoletta Divari-Valakou, Head of the Archaeological Sites Department, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and at Hala Sultan Tekke, site of one of the Late Bronze Age biggest harbours in Cyprus.