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John Langdon Caskey (born December 7, 1908; died December 4, 1981) was an American classical archaeologist known for his excavations in Greece, in particular the Cyclades, Keos, and at ancient Lerna in Greece.

Early Life and Education
Caskey was the son of Lacey D. Caskey, a curator of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. J. L. Caskey was educated at Yale (B.A. in 1931) and the University of Cincinnati (Ph.D. 1939), where he was a student of Carl Blegen.

Caskey was married to fellow Cincinnati student Elizabeth Gwyn Caskey on August 4, 1936, in New York City.

Scholarly Career
Caskey's fieldwork in mainland Greece and in the Aegean led to important conclusions. His work at ancient Lerna Caskey is credited with the discovery of the House of the Tiles at Lerna, a site that shed important light on Early Helladic culture in Greece and which numbers among the most important archaeological sites of prehistoric Greece.

Caskey first became assistant director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and then Director until 1959. He was the chairperson of the University of Cincinnati Classics department from 1959 to 1972.

In 1980 he was awarded the gold medal by the Archaeological Institute of America.

Caskey's death in 1981 was the result of Lou Gehrig's Disease.

Publications

 * John L. and Elizabeth G. Caskey, 1960. "The Earliest Settlements at Eutresis, Supplementary Excavations, 1958," Hesperia 29:126-167.

Necrology

 * "John Langdon Caskey, Professor of Archeology." New York Times December 8, 1981
 * Machteld J. Mellink. "John Langdon Caskey (1908-1981)." American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 86, No. 2 (Apr., 1982), p. 317