Education
Uppsala University.
anthropologist archaeologist art historian university professor
Uppsala University.
From 1927 until 1931 Gjerstad carried out excavations on Cyprus. From 1935 until 1940, Gjerstad served as director the Swedish Institute at Rome. When Gjerstad left Rome in 1940, he assumed the position of Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Lund University.
He was a pioneer in the study of Cypriot Bichrome ware.
A street has been named after him in Larnaca, Cyprus. (lieutenant is adjacent to the Bamboula archaeological site of Kition).
German Archaeological Institute. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.