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Lesson 6.2: General

Lesson 6 Bibliography: The Early Minoan Period: The Tombs

P. P. Betancourt, “The Impact of Cycladic Settlers on Early Minoan Crete,” Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 3(2003) 3-12.

K. Branigan, The Tombs of Mesara (London 1970).

K. Branigan, Dancing with Death: Life and Death in Southern Crete c. 3000-2000 B.C. (Amsterdam 1993).

K. Branigan, “The Late Prepalatial Resurrected,” in O. Krzsyzkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren [BSA Studies 18] (London 2010) 25-32.

S. Déderix, A. Schmitt, and I. Crevecoeur, “Towards a Theoretical and Methodological Framework for the Study of Collective Burial Practices,” in A. Schmitt, S. Déderix, and I. Crevecoeur (eds.), Gathered in Death: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives on Collective Burial and Social Organization [Aegis 14] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2018) 21-40.

E. Hatzaki and P. S. Keswani, “Mortuary Practices and Ideology in Bronze Age – Early Iron Age Crete and Cyprus: Comparative Perspectives,” in G. Cadogan, M. Iacovou, K. Kopaka, and J. Whitley (eds.), Parallel Lives: Ancient Island Societies in Crete and Cyprus [BSA Studies 20] [London 2012] 307-330.

J. R. Hughey, P. Paschou, P. Drineas, D. Mastropaolo, D. M. Lotakis, P. A. Navas, M. Michalodimitrakis, J. A. Stamatoyannopoulos, and G. Stamatoyannopoulos, “A European Population in Minoan Bronze Age Crete,” Nature Communications 4:1861 doi: 10.1038/ncomms2871 (2013)

E. Karantzali, Le Bronze Ancien dans les Cyclades et en Crète [BAR-IS 631] (Oxford 1996).

C. Knappett, Aegean Bronze Age Art: Meaning in the Making (Cambridge 2020). [reviewed: BMCR 2021 01.09 (F. Blakolmer)]

B. Legarra Herrero, “The Minoan Fallacy: Cultural Diversity and Mortuary Behavior on Crete at the Beginning of the Bronze Age,” OJA 28(2009) 29-57.

B. Legarra Herrero, “The Secret Lives of the Early and Middle Minoan Tholos Cemeteries: Koumasa and Platanos,” in J. M. A. Murphy (ed.), Prehistoric Crete: Regional and Diachronic Studies on Mortuary Systems (Philadelphia 2011) 49-84.

B. Legarra Herrero, “The Construction, Deconstruction and Non-construction of Hierarchies in the Funerary Record of Prepalatial Crete,” in I. Schoep, P. Tomkins, and J. Driessen (eds.), Back to the Beginning: Reassessing Social and Political Complexity on Crete during the Early and Middle Bronze Age (Oxford 2012) 325-357.

B. Legarra Herrero, “101 Ways of Creating Collective Burials: The Exceptional Cretan Tombs in the Context of the 3rd Millennium BC Mediterranean,” in A. Schmitt, S. Déderix, and I. Crevecoeur (eds.), Gathered in Death: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives on Collective Burial and Social Organization [Aegis 14] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2018) 141-158.

J. M. A. Murphy, Changing Roles and Locations of Religious Practices in South Central Crete During the Pre-Palatial and Proto-Palatial Periods (Ph.D. thesis, University of Cincinnati 2003).

http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1068728120 

J. M. A. Murphy, “Landscape and Social Narratives: A Study of Regional Social Structures in Prepalatial Crete,” in J. M. A. Murphy (ed.), Prehistoric Crete: Regional and Diachronic Studies on Mortuary Systems (Philadelphia 2011) 23-48.

J. W. Myers, E. E. Myers, and G. Cadogan, The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete (Berkeley 1992).

Y. Papadatos, “Mortuary Variability, Social Differentiation and Ranking in Prepalatial Crete: The Evidence from the Cemetery of Phourni, Archanes,” in M. Relaki and Y. Papadatos (eds.), From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Society [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 12] (Oxford 2018) 96-114.

M. Relaki, Social Arenas in Minoan Crete: A Regional History of the Mesara from the Final Neolithic to the End of the Protopalatial Period (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Sheffield 2003).

M. Relaki, “Roots and Routes: Technologies of Life, Death, Community and Identity,” in M. Relaki and Y. Papadatos (eds.), From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Society [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 12] (Oxford 2018) 10-35.

A. Schmitt and S. Déderix, “What Defines a Collective Grave? Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives on Collective Burial Practices,” in A. Schmitt, S. Déderix, and I. Crevecoeur (eds.), Gathered in Death: Archaeological and Ethnological Perspectives on Collective Burial and Social Organization [Aegis 14] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2018) 195-

A.Schmitt and S. Déderix, “What is a Collective Burial? Proposal for a Paradigm Shift,” Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris 31(2019) 103-112.

A. J. Shapland, Over the Horizon: Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete (PhD dissertation, University College London 2009).

S. Triantaphyllou, “Managing with Death in Prepalatial Crete: The Evidence of the Human Remains,” in M. Relaki and Y. Papadatos (eds.), From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Society [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 12] (Oxford 2018) 1-26.

S. Triantaphyllou, E. Nikita, and T. Kador, “Exploring Mobility Patterns and Biological Affinities in the Southern Aegean: First Insights from Early Bronze Age Eastern Crete,” BSA 110(2015) 3-25.

G. Vavouranakis, Funerary Landscapes East of Lasithi, Crete, in the Bronze Age [BAR-IS 1606] (Oxford 2007).

L. V. Watrous, “Review of Aegean Prehistory III: Crete from Earliest Prehistory through the Protopalatial Period,” AJA 98(1993) 695-753.

L. V. Watrous, Crete from Earliest Prehistory through the Protopalatial Period and “Addendum: 1994-1999,” in T. Cullen (ed.), Aegean Prehistory: A Review (Boston 2001) 157-215 and 216-223.

T. M. Whitelaw, “The Settlement of Fournou Korifi Myrtos and Aspects of Early Minoan Social Organization,” in O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon (eds.), Minoan Society (Bristol 1983) 323-345.

D. Wilson, “Early Prepalatial Crete,” in C. W. Shelmerdine (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age (Cambridge 2008) 77-104.


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