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Terrestrial Fauna

K-P. Amberger, Neue Tierknochenfunde aus der Magula Pevkakia in Thessalien II: Die Wiederkäuer (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Munich 1979).

C. Becker, Kastanas: Die Tierknochenfunde (Berlin 1986).

C. Becker, “Die Tierknochenfunde von der Platia Magoula Zarkou: Neue Untersuchungen zu Haustierhaltung, Jagd und Rohstoffverwendung im neolithisch-bronzezeitlichen Thessalien," PZ 66(1991) 14-78.

C. Becker, “The Middle Neolithic and the Platia Magoula Zarkou – A Review of Current Archaeozoological Research in Thessaly (Greece),” Anthropozoologica 30(1999) 3-22.

J. Boessneck and A. von den Driesch, "Ein Löwenfund aus Tiryns," AA (1979) 447-449.

J. Boessneck and A. von den Driesch, "Ein Beleg für das Vorkommen des Löwen auf

dem Peloponnes in 'herakleischer' Zeit," AA (1981) 257-258.

J. Boessneck and A. von den Driesch, "Die zoologische Dokumentation der Reste von vier Pferden und einem Hund aus einem mykenischen Schachtgrab in Kokla bei Argos (Peloponnes)," Spixiana 7:3 (1984) 327-333.

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L. P. Day, "Dog Burials in the Greek World," AJA 88(1984) 21-32.

A. von den Driesch, "Haus- und Jagdtiere im vorgeschichtlichen Thessalien," PZ 62(1987) 1-21.

A. von den Driesch, "Archäozoologische Untersuchungen an Tierknochen aus dem dritten und ersten vorchristlichen Jahrtausend vom Besik-Yassitepe, Westtürkei," Studia Troica 9(1999) 439-474.

A. von den Driesch and J. Boessneck, "Die Tierreste von der mykenischen Burg Tiryns bei Nauplion (Peloponnes), Tiryns XI (Mainz 1990) 87-164.

M. A. Fillios, Measuring Complexity in Early Bronze Age Greece: The Pig as a Proxy Indicator of Socio-economic Structures [BAR-IS 1722] (Oxford 2007).

G. Forstenpointner, "Stierspiel oder Bocksgesang? Archäozoologische Aspekte zur Interpretation des Hornviehs als Opfertier in der Ägäis," in F. Blakolmer (ed.), Österreichische Forschungen zur ägäischen Bronzezeit 1998 (Vienna 2000) 51-68.

N.-G. Gejvall, Lerna I: The Fauna (Princeton 1969).

P. Halstead, "Man and Other Animals in Later Greek Prehistory," BSA 82(1987) 71-83.

P. Halstead, "Lost Sheep? On the Linear B Evidence for Breeding Flocks at Mycenaean Knossos and Pylos," Minos 25-26(1990-91) 343-365.

P. Halstead, "Linear B Evidence for the Management of Sheep Breeding at Knossos: Production Targets and Deficits in the KN Dl(1) and Do Sets," Minos 31-32(1996-1997) [1998] 187-199.

P. Halstead, "Missing Sheep: On the Meaning and Wider Significance of O in Knossos Sheep Records," BSA 94(1999) 145-166.

P. Halstead, “Texts and Bones: Contrasting Linear B and Archaeological Evidence for Animal Exploitation in Mycenaean Southern Greece,” in E. Kotjabopoulou, Y. Hamilakis, P. Halstead, C. Gamble, and P. Elefanti (eds.), Zooarchaeology in Greece: Recent Advances [BSA Studies 9] (London 2003) 257-261.

P. Halstead, “Carcasses and Commensality: Investigating the Social Context of Meat Consumption in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Greece,” in C. Mee and J. Renard (eds.), Cooking Up the Past: Food and Culinary Practices in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean (Oxford 2007) 25-48.

Y. Hamilakis, "A Footnote on the Archaeology of Power: Animal Bones from a Mycenaean Chamber Tomb at Galatas, NE Peloponnese," BSA 91(1996) 153-166.

Y. Hamilakis, "Cretan Pleistocene Fauna and Archaeological Remains: The Evidence from Sentoni Cave (Zoniana, Rethymnon)," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 231-239.

Y. Hamilakis, “Zooarchaeology of Neolithic Theopetra – Preliminary Report,” in N. Kyparissi-Apostolika (ed.), Theopetra Cave: Twelve Years of Excavation and Research 1987-1998 (Athens 2000) 263-268.

Y. Hamilakis, “The Sacred Geography of Hunting: Wild Animals, Social Power, and Gender in Early Farming Societies,” in E. Kotjabopoulou, Y. Hamilakis, P. Halstead, C. Gamble, and P. Elefanti (eds.), Zooarchaeology in Greece: Recent Advances [BSA Studies 9] (London 2003) 239-247.

B. Hesse and D. Perkins, Jr., "Faunal Remains from Karatas-Semayük in Southwest Anatolia: An Interim Report," JFA 1(1974) 149-160.

G. Hinz, Neue Tierknochenfunde aus der Magula Pevkakia in Thessalien I: Die Nichtwiederkäuer (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Munich 1979).

R. N. L. B. Hubbard, "Fallow Deer in Prehistoric Greece, and the Analogy between Faunal Spectra and Pollen Analyses," Antiquity 69(1995) 527-538.

V. Isaakidou, “Cooking in the Labyrinth: Exploring “Cuisine” at Bronze Age Knossos,” in C. Mee and J. Renard (eds.), Cooking Up the Past: Food and Culinary Practices in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean (Oxford 2007) 5-24.

V. Isaakidou, “Worked and Utilised Bone and Antler: Practical and Cultural Rationales for the Selection of Raw Materials,” in E. Kotjabopoulou, Y. Hamilakis, P. Halstead, C. Gamble, and P. Elefanti (eds.), Zooarchaeology in Greece: Recent Advances [BSA Studies 9] (London 2003) 233-238.

M. R. Jarman, "Human Influence in the Development of the Cretan Mammalian Fauna," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 211-229.

B. Jordan, Tierknochenfunde aus der Magula Pevkakia in Thessalien (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Munich 1975).

W. E. Klippel and L. M. Snyder, "Dark-Age Fauna from Kavousi, Crete: The Vertebrates from the 1987 and 1988 Excavations," Hesperia 60(1991) 179-186.

E. Kotjabopoulou, Y. Hamilakis, P. Halstead, C. Gamble, and P. Elefanti (eds.), Zooarchaeology in Greece: Recent Advances [BSA Studies 9] (London 2003).

E. Lax and T. F. Strasser, "Early Holocene Extinctions on Crete: The Search for the Cause," JMA 5(1992) 203-224.

F. Mavridis, “Early Island Archaeology and the Extinction of Endemic Fauna in the Eastern Mediterranean: Problems of Interpretation and Methodology,” in E. Kotjabopoulou, Y. Hamilakis, P. Halstead, C. Gamble, and P. Elefanti (eds.), Zooarchaeology in Greece: Recent Advances [BSA Studies 9] (London 2003) 65-74.

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S. Newton, “The Mesolithic Fauna from Theopetra Cave,” in N. Galanidou and C. Perlès (eds.), The Greek Mesolithic: Problems and Perspectives [BSA Studies 10] (London 2003) 199-205.

G. Nobis, "Der 'Minotaurus' von Knossos auf Kreta - im Lichte moderner archäozoologischer Forschung," Tier und Museum 2:1(1990) 15-19.

G. Nobis, "Archäozoologische Untersuchungen von Tierresten aus dem 'Palast des Nestor' bei Pylos in Messenien/SW-Peloponnes," ZfA 27(1993) 151-173.

G. Nobis, "Zur antiken Wild- und Haustierfauna Kretas - nach Studien an Tierresten aus den archäologischen Grabungen Poros bei Iraklion und Eleftherna bei Arkadi," Tier und Museum 3:4(1993) 109-120.

J. Ondrias, “The Taxonomy and Geographical Distribution of the Rodents of Greece,” Saügetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14(1966) 1-136.

A. Papamanoli-Guest, "Hunting and Trapping in Prehistoric Crete: A Proposal for Ethnoarchaeological Research," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 337-349.

S. Payne, “Faunal Evidence for Environmental/Climatic Change at Franchthi Cave (Southern Argolid, Greece), 25000 BP to 5000 BP – Preliminary Results,” in J. L. Bintliff and W. Van Zeist (eds.), Paleoclimates, Palaeoenvironments and Human Communities in the Eastern Mediterranean Region in Later Prehistory [BAR-IS 133] (Oxford 1982) 133-136.

S. Payne, "Zoo-archaeology in Greece: A Reader's Guide," in N. C. Wilkie and W. D. E. Coulson (eds.), Contributions to Aegean Archaeology (Minneapolis 1985) 211-244.

S. Payne, “The Small Mammals,” in J. W. and M. C. Shaw (eds.), Kommos I: The Kommos Region and the Houses of the Minoan Town. Part 1: The Kommos Region, Ecology, and Minoan Industries (Princeton 1995) 278-291.

S. Payne and J. W. F. Reumer, “Notes on the Sorieidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) from Crete II: The Shrew Remains from Minoan and Classical Kommos,” Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 37(1986) 173-182.

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R. Porter, "The Cretan Wild Goat (Capra aegagrus cretica) and the 'Theran Antelopes'," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 295-315.

D. S. Reese, "Recent and Fossil Invertebrates with a Note on the Nature of the MH I Fauna," in W. A. McDonald and N. C. Wilkie (eds.), Excavations at Nichoria in Southwest Greece II: The Bronze Age Occupation (Minneapolis 1992) 770-778.

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D. S. Reese, “Faunal Remains from Late Helladic Lerna (Argolid, Greece),” Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 8(2008) 5-25.

D. S. Reese, G. Belluomini, and M. Ikeya, "Absolute Dates for the Pleistocene Fauna of Crete," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 47-51.

D. S. Reese, M. J. Rose, and S. Payne, "The Minoan Fauna," in J. W. and M. C. Shaw (eds.), Kommos I: The Kommos Region and the Houses of the Minoan Town. Part 1: The Kommos Region, Ecology, and Minoan Industries (Princeton 1995) 163-291.

D. Ruscillo (ed.), Recent Advances in Ageing and Sexing Animal Bone (Oxford 2006).

D. Ruscillo, “Faunal Remains and Murex Dye Production,” in J. W. and M. C. Shaw (eds.), Kommos V: The Monumental Buildings at Kommos (Princeton 2006) 776-840.

R. E. Sloan and M. A. Duncan, "Zooarchaeology at Nichoria," in G. Rapp, Jr. and S. E. Aschenbrenner (eds.), Excavations at Nichoria in Southwest Greece I: Site, Environs, and Techniques (Minneapolis 1978) 60-77.

L. M. Snyder and W. E. Klippel, "The Cretan Badger (Meles meles) as a Food Resource at Late Bronze/Early Iron Age Kavousi-Kastro," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 283-293.

L. M. Snyder and W. E. Klippel, “Harvest Profiles, Domestic Ovicaprines, and Bronze Age Crete,” in S. Pike and S. Gitin (eds.), The Practical Impact of Science on Near Eastern and Aegean Archaeology (London 2000) 53-61.

L. M. Snyder and W. E. Klippel, “From Lerna to Kastro: Further Thoughts on Dogs as Food in Ancient Greece: Perceptions, Prejudices and Reinvestigations,” in E. Kotjabopoulou, Y. Hamilakis, P. Halstead, C. Gamble, and P. Elefanti (eds.), Zooarchaeology in Greece: Recent Advances [BSA Studies 9] (London 2003) 221-232.

P. Y. Sondaar, M. D. Dermitzakis, and J. de Vos, "The Palaeogeography and Faunal Evolution of the Land Mammals of Crete," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 61-67.

C. Sorrentino, "Poliochni: il materiale faunistico," in C. G. Doumas and V. La Rosa (eds.), E Poliochne kai e Proïme Epoche tou Chalkou sto Boreio Aigaio (Athens 1997) 157-167.

C. Trantalidou, "Animals and Human Diet in the Prehistoric Aegean," in TAW III.2(1990) 392-405.

E. Tsoukala, "The Animal Bones from Smari: A Preliminary Report," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 273-275.

J. Vanschoonwinkel, "Les animaux dans l'art minoen," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 351-412.

C. Walker, "Bones from Palaikastro Building I: A Preliminary Report," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 277-281.

B. Wilkins, "The Fauna from Italian Excavations on Crete," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 241-261.

N. Winder, “A Multi-dimensional Approach to the Animal Bone Data,” in C. Renfrew (ed.), Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos 1974-77 [BSA Supplementary Vol. 42] (London 2007) 465-484.

E. Yannouli, "Dimitra, A Neolithic and Late Bronze Age Village in Northern Greece: The Faunal Remains," in D. Grammenos (ed.), Neolithike Makedonia (Athens 1997)  101-127.

E. Yannouli, “Non-domestic Carnivores in Greek Prehistory: A Review,” in E. Kotjabopoulou, Y. Hamilakis, P. Halstead, C. Gamble, and P. Elefanti (eds.), Zooarchaeology in Greece: Recent Advances [BSA Studies 9] (London 2003) 175-192.