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Lesson 10.9: Burial Customs

Lesson 10 Bibliography: Middle Minoan Crete

L. Alberti, “Costumi funerari Medio Minoici a Cnosso: la necropoli di Mavro Spelio,” SMEA 43(2001) 163-187.

L. Alberti, “Middle Minoan III Burial Customs at Knossos: A Piannissimo Intermezzo?,” in C. F. Macdonald and C. Knappett (eds.), INTERMEZZO. Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete [BSA Studies 21] (London 2013) 47-55.

L. Alberti, “Mesominoïka taphika ethima sten Knoso: E nekropole tou Mavrou Spelaiou,” in Pepragmena tou Θ' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2006) A2: 259-269.

S. Antonello, “The Multi-chamber Tombs in Mavro Spilio: A Cypriot Origin?,” in K. Zebrowska, A. Ulanowska, and K. Lewartowski (eds.), Sympozjum Egejskie: Papers in Aegean Archaeology 1 (Warsaw 2017) 11-18.

C. Baurain, “Les nécropoles de Malia,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), THANATOS: Les coutumes funéraires en Égée à l'Age du Bronze [Aegaeum 1] (Liège 1987) 61-72.

P. P. Betancourt, “Tomb 4 at Pseira: Evidence for Minoan Social Practices,” in J. M. A. Murphy, Prehistoric Crete: Regional and Diachronic Studies on Mortuary Systems (Philadelphia 2011) 85-102.

P. P. Betancourt, C. Davaras, H. M. C. Dierckx, S. C. Ferrence, J. Hickman, P. Karkanas, P. J. P. McGeorge, J. D. Muhly, D. S. Reese, E. Stavropodi, L. Langford-Verstegen, and S. Chlouveraki, “Excavations in the Hagios Charalambos Cave: A Preliminary Report,” Hesperia 77(2008) 539-605.

P. P. Betancourt, D. S. Reese, L. L. Verstegen, and S. C. Ferrence, “Feasts for the Dead: Evidence from the Ossuary at Hagios Charlambos,” in L. A. Hitchcock, R. Laffineur, and J. Crowley (eds.), DAIS: The Aegean Feast [Aegaeum 29] (Liège/Austin 2008) 161-165.

G. Cadogan, “A Power House of the Dead: The Functions and Long Life of the Tomb at Myrtos-Pyrgos,” in J. M. A. Murphy (ed.), Prehistoric Crete: Regional and Diachronic Studies on Mortuary Systems (Philadelphia 2011) 103-117.

M. Cultraro, “Il tipo di tomba ipogeica a grotticella artificiale in ambito egeo: Alcune osservazioni,” in L’ipogeismo nel Mediterraneo (Sassari 2000) 473-499.

M. Cultraro, “La brochetta dei vivi per la sete dei morti: riconsiderazione delle camerette a Sud della grande tholos di Haghia Triada,” Pepragmena tou H' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A1: 309-326.

P. Demargne, Fouilles exécutées à Mallia. Exploration des nécropoles (1921-1933) I [Études Crétoises 7] (Paris 1945).

E. J. Forsdyke, “The Mavro Spelio Cemetery at Knossos,” BSA 28(1927) 243-296.

E. Gerontakou, “Dyo Mesominoïkoi apothetes sto nekrotapheio tou Platanou,” in A. Vlachopoulos and K. Birtacha (eds.), ARGONAUTIS: Timetikos tomos yia ton Kathegete Christo G. Douma apo tous mathetes tou sto Panepistimio Athenon (1980-2000) (Athens 2003) 303-330.

L. Girella, “La morte ineguale. Per una lettura delle evidenze funerarie nel Medio Minoico IIIA Creta,” ASAtene 81(2003) 251-301.

L. Girella, “Exhuming an Excavation: Preliminary Notes on the Use of the Kamilari Tholos Tomb in Middle Minoan III,” in C. F. Macdonald and C. Knappett (eds.), INTERMEZZO. Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete [BSA Studies 21] (London 2013) 149-159.

L. Girella, “When Diversity Matters: Exploring Funerary Evidence in Middle Minoan III Crete,” SMEA NS 1(2015) 117-136.

L. Girella, “Variables and Diachronic Diversities in the Funerary Remains of the Kamilari Tholos Tombs,” in M. Relaki and Y. Papadatos (eds.), From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Society [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 12] (Oxford 2018) 115-140.

L. Girella and S. Todaro, “Secondary Burials and the Construction of Group Identities in Crete between the Second Half of the 4th and 2nd Millennia BC,” in M. Mina, S. Triantaphyllou, and Y. Papadatos (eds.), An Archaeology of Prehistoric Bodies and Embodied Identities in the Eastern Mediterranean (Oxford 2016) 171-179.

L. Goodison and C. Guarita, “A New Catalogue of the Mesara-Type Tombs,” SMEA 47(2005) 171-212.

E. Hall, Excavations in Eastern Crete: Sphoungaras (Philadelphia 1912).

Y. Hamilakis, “The ‘Emergence of the Individual’ Revisited: Memory and Transcorporeality in the Mortuary Landscapes of Bronze Age Crete,” in M. Relaki and Y. Papadatos (eds.), From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Society [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 12] (Oxford 2018) 314-331.

E. Hatzaki, “Visible and Invisible Death. Shifting Patterns in the Burial Customs of Bronze Age Crete,” in M. Relaki and Y. Papadatos (eds.), From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Society [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 12] (Oxford 2018) 190-209.

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.

S. Hood, “The Middle Minoan Cemetery on Ailias at Knossos,” in O. Krzsyzkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren [BSA Studies 18] (London 2010) 161-168.

S. Hood, G. Huxley, and N. K. Sandars, “A Minoan Cemetery on Upper Gypsades,” BSA 53-54(1958-59) 194-262.

B. Legarra Herrero, Mortuary Behaviour and Social Organization in Pre- and Protopalatial Crete (Ph.D. dissertation, University College, London 2007).

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

B. Legarra Herrero, “A Square Tomb with a Round Soul. The Myrtos-Pyrgos Tomb in the Funerary Context of Middle Bronze Age Crete,” in C. F. Macdonald, E. Hatzaki, and S. Andreou (eds.), The Great Islands: Studies of Crete and Cyprus Presented to Gerald Cadogan (Athens 2015) 76-81.

B. Legarra Herrero, “Bodies in a Pickle: Burial Jars, Individualism and Group Identities in Middle Minoan Crete,” in M. Mina, S. Triantaphyllou, and Y. Papadatos (eds.), An Archaeology of Prehistoric Bodies and Embodied Entities in the Eastern Mediterranean (Oxford 2016) 180-188.

D. Levi, “La tomba a tholos di Kamilari presso a Festòs,” ASAtene 23-24(1961-62) 7-148.

C. Maggidis, “Burial Building 19, Phourni (Archanes): Variety and Originality in MM I Burial Architecture,” in Pepragmena tou Z' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Rethymno 1995) A2: 561-576.

C. Maggidis, “From Polis to Necropolis: Social Ranking from Architectural and Mortuary Evidence in the Minoan Cemetery at Phourni, Archanes,” in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 1] (Sheffield 1998) 87-102.

P. McGeorge, “Intramural Infant Burials in the Aegean Bronze Age: Refections on Symbolism and Eschatology with Particular Reference to Crete,” in O. Henry (ed.), Le mort dans la ville: Pratiques, contextes et impacts des inhumations intra-muros en Anatolie, du début de l’Âge du Bronze à l’époque romaine (Istanbul 2013) 1-19.

M. Miller, The Funerary Landscape at Knossos: A Diachronic Study of Minoan Burial Customs with Special Reference to the Warrior Graves [BAR-IS 2201] (Oxford 2011).

S. Müller Celka, “L’ensemble architectural de Chrysolakkos à Malia: une mise à jour,” in K. Müller, B. Schiller, et al., Von Kreta nach Kuba: Gedankschrift zu Ehren des Berliner Archäologen Veit Stürmer (Berlin 2018) 163-180.

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).

J. Murphy, “Individual, Household, and Community after Death in Prepalatial and Protopalatial South-central Crete,” in K. T. Glowacki and N. Vogeikoff-Brogan (eds.), STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete [Hesperia Supplement 44] (Princeton 2011) 51-58.

G. de Pierpont, “Réflexions sur la déstination des édifices de Chrysolakkos,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), THANATOS:  Les coutûmes funéraires en Égée à l'âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 1] (Liège 1987) 79-94.

I. Pini, Beiträge zur minoischen Gräberkunde (Wiesbaden 1968).

L. Preston, “The Middle Minoan III Funerary Landscape at Knossos,” in C. F. Macdonald and C. Knappett (eds.), INTERMEZZO. Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete [BSA Studies 21] (London 2013) 57-70.

B. Rutkowski, “The Origin of the Minoan Coffin,” BSA 63(1968) 219-227.

I. Schoep and P. Tomkins, “’Death Is Not the End’: Tracing the Manipulation of Bodies and Other Materials in the Early and Middle Minoan Cemetery at Sissi,” in A. Dakouri-Hild and M. J. Boyd (eds.), Staging Death: Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Aegean (Berlin 2016) 227-250.

R. Seager, The Cemetery of Pachyammos, Crete (Philadelphia 1916).

R. Treuil, “Entre morts et vivants à Malia. La ‘zone des nécropoles’ et les quartiers d’habitation,” in I. Bradfer, B. Detournay, and R. Laffineur (eds.), KRES TECHNITES: L’artisan crétois: Recueil d’articles en l’honneur de Jean-Claude Poursat, publié à l’occasion des 40 ans de la découverte du Quartier Mu [Aegaeum 26] (Liège/Austin 2005) 209-220.

M. Tsipopoulou, “Burial Containers in the Pre- and Proto-Palatial Cemetery of Petras, Siteia,” in B. Davis and R. Laffineur (eds.), NEOTEROS. Studies in Bronze Age Aegean Art and Archaeology in Honor of Professor John G. Younger on the Occasion of His Retirement [Aegaeum 44] (Louvain/Liège 2020) 251-260.

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

G. Vavouranakis, “Funerary Pithoi in Bronze Age Crete: Their Introduction and Significance at the Threshold of Minoan Palatial Society,” AJA 118(2014) 197-222.

G. Vavouranakis, “A Posthumanocentric Approach to Funerary Ritual and its Sociohistorical Significance: The Early and Middle Bronze Age Tholos Tombs at Apesokari, Crete,” in A. Dakouri-Hild and M. J. Boyd (eds.), Staging Death: Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Aegean (Berlin 2016) 253-274.

G. Vavouranakis, “Liquid Consumption and the Mechanics of Ritual in Late Prepalatial and Old Palace Crete,” in B. Davis and R. Laffineur (eds.), NEOTEROS. Studies in Bronze Age Aegean Art and Archaeology in Honor of Professor John G. Younger on the Occasion of His Retirement [Aegaeum 44] (Louvain/Liège 2020) 271-282.


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