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Lesson 10.4: Site Reports

Lesson 10 Bibliography: Middle Minoan Crete

M-C. Amouretti, Fouilles exécutées à Mallia: Le centre politique II. La Crypte Hypostyle (1957-1962) [Études Crétoises 18] (Paris 1970).

M. Andreadaki-Vlasaki, "Craftsmanship at MM Khamalevri in Rethymnon," in R. Laffineur and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), TEXNH: Craftsmen, Craftswomen and Craftsmanship in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 16] (Liège/Austin 1997) 37-44.

M. Andreadaki-Vlasaki, “To ergo tes KE’ Ephoreias Proïstorikon kai Klasikon Archaioteton kata ta ete 2004-2008,” in M. Andrianakis and I. Tzachili (eds.), Archaiologiko Ergo Kretes 1[2008] (Rethymno 2010) 16-33, esp. 21-22. 

M. Andrianakis and I. Tzachili (eds.), Archaiologiko Ergo Kretes 1[2008] (Rethymno 2010).

M. Andrianakis, P. Varthalitou, and I. Tzachili (eds.), Archaiologiko Ergo Kretes 2[2010] (Rethymno 2012).

P. P. Betancourt, “Trade and Interconnections in Lasithi between EM II and MM I, the Evidence from the Ayios Charalambos Cave,” 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) 184-194.

P. P. Betancourt, T. M. Brogan, V. Apostolakou, and A. Koh, “The Organization of Minoan Manufacturing,” Kretika Chronika 34(2014) 89-96.

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.

N. Bonacasa, “Patrikies - una stazione medio-minoica fra Haghia Triada e Festos,” ASAtene 45-46 (1967-68) 7-54.

G. Cadogan, “What Happened at the Old Palace of Knossos?,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 71-73.

G. Cadogan, “Myrtos: From Phournou Koryphi to Pyrgos,” in K. T. Glowacki and N. Vogeiko

ff-Brogan (eds.), STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete [Hesperia Supplement 44] (Princeton 2011) 39-49.

I. Caloi, “What Relationship with the First Palace of Phaistos? The Funerary Complexes of Kamilari and Ayia Triada in the Protopalatial World,” in G. Vavouranakis, K. Kopanias, and C. Kanellopoulos (eds.), Popular Religion and Ritual in Prehistoric and Ancient Greece and the East Mediterranean (Oxford 2018) 11-18.

F. Carinci, “Per una rilettura ‘funzionale’ dell’ala sud-occidentale del Palazzo di Festòs: il caso dei vani IL-XXVII/XXVIII,” Creta Antica 12(2011) 17-125.

F. Carinci and V. La Rosa, “Revisioni festie,” Creta Antica 8(2007) 11-119.

F. Carinci and V. La Rosa, “A New Middle Minoan IIIA Ceremonial Building and the So-called ‘New Era’ at Phaistos,” in C. F. Macdonald and C. Knappett (eds.), INTERMEZZO. Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete [BSA Studies 21] (London 2013) 107-121.

E. A. and H. W. Catling and D. Smyth, “Knossos 1975: Middle Minoan III and Late Minoan I Houses by the Acropolis,” BSA 74(1979) 1-80.

D. Chatzi-Vallianou, “Smari Pediados. Ena apomonomeno kentro Ysterominoïkou Protoellenikou politismou sten Kreten,” AAA 13:1(1980) 20-60.

D. Chatzi-Vallianou, “The Acropolis of Smari: Homeric Lyktos,” Creta Antica 17(2016) 219-272.

M. Civitillo and B. Greco, “Il complesso protopalaziale di Apodoulou Amariou: riflessioni preliminari,” ASAtene 81(2003) [2005] 769-798.

P. Darcque, “Couches de destruction et remblais de l’âge du Bronze à Malia (Crète),” in K. Müller, B. Schiller, et al., Von Kreta nach Kuba: Gedankschrift zu Ehren des Berliner Archäologen Veit Stürmer (Berlin 2018) 59-74.

C. Davaras, “The Oval House at Chamaizi Reconsidered,” AAA 5(1972) 283-288.

P. M. Day and D. E. Wilson, “Landscapes of Memory, Craft and Power in Prepalatial and Protopalatial Knossos," in Y. Hamilakis (ed.), Labyrinth Revisited: Rethinking ‘Minoan’ Archaeology (Oxford 2002) 143-166.

B. Detournay, J-C. Poursat, and F. Vandenabeele, Fouilles Exécutées à Mallia: Le quartier Mu. II: Vases de pierre et de métal, vannerie, figurines et reliefs d'applique, éléments de parure et de decoration, armes, sceaux et empreintes (Paris 1980).

N. Dimopoulou, “Archaiologikes eideseis apo ten Pediada,” Lyktos 2(1986-87) 30-41.

E. Fiandra, “I periodi struttivi del primo palazzo di Festós,” Kretika Chronika 15-16(1961-62) 112-126.

L. Girella, “Evidence for Middle Minoan III Occupation at Ayia Triada,” in C. F. Macdonald and C. Knappett (eds.), INTERMEZZO. Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete [BSA Studies 21] (London 2013) 123-135.

L. Girella and I. Caloi, Kamilari. Una necropoli di tombe a tholos nella Messarà (Creta) [Monografie della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente 29] (Athens 2019).

G. Godart and Y. Tzedakis, “Les recherches à Apodoulou,” in Pepragmena tou Z' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Athens 1995) I: 353-358.

A. Guest-Papamanoli and A. Lambraki, “Les grottes de Lera et de l’Arkoudia en Crète occidentale aux époques préhistoriques,” ArchDelt 31A(1976) 178-293.

B. J. Hayden, Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete 1: Catalogue of Pottery from the Bronze and Early Iron Age Settlement of Vrokastro in the Collections of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Archaeological Museum, Herakleion, Crete [University Museum Monograph 113] (Philadelphia 2003).

S. Jusseret and M. Sintubin, Minoan Earthquakes: Breaking the Myth through Interdisciplinarity (Louvain-la-Neuve 2017).

A. Kanta, “Monastiraki and Phaistos, Elements of Protopalatial History,” in P. P. Betancourt, V. Karageorghis, R. Laffineur, and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), MELETEMATA: Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His 65th Year [Aegaeum 20] (Liège/Austin 1999) 387-393.

A. Kanta and M. Marazzi (eds.), Monastiraki I (Naples 2006).

P. Karanastasi, A. Tsigounaki, and Ch. Tsigonaki (eds.), Archaiologiko Ergo Kretes 3[2013] (Rethymno 2015).

A. Karetsou, “The Middle Minoan III Building at Alonaki, Juktas,” in C. F. Macdonald and C. Knappett (eds.), INTERMEZZO. Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete [BSA Studies 21] (London 2013) 71-91.

C. Knappett and T. Cunningham, Palaikastro Block M: The Proto- and Neopalatial Town [BSA Supplemtary Volume 47] (London 2012).

D. Levi, L'archivo di cretule a Festòs,” ASAtene 19-20(1957-58) 7-192.

D. Levi, Festòs e la civiltà minoica I (Rome 1976).

D. Levi and F. Carinci, Festòs e la civiltà minoica II (Rome 1988).

C. F. Macdonald, “Palatial Knossos: The Early Years,” 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) 81-113.

C. F. Macdonald and C. Knappett, Knossos: Protopalatial Deposits in Early Magazine A and the South-west Houses [BSA Supplementary Volume 41] (London 2007).

J. A. MacGillivray, “The Early History of the Palace at Knossos (MM I-II),” in D. Evely, H. Hughes-Brock, and N. Momigliano (eds.), Knossos: A Labyrinth of History (Oxford 1994) 45-55.

S. Marinatos, “Mesominoïke oikia en kato Mesara,” ArchDelt    (1924-25) 53-78.

P. Militello, “Il periodo Medio Minoico II: l’attività amministrativa,” in I Cento Anni dello Scavo di Festòs [Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei: Atti dei Convegni Lincei 173] (Rome 2001) 169-201.

P. Militello, “Emerging Authority: A Functional Analysis of the MM II Settlement of Phaistos,” 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) 236-272.

B. P. C. Molloy and C. N. Duckworth (eds.), A Cretan Landscape through Time: Priniatikos Pyrgos and Environs [BAR-IS 2634] (Oxford 2014).

B. Molloy, J. Day, and E. Nodarou, “Faltering Complexity: The Context and Character of Settlement at Priniatikos Pyrgos in Early Minoan III – Middle Minoan IA East Crete,” Hesperia 89(2020) 215-280.

N. Momigliano and D. E. Wilson, “Knossos 1993: Excavations Outside the South Front of the Palace,” BSA 91(1996) 1-57.

K. Nowicki, “The Historical Background of Defensible Sites on Crete: Late Minoan IIIC versus Protopalatial,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 191-197.

K. Nowicki, Monastiraki Katalimata. Excavation of a Cretan Refuge Site 1993-2000 [Prehistory Monographs 24] (Philadelphia 2008).

M. Panagiotaki, “The Vat Room Deposit at Knossos: The Unpublished Notes of Sir Arthur Evans,” BSA 

93(1998) 167-184.

O. Pelon, “Maison d'Hagia Varvara et architecture domestique à Mallia,” BCH 90(1966) 552-585.

O. Pelon, “Un dépot de fondation au palais de Malia,” BCH 110(1986) 3-19.

J. D. S. Pendlebury, “Two Protopalatial Houses at Knossos,” BSA 30(1928-30) 53-73.

A. Philippa-Touchais, “To spelaio sto Mavro Avlaki,” in L. Platon (ed.), Zakros I: Istorika kai methodologika. Erevnes sten evrytere perioche tes minoïkes enkatastases (Athens 2020) 495-560.

L. Platon (ed.), Zakros I: Istorika kai methodologika. Erevnes sten evrytere perioche tes minoïkes enkatastases (Athens 2020).

N. Platon, “Anaskaphe minoïkon oikion eis Prasa Herakleiou,” Prakt (1951) 246-257.

M. Popham, “Trial KV (1969), a MM Building at Knossos,” BSA 69(1974) 181-194.

J-C. Poursat, “Un sanctuaire du minoen moyen II à Mallia,” BCH 90(1966) 514-551.

J- C. Poursat, “Ateliers et sanctuaires à Malia: nouvelles données sur l'organization sociale à l'époque des premiers palais,” in O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon (eds.), Minoan Society (Bristol 1983) 277-281.

J-C. Poursat, “Town and Palace at Malia in the Protopalatial Period,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 75-76.

J-C. Poursat, “La ville minoenne de Malia: recherches et publications récentes,” RA (1988) 61-82.

J-C. Poursat, Guide de Malia au temps des premiers palais, Le quartier Mu (Athens 1992).

J-C. Poursat, Fouilles exécutées à Malia: le quartier Mu III: Artisans minoens: les maisons-ateliers du quartier Mu [Études Crétoises 32] (Athens 1996).

J.-C. Poursat, C. Prokopiou, and R. Treuil, “Oi oikiakes drasteriotetes sto Quartier Mu. E alese kai e yphantike,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A3: 99-114.

J.-C. Poursat, “The Emergence of Elite Groups at Protopalatial Malia. A Biography of Quartier Mu,” 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) 177-183.

G. Rethemiotakis and K. S. Christakis, “Power Strategies and Cultural Idiosyncrasies: An Assessment of the Current Evidence from the Protopalatial Settlement at Galatas, Pediada,” SMEA 53(2011) 195-218.

G. Rethemiotakis and K. Christakis, “The Middle Minoan III Period at Galatas: Pottery and Historical Implications,” in C. F. Macdonald and C. Knappett (eds.), INTERMEZZO. Intermediacy and Regeneration in Middle Minoan III Palatial Crete [BSA Studies 21] (London 2013) 93-105.

J. and E. Sakellarakis, Archanes (Athens 1991) 66-135 [Phourni], 137-156 [Anemospilia].

I. and E. Sakellarakis, Archanes. Minoan Crete in a New Light (Athens 1997).

N. Schlager, “’A Town of Castles’: Αn MM/LM Fortified Site at Aspro Nero in the Far East of Crete,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 171-177.

J. W. and M. C. Shaw (eds.). Kommos: An Excavation on the South Coast of Crete I, 2: The Kommos Region and Houses of the Minoan Town: The Minoan Hilltop and Hillside Houses (Princeton 1996).

J. S. Soles, “The Early Gournia Town,” AJA 83(1979) 149-167.

A. Speziale, “Il MM II : La Casa LXXXI-LXXXV, XCIV-XCV,” in I Cento Anni dello Scavo di Festòs [Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei: Atti dei Convegni Lincei 173] (Rome 2001) 157-167.

S. Todaro, “The Latest Prepalatial Period and the Foundation of the First Palace at Phaistos: A Stratigraphic and Chronological Re-assessment,” Creta Antica 10(2009) 105-145.

P. Tomkins, “Behind the Horizon: Reconsidering the Genesis and Function of the ‘First Palace’ at Knossos (Final Neolithic IV – Middle Minoan IB),” 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) 32-80.

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, “Ayia Photia Seteias: to Neo Evrema,” in E. B. French and K. A. Wardle (eds.), Problems in Aegean Prehistory (Bristol 1988) 31-47.

M. Tsipopoulou, “Proïstorike taphike vrachoskepe ston Petra Siteias – Prote anakoinose,” in M. Andrianakis and I. Tzachili (eds.), Archaiologiko Ergo Kretes 1[2008] (Rethymno 2010) 121-133.

M. Tsipopoulou (ed.), Petras, Siteia: 25 Years of Excavations and Studies (Aarhus 2012).

M. Tsipopoulou (ed.), Petras, Siteia: The Pre- and Proto-Palatial Cemetery in Context (Aarhus 2017).

M. Tsipopoulou, “Kavousi, Evraika: A Middle Minoan Burial Rock Shelter in Eastern Crete,” in M. Bettelli, M. Del Freo, and G. J. van Wijngaarden (eds.), Mediterranean Itinera: Studies in Honour of Lucia Vagnetti [Incunabula Graeca 106] (Rome 2018) 113-134.

M. Tsipopoulou and M. Wedde, “Diavazontas ena chomatino palimpsisto: stromatographikes tomes sto anaktoriko ktirio tou Petra Siteias,” Pepragmena tou H' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A3: 359-377.

I. Tzachili, Vrysinas I: Minoïka Eikastika Topia. Ta angeia me tis epithetes plastikes morphes apo to Iero Koryphes tou Vrysina kai e anazetese tou vathous (Athens 2011).

Y. Tzedhakis, S. Chryssoulaki, S. Voutsaki, and Y. Venieri, “Routes minoennes: un rapport préliminaire. Défense de la circulation ou circulation de la défense?,” BCH 113(1989) 43-75.

Y. Tzedhakis, S. Chryssoulaki, Y. Veniéri, and M. Avgouli, “Les routes minoennes. Le poste de Choiromandres et le contrôle des communications,” BCH 114(1990) 43-65.

A. Tzigounaki, “Palaioanaktorike enkatastase Apodoulou: E chronologese kai e schese tes me geitonika kentra,” in Pepragmena tou Z' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Rethymno 1995) A2: 895-914.

H. Van Effenterre, Le palais de Mallia et la cité minoenne (Rome 1980).

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.

M. Vlazaki, “Iris cretica and the Prepalatial Workshop of Chamalevri,” in O. Krzsyzkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren [BSA Studies 18] (London 2010) 359-366.

P. M. Warren, “Knossos: Stratigraphical Museum Excavations, 1978-1980. Part 1,” AR 27(1980-81) 73-92.

S. Xanthoudides, “Ek Kretes. III. Proïstorike oikia eis Chamaizi Seteias,” ArchEph (1906) 117-156.


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