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Lesson 10.5: Surface Survey and Settlement Patterns

Lesson 10 Bibliography: Middle Minoan Crete

V. Batten, “EM - MM Settlements in the Area of Keratokampos and Chondros, Southern Crete,” Aegean Archaeology 2(1995) 7-28.

D. J. Blackman and K. Branigan, “An Archaeological Survey on the South Coast of Crete, between Ayiofarango and Chrisostomos,” BSA 70(1975) 17-36.

D. J. Blackman and K. Branigan, “An Archaeological Survey of the Lower Catchment of the Ayiofarango Valley,” BSA 72(1977) 13-84.

K. Branigan, T. Carter, and P. O'Connor, “Prehistoric and Early Historic Settlement in the Ziros Region, Eastern Crete,” BSA 93(1998) 23-90.

I. Caloi, “Phaistos and the Western Mesara Plain in the Middle Bronze Age: Integrating Settlement and Funerary Data,” in D. Lefèvre-Novaro, L. Martzolff, and M. Ghilardi (eds.), Géosciences, archeologie, et histoire en Crète de l’Âge du Bronze Récent à l’Époque Archaïque (Padova 2015) 143-158.

K. Chalikias, “Searching for the Missing ‘Palace’: Proto- and Neopalatial Settlement Dynamics in the Southern Ierapetra Isthmus. The Recent Evidence,” Aegean Archaeology 10(2009-10) [2013] 33-46.

S. Chrysoulaki and L. Vokotopoulos, “To archaiologiko topio enos anaktorou. E erevna epiphaneias ste perioche tou minoïkou anaktorou Zakrou Seteias,” Archaiologia 49(1993) 70-78.

T. Cunningham, “Variations on a Theme: Divergence in Settlement Patterns and Spatial Organization in the Far East of Crete during the Proto- and Neopalatial Periods,” in K. Branigan (ed.), Urbanism in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 4] (Sheffield 2001) 72-86.

T. Cunningham and J. Driessen, “Site by Site: Combining Survey and Excavation Data to Chart Patterns of Socio-Political Change in Bronze Age Crete,” in S. E. Alcock and J. F. Cherry (eds.), Side-by-Side Survey: Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean World (Oxford 2004) 101-113.

D. C. Haggis, “Archaeological Survey at Kavousi, Crete: Settlement Development in Middle Minoan and Late Minoan I,” Pepragmena tou Z' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou A1 (Rethymno 1995) 369-381.

D. C. Haggis, “Archaeological Survey at Kavousi, East Crete: Preliminary Report,” Hesperia 65(1996) 373-432.

B. J. Hayden, Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete 2: The Settlement History of the Vrokastro Area and Related Studies [University Museum Monograph 119] (Philadelphia 2004).

B. J. Hayden, Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete 3: The Vrokastro Regional Survey Project, Sites and Pottery [University Museum Monograph 123] (Philadelphia 2005).

J. Moody, The Environmental and Cultural Prehistory of the Khania Region of West Crete: Neolithic - Late Minoan III (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota 1987).

J. Moody, “Western Crete in the Bronze Age: A Survey of the Evidence,” in L. P. Day, M. S. Mook, and J. D. Muhly (eds.), Crete Beyond the Palaces: Proceedings of the Crete 2000 Conference (Philadelphia 2004) 247-264.

S. Müller, “Prospection de la plaine de Malia,” BCH 116(1992) 742-753.

L. Nixon, J. Moody, and O. Rackham, “Archaeological Survey in Sphakia, Crete,” Echos du monde classique 32, n.s.7(1988) 159-173.

L. Nixon, J. Moody, S. Price, and O. Rackham, “Archaeological Survey in Sphakia, Crete,” Echos du monde classique 32, n.s.8(1989) 201-215.

L. Nixon, J. Moody, V. Niniou-Kindeli, S. Price, and O. Rackham, “Archaeological Survey in Sphakia, Crete,” Echos du monde classique 32, n.s.9(1990) 213-230.

E. Paliou and A. Bevan, “Evolving Settlement Patterns, Spatial Interaction and the Socio-Political Organisation of Late Pre-Palatial South-Central Crete,” JAA 42(2016) 184-197. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278416516300071]

I. Schoep, “Social and Political Aspects of Urbanism in Middle Minoan I-II Crete: Towards a Regional Approach,” in S. Owen and L. Preston (eds.), Inside the City in the Greek World: Studies of Urbanism from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Period (Oxford 2009) 27-40.

L. V. Watrous, Lasithi, A History of Settlement on a Highland Plain in Crete [Hesperia Supplement 18] (Princeton 1980).

L. V. Watrous et al., “A Survey of the Western Mesara Plain in Crete: Preliminary Report of the 1984, 1986, and 1987 Field Seasons,” Hesperia 62(1993) 191-248.

L. V. Watrous, D. Hadzi-Vallianou, and H. Blitzer, The Plain of Phaistos: Cycles of Social Complexity in the Mesara Region of Crete [Monumenta Archaeologica 23] (Los Angeles 2004).


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