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Lesson 10.2: Synthetic Overviews of the Middle Minoan Period

Lesson 10 Bibliography: Middle Minoan Crete

G. Cadogan, “The Lasithi Area in the Old Palace Period,” BICS 37(1990) 172-174.

G. Cadogan, “An Old Palace Period Knossos State?,” in D. Evely, H. Hughes-Brock, and N. Momigliano (eds.), Knossos: A Labyrinth of History (Oxford 1994) 57-68.

S. Cappel, U. Günkel-Maschek, and D. Panagiotopoulos (eds.), Minoan Archaeology: Perspectives for the 21st Century (Louvain-la-Neuve 2015).

J. Driessen and C. Langohr, “Recent Developments in the Archaeology of Minoan Crete,” Pharos 20(2014) 75-115.

J. Driessen and I. Schoep, “The Architect and the Scribe. Political Implications of Architectural and Administrative Changes on MM II - LM IIIA Crete,” in R. Laffineur and W-D. Niemeier, POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège/Austin 1995) II: 649-664.

S. Evasdaughter, Crete Reclaimed: A Feminist Exploration of Bronze Age Crete (Loughborough 1996).

C. Knappett, “Mind the Gap: Between Pots and Politics in Minoan Studies,” in Y. Hamilakis (ed.), Labyrinth Revisited: Rethinking ‘Minoan’ Archaeology (Oxford 2002) 167-188.

C. Knappett, “Protopalatial Crete: The Material Culture,” in C. W. Shelmerdine (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age (Cambridge 2008) 121-139.

B. S. Kunkel, From Prestige Goods to the Possession of a Collective Past: A Dual-Processualist Approach to Social Organization in the Mirabello Region of Crete from the Final Neolithic to the End of the Protopalatial Period (PhD dissertation, Temple University 2017).

J. A. MacGillivray, “The Foundation of the Old Palaces in Crete,” Pepragmena tou ΣΤ' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Chania 1990) A1: 429-434.

J. A. MacGillivray, “The Cretan Countryside in the Old Palace Period,” in R. Hägg (ed.), The Function of the 'Minoan Villa' (Stockholm 1997) 21-25.

S. Manning, “The Emergence of Divergence: Development and Decline on Bronze Age Crete and the Cyclades,” in C. Mathers and S. Stoddart (eds.), Development and Decline in the Mediterranean Bronze Age (Sheffield 1994) 221-270.

S. Manning, “Cultural Change in the Aegean c. 2200 B.C.,” in H. Nüzhet Dalfes, G. Kukla, and H. Weiss (eds.), Third Millennium B.C. Climate Change and Old World Collapse (Berlin 1997) 149-171.

S. W. Manning, “Protopalatial Crete: Formation of the Palaces,” in C. W. Shelmerdine (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age (Cambridge 2008) 105-120.

M. Nikolaïdou and D. Kokkinidou, The Archaeology and Social Identity of Gender: Approaches in Aegean Prehistory (Thessaloniki 1993) <in Greek>.

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.

I. Schoep, “Bridging the Divide between the ‘Prepalatial’ and the ‘Protopalatial’ Periods?,” 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) 403-428.

I. Schoep and C. Knappett, “Dual Emergence: Evolving Heterarchy, Exploding Hierarchy,” in J. C. Barrett and P. Halstead (eds.), The Emergence of Civilisation Revisited [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 6] (Oxford 2004) 21-37.

I. Schoep and P. Tomkins, “Back to the Beginning for the Early and Middle Bronze Age on 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) 1-31.

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.


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