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Lesson 12.12: Minoan Feasting in Palatial and Other Contexts

Lesson 12 Bibliography: Minoan Architecture: The Palaces

E. Borgna, “Social Meanings of Food and Drink Consumption at LM III Phaistos,” in P. Halstead and J. C. Barrett (eds.), Food, Cuisine and Society in Prehistoric Greece [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 5] (Oxford 2004) 174-195.

E. Borgna, “Aegean Feasting: A Minoan Perspective,” in J. C. Wright (ed.), The Mycenaean Feast (Princeton 2004) 127-159.

T. M. Brogan and A. J. Koh, “Feasting at Mochlos? New Evidence for Wine Production, Storage and Consumption from a Bronze Age Harbor Town on Crete?,” in L. A. Hitchcock, R. Laffineur, and J. Crowley (eds.), DAIS: The Aegean Feast [Aegaeum 29] (Liège/Austin 2008) 125-131.

I. Caloi, “Memory of a Feasting Event in the First Palace at Phaistos: Preliminary Observations on the Bench Deposit of Room IL,” Creta Antica 13(2012) 41-59.

I. Caloi. “Inaugurating the Court-centred Building? A MM IIIB Feasting Deposit at Neopalatial Sissi, North-central Crete,” SMEA NS 4(2018) 7-40.

B. Davis, “Libation and the Minoan Feast,” in L. A. Hitchcock, R. Laffineur, and J. Crowley (eds.), DAIS: The Aegean Feast [Aegaeum 29] (Liège/Austin 2008) 47-55.

S. C. Ferrence, “Is There Iconography of the Minoan Feast?,” in L. A. Hitchcock, R. Laffineur, and J. Crowley (eds.), DAIS: The Aegean Feast [Aegaeum 29] (Liège/Austin 2008) 269-275.

L. Girella, “Forms of Commensal Politics in Neopalatial Crete,” Creta Antica 8(2007) 135-168.

L. Girella, “Feasts in ‘Transition’? An Overview of Feasting Practices during MM III in Crete,” in L. A. Hitchcock, R. Laffineur, and J. Crowley (eds.), DAIS: The Aegean Feast [Aegaeum 29] (Liège/Austin 2008) 167-178.

Y. Hamilakis, “Consumption Patterns, Factional Competition and Political Developments in Bronze Age Crete,” BICS 42(1997-98) 233-234.

Y. Hamilakis, “Eating the Dead: Mortuary Feasting and the Politics of Memory in Aegean Bronze Age Societies,” in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 1] (Sheffield 1998) 115-132.

Y. Hamilakis, “The Anthropology of Food and Drink Consumption and the Aegean Archaeology,” in S. Vaughan and W. Coulson (eds.), Paleodiet in the Aegean (Oxford 2000) 59-67.

Y. Hamilakis, “Time, Performance, and the Production of a Mnemonic Record: From Feasting to an Archaeology of Eating and Drinking,” in L. A. Hitchcock, R. Laffineur, and J. Crowley (eds.), DAIS: The Aegean Feast [Aegaeum 29] (Liège/Austin 2008) 3-19.

Y. Hamilakis and K. Harris, “The Social Zooarchaeology of Feasting: The Evidence from the ‘Ritual’ Deposit at Nopigeia-Drapanias,” in E. Kapsomenos, M. Andreadaki-Vlazaki, and M. Adrianakis (eds.), Pepragmena tou I Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Chania 2011) A1: 199-218.

Y. Hamilakis and S. Sherratt, “Feasting and the Consuming Body in Bronze Age Crete and Early Iron Age Cyprus,” in G. Cadogan, M. Iakovou, K. Kopaka, and J. Whitley (eds.), Parallel Lives: Ancient Island Societies in Crete and Cyprus [BSA Studies 20] (London 2012) 187-207.

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 Activities in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean (Oxford 2007) 5-24.

Q. Letesson and J. Driessen, “From ‘Party’ to ‘Ritual’ to ‘Ruin’ in Minoan Crete: The Spatial Context of Feasting,” in L. A. Hitchcock, R. Laffineur, and J. Crowley (eds.), DAIS: The Aegean Feast [Aegaeum 29] (Liège/Austin 2008) 207-213.

J. Moody, “The Minoan Palace as Prestige Object,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 235-241.

I. Pini, “Are There Any Representations of Feasting in the Aegean Bronze Age?,” in L. A. Hitchcock, R. Laffineur, and J. Crowley (eds.), DAIS: The Aegean Feast [Aegaeum 29] (Liège/Austin 2008) 249-255.

J. Reid, “Dinnertime at Kato Zakro,” in L. A. Hitchcock, R. Laffineur, and J. Crowley (eds.), DAIS: The Aegean Feast [Aegaeum 29] (Liège/Austin 2008) 187-195.

J. B. Rutter, “Ceramic Sets in Context: One Dimension of Food Preparation and Consumption in a Minoan Palatial Setting,” in P. Halstead and J. C. Barrett (eds.), Food, Cuisine and Society in Prehistoric Greece [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 5] (Oxford 2004) 63-89.

A. Simandiraki, “The Minoan Body as a Feast,” in L. A. Hitchcock, R. Laffineur, and J. Crowley (eds.), DAIS: The Aegean Feast [Aegaeum 29] (Liège/Austin 2008) 29-37.

A. Simandiraki-Grimshaw, “Fleeting Fingers, Silent Pots? A Case Study of Human-Vessel Engagement from the Minoan Palace of Galatas Pediados, Crete,” in K. Müller, B. Schiller, et al., Von Kreta nach Kuba: Gedankschrift zu Ehren des Berliner Archäologen Veit Stürmer (Berlin 2018) 247-262.

P. I. Schneider, “Ein Fest am Hofe des Minos. Der Illustrator Fritz Krischen und die Vermittlung archäoloischer Erkenntnisse,” in K. Müller, B. Schiller, et al., Von Kreta nach Kuba: Gedankschrift zu Ehren des Berliner Archäologen Veit Stürmer (Berlin 2018) 229-246.

Y. Tzedakis, H. Martlew, and M. K. Jones (eds.), Archaeology Meets Science: Biomolecular Investigations in Bronze Age Greece: The Primary Scientific Evidence, 1997-2003 (Oxford 2008).


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