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Lesson 13.4: Minoan Houses and Settlements: General

Lesson 13 Bibliography: Minoan Domestic and Funerary Architecture of the Neopalatial and Post-Palatial Periods

E. Apostolaki, “Complexity at the Microscale. Life in Pseira, Crete in the Late Bronze Age,” Kretika Chronika 37(2018) 9-37.

E. Apostolaki, “Whom the House Concerned: Land Ownership and Lines of Descent in Prehistoric Crete,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 97-120.

K. Branigan, “Aspects of Minoan Urbanism,” in K. Branigan (ed.), Urbanism in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 4] (Sheffield 2001) 38-50.

D. M. Buell and J. C. McEnroe, “Community Building/Building Community at Gournia,” in Q. Letesson and C. Knappett (eds.), Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment (Oxford 2017) 204-227.

K. S. Christakis, “Pithoi and Food Storage in Neopalatial Crete: A Domestic Perspective,” World Archaeology 31(1999) 1-20.

K. S. Christakis, The Politics of Storage: Storage and Sociopolitical Complexity in Neopalatial Crete [Prehistory Monographs 25] (Philadelphia 2008).

K. S. Christakis, “Archaeological Deposit Formation Processes and the Study of the Domestic Sector of Late Minoan IB Society,” in K. T. Glowacki and N. Vogeikoff-Brogan (eds.), STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete [Hesperia Supplement 44] (Princeton 2011) 213-217.

T. Cunningham, “Havoc: The Destruction of Power and the Power of Destruction in Minoan Crete,” in J. Bretschneider, J. Driessen, and K. van Lerberghe (eds.), Power and Architecture: Monumental Public Architecture in the Bronze Age Near East and Aegean (Leuven 2007) 23-43.

T. Cunningham, “In the Shadows of Kastri: An Examination of Domestic and Civic Space at Palaikastro (Crete),” in R. Westgate, N. Fisher, and J. Whitley (eds.), Building Communities: House, Settlement and Society in the Aegean and Beyond [BSA Studies 15] (London 2007) 99-109.

T. Cunningham, “Deconstructing Destructions,” in J. Driessen (ed.), Destruction: Archaeological, Philological and Historical Perspectives (Louvain-la-Neuve 2013) 53-62.

T. Cunningham, “Best Laid Plans: An Archaeology of Architectural Anomalies,” in Q. Letesson and C. Knappett (eds.), Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment (Oxford 2017) 31-56.

M. Devolder, “Hâte-toi de bâtir la demeure, hâte-toi d’édifier le palais,” Creta Antica 6(2005) 165-186.

M. Devolder, Composantes et interactions sociales en Crète néopalatiale (1700-1450 av. J.-C.). Investigation des données archéologiques (PhD dissertation, University of Louvain-la-Neuve 2009).

M. Devolder, “Labour Costs and Neopalatial Architecture. A Study of the Buildings at Klimataria-Manares and Achladia and the Palace at Gournia,” in D. Panagiotopoulos and U. Günkel-Maschek (eds.), Minoan Realities: Approaches to Images, Architecture, and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegis 5] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2012] 165-179.

M. Devolder, Construire en Crète minoenne. Une approche énergétique de l’architecture néopalatiale [Aegaeum 35] (Leuven 2013).

M. Devolder, “Architectural Energetics and Late Bronze Age Cretan Architecture: Measuring the Scale of Minoan Building Projects,” in Q. Letesson and C. Knappett (eds.), Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment (Oxford 2017) 57-79.

J. Driessen, “Crisis Architecture? Some Observations on Architectural Adaptations as Immediate Responses to Changing Socio-Cultural Conditions,” Topoi 5(1995) 63-88.

J. Driessen, “On the Use of Upper Floors in Minoan Neopalatial Architecture,” in I. Bradfer-Burdet, 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) 83-88.

J. Driessen, “Daidalos’ Designs and Ariadne’s Threads: Minoan Towns as Places of Interaction,” in L. Preston and S. Owen (eds.), Inside the City: Studies of Urbanism from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Period (Oxford 2009) 41-54.

J. Driessen, “Spirit of Place: Minoan Houses as Major Actors,” in D. J. Pullen (ed.), Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age (Oxford 2010) 35-65.

J. Driessen, “Understanding Minoan In-House Relationships on Late Bronze Age Crete,” in Q. Letesson and C. Knappett (eds.), Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment (Oxford 2017) 80-104.

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

J. Driessen and C. F. MacDonald, The Troubled Island: Crete Before and After the Santorini Eruption [Aegaeum 17] (Liège/ Austin 1997].

K. Glowacki, “House, Household and Community at LM IIIC Vronda, Kavousi,” in R. Westgate, N. Fisher, and J. Whitley (eds.), Building Communities: House, Settlement and Society in the Aegean and Beyond [BSA Studies 15] (London 2007) 129-139.

D. C. Haggis, “Destruction and the Formation of Static and Dynamic Settlement Structures in the Aegean,” in J. Driessen (ed.), Destruction: Archaeological, Philological and Historical Perspectives (Louvain-la-Neuve 2013) 63-88.

E. Hallager, “Upper Floors in LM I Houses,” in P. Darcque and R. Treuil (eds.), L'habitat égéen préhistorique [BCH Supplément 19] (Paris 1990) 281-292.

E. Hatzaki, “Defining ‘Domestic’ Architecture and ‘Household’ Assemblages in Late Bronze Age Knossos,” in K. T. Glowacki and N. Vogeikoff-Brogan (eds.), STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete [Hesperia Supplement 44] (Princeton 2011) 247-262.

E. Hatzaki, “The Turn of the Labyrinth: Cultural Transformations as Social Change in Late Bronze Age Crete,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 225-236.

V.-P. Herva, “The Life of Buildings: Minoan Building Deposits in an Ecological Perspective,” OJA 24(2005) 215-227.

L. A. Hitchcock, Minoan Architecture: A Contextual Analysis [SIMA-PB 155] (Jonsered 2000).

L. A. Hitchcock, “Naturalising the Cultural: Architectonicised Landscape as Ideology in Minoan Crete,” in R. Westgate, N. Fisher, and J. Whitley (eds.), Building Communities: House, Settlement and Society in the Aegean and Beyond [BSA Studies 15] (London 2007) 91-97.

L. A. Hitchcock, “Fluid and Flexible: Revisiting the Vernacular Tradition on Bronze Age Crete, Thera, and Cyprus,” in K. T. Glowacki and N. Vogeikoff-Brogan (eds.), STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete [Hesperia Supplement 44] (Princeton 2011) 233-245.

R. W. Hutchinson, “Prehistoric Town Planning in Crete,” Town Planning Review 21(1950) 211-215.

C. Knappett, “Architectural Facilities and House Society in Bronze Age Crete,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 81-96.

Q. Letesson, Du phénotype au génotype: analyse de la syntaxe spatiale en architecture minoenne (MMIIIB-MRIB) [Aegis 2] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2009).

Q. Letesson and J. Driessen, “‘On the House’: A Diachronic Look on the Configuration of Minoan Social Relationships,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis 19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 7-24.

Q. Letesson and C. Knappett, “Introduction – Minoan Built Environment: Past Studies, Recent Perspectives, and Future Challenges,” in Q. Letesson and C. Knappett (eds.), Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment (Oxford 2017) 1-20.

Q. Letesson and C. Knappett, “Architecture: Building Dynamics at the Micro-scale,” in Q. Letesson and C. Knappett (eds.), Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment (Oxford 2017) 23-30.

Q. Letesson and C. Knappett, “Urbanism: Built Space and Communities at the Meso-scale,” in Q. Letesson and C. Knappett (eds.), Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment (Oxford 2017) 107-113.

Q. Letesson and C. Knappett, “Processes and Patterns at the Macro-scale: Crete and Beyond,” in Q. Letesson and C. Knappett (eds.), Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment (Oxford 2017) 259-265.

Q. Letesson, C. Knappett, and M. E. Smith, “A Comparative Perspective on Minoan Urbanism,” in Q. Letesson and C. Knappett (eds.), Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment (Oxford 2017) 361-388.

J. F. Lloyd, Settlements, Dwellings, and Painted Pottery: A Contribution to the History of Minoan Crete in the Early Late Bronze Age (Ph.D. dissertation, New York University 1990).

W. Löwe, “Siedlungen und Gräber der Palastzeit,” in H. Siebenmorgen (ed.), Im Labyrinth des Minos. Kreta – die erste europäische Hochkultur (Munich 2000) 97-104.

H. Matthäus and S. Westerburg-Eberl, “Minoische Hausarchitektur: Gebäudetypen und Bautechnik,” in A. Kyriatsoulis (ed.), Bronze Age Architectural Traditions in the East Mediterranean: Diffusion and Diversity (Weilheim 2009) 91-113.

J. C. McEnroe, Minoan House and Town Arrangement (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto 1979).

J. McEnroe, “A Typology of Minoan Neopalatial Houses,” AJA 86(1982) 3-19.

J. C. McEnroe, “The Significance of Local Styles in Minoan Vernacular Architecture,” in P. Darcque and R. Treuil (eds.), L'habitat égéen préhistorique [BCH Supplément 19] (Paris 1990) 195-202.

J. C. McEnroe, Pseira V: The Architecture of Pseira (Philadelphia 2001).

J. C. McEnroe, Architecture of Minoan Crete: Constructing Identity in the Aegean Bronze Age (Austin 2010) 93-116.

P. Militello, “Organizzazione dello spazio e vita quotidiana nelle case TM I di Haghia Triada,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou Η' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A2: 313-334.

P. Militello, O. Palio, and M. Figuera, “Houses, Central Buildings and Embedded Production: Interpreting the Role of Households in Phaistos and Hagia Triada during the Palatial Periods,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 121-140.

K. Müller, Gournia. Ein urbanes Zentrum der Spätbronzezeit (Berlin 2013).

J. W. Myers, E. E. Myers, and G. Cadogan, The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete (Berkeley 1992).

L. Nixon, “Neopalatial Outlying Settlements and the Function of the Minoan Palaces,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 95-98.

E. Paliou and A. Bevan, “Computational Approaches to Minoan Settlement Interaction and Growth,” in Q. Letesson and C. Knappett (eds.), Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment (Oxford 2017) 266-288.

C. Palyvou, “Circulatory Patterns in Minoan Architecture,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Function of the Minoan Palaces (Stockholm 1987) 195-203.

C. Palyvou, “The Comparative Analysis of Concepts of Space as a Tool for Interpreting Aegean Bronze Age Architecture: Minoan and Mycenean Architecture,” in A. Kyriatsoulis (ed.), Bronze Age Architectural Traditions in the East Mediterranean: Diffusion and Diversity (Weilheim 2009) 115-126.

C. Palyvou, “Minoan Group Design: The ‘View from the Bridge’,” in Q. Letesson and C. Knappett (eds.), Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment (Oxford 2017) 181-203.

C. Palyvou, Daidalos at Work: A Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Minoan Architecture (Philadelphia 2018).

L. Platon, “L'urbanisme minoen. B. Espace intérieur et espace extérieur dans la ville minoenne,” in P. Darcque and R. Treuil (eds.), L'habitat égéen préhistorique [BCH Supplément 19] (Paris 1990) 381-393.

D. Puglisi, “Rites of Passage in Minoan Palatial Crete and Their Role in Structuring a House Society,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 63-80.

M. Relaki, “Examining the Practices of Belonging in Bronze Age Crete,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 317- .

D. G. Romano, “Minoan Surveyors and Town Planning at Gournia,” in K. P. Foster and R. Laffineur (eds.), METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 24] (Liège/Austin 2003) 247-256.

D. Romanou, “Residence Design and Variation in Residential Group Structure: A Case Study, Mallia,” in R. Westgate, N. Fisher, and J. Whitley (eds.), Building Communities: House, Settlement and Society in the Aegean and Beyond [BSA Studies 15] (London 2007) 77-90.

A. Salichou, Endokoinotike organose kai oikonomia ton astikon theseon tes Kretes kata te Neoanaktorike Periodo. To paradeigma tes Kato Zakrou: Prosengise tou thematos ste base ton ylikon kataloipon (PhD dissertation, University of Athens 2012).

J. W. Shaw, “Roof Drains and Parapets in the Southern Aegean,” BSA 99(2004) 173-188.

C. Sofianou and T. Brogan, “Darkness at the Edge of Town? Possible Signs of Inequality in the LM IB Oikos at Papadiokampos,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 141-156.

J. S. Soles, F. McCoy, and R. Suka, “Evidence for Three Earthquakes at Mochlos in the Neopalatial Period, c. 1700-1430 BC,” in S. Jusseret and M. Sintubin (eds.), Minoan Earthquakes: Breaking the Myth through Interdisciplinarity (Louvain-la-Neuve 2017) 307-326.

E. Tsakanika-Theochari, “The Constructional Analysis of Timber Load Bearing Systems as a Tool for Interpreting Aegean Bronze Age Architecture,” in A. Kyriatsoulis (ed.), Bronze Age Architectural Traditions in the East Mediterranean: Diffusion and Diversity (Weilheim 2009) 127-142.

D. Vallianou, “New Evidence of Earthquake Destructions in Late Minoan Crete,” in S. Stiros and R. E. Jones (eds.), Archaeoseismology [Fitch Laboratory Occasional Paper 7] (Exeter 1996) 153-168.

T. Whitelaw, “From Sites to Communities: Defining the Human Dimensions of Minoan Urbanism,” in K. Branigan (ed.), Urbanism in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 4] (Sheffield 2001) 15-37.

T. Whitelaw, “The Floor Area of 207 Minoan Houses,” in K. Branigan (ed.), Urbanism in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 4] (Sheffield 2001) 174-179.

T. Whitelaw, “Estimating the Population of Neopalatial Knossos,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [BSA Studies 12] (London 2004) 147-158.

T. Whitelaw, “The Development and Character of Urban Communities in Prehistoric Crete in Their Regional Context: A Preliminary Study,” in Q. Letesson and C. Knappett (eds.), Minoan Architecture and Urbanism: New Perspectives on an Ancient Built Environment (Oxford 2017) 114-180.

J. C. Wright, “Modeling Domesticity,” in P. P. Betancourt, M. C. Nelson, and H. Williams (eds.), Krinoi kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw (Philadelphia 2007) 263-270.

E. Yannouli, Reason in Architecture: The Component of Space. A Study of Domestic and Palatial Buildings in Bronze Age Greece (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cambridge 1992).

J. P. Zielinski, Cyclopean Architecture in Minoan Bronze Age Crete: A Study in the Social Organization of a Complex Society (Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Buffalo 1998).


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