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Lesson 13.6: Settlement Pattern and Surface Survey

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

M. R. Belgiorno, P. Belli, E. Scafa, L.-M. Sportiello, and L. Vagnetti, “Spunti per lo studio della regione di Kissamos nell’Eta del Bronzo,” SMEA 25(1984) 65-89.

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.

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

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

C. Broodbank, “Kythera Survey: Preliminary Report on the 1998 Season,” BSA  94(1999) 191-214.

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.

K. Chalikias, Living on the Margin: Chryssi Island and the Settlement Patterns of the Ierapetra Area, South-eastern Crete [BAR-IS 2549] (Oxford 2013).

K. Chalikias, “Chryssi Island: New Evidence on the Bronze Age Settlement Patterns of the Ierapetra Area,” in S. Cappel, U. Günkel-Maschek, and D. Panagiotopooulos (eds.), Minoan Archaeology: Perspectives for the 21st Century [Aegis 8] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2015) 37-51.

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

J. Driessen, “History and Hierarchy. Preliminary Observations on the Settlement Pattern in Minoaan Crete,” in K. Branigan (ed.), Urbanism in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 4] (Sheffield 2001) 51-71.

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

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

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.

D. C. Haggis and M. S. Mook, “The Kavousi Coarse Wares: A Bronze Age Chronology for Survey in the Mirabello Area, East Crete,” AJA 97(1993) 265-293.

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).

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).

B. Hayden, J. Moody, and O. Rackham, “The Vrokastro Survey Project, 1986-1989: Research Design and Preliminary Results,” Hesperia 61(1992) 293-353.

T. Kalpaxis, K. Athanassas, I. Bassiakos, T. Brennan, B. Hayden, E. Nodarou, K. Pavlopoulos, and A. Sarris, “Preliminary Results of the Istron, Mirabello, Geophysical and Geoarchaeological Project, 2002-2004,” BSA 101(2006) 135-181.

J. A. MacGillivray, L. H. Sackett, and J. Driessen, “An Archaeological Survey of the Roussolakkos Area at Palaikastro,” BSA 79(1984) 129-159.

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

J. Moody, The Environmental and Cultural Prehistory of the Khania Region of West Crete: Neolithic through 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.

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.

H. A. Orengo and C. Knappett, “Toward a Definition of Minoan Agro-Pastoral Landscapes: Results of the Survey at Palaikastro (Crete),” AJA 122(2018) 479-507.

N. Schlager, Archäologische Geländeprospektion Südostkreta: Erste Ergebnisse (Vienna 1991).

I. Schoep, “Managing the Hinterland: The Rural Concerns of Urban Administration,” in K. Branigan (ed.), Urbanism in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 4] (Sheffield 2001) 87-102.

C. Sofianou and T. M. Brogan, “Papadiokampos and the Siteia Bay in the Second Millennium BC: Exploring Patterns of Regional Hierarchy and Exchange in Eastern Crete,” in M. Tsipopoulou (ed.), Petras, Siteia: 25 Years of Excavations and Studies [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 16] (Athens 2012) 327-340. 

C. Sofianou and N. Thanos, “E epiphaneiake erevna sto Kavo Plakos: Perioche Palaikastrou Demou Seteias,” in P. Karanastasi, A. Tzigounaki, and C. Tsigonaki (eds.), Archaiologiko Ergo Kretes 3(2015) 577-584.

M. Tsipopoulou, Archaeological Survey at Aghia Photia, Siteia [SIMA-PB 76] (Partille 1989).

L. Vokotopoulos, “A View of the Neopalatial Countryside: Settlement and Social Organizatiion at Karoumes, Eastern Crete,” in K. T. Glowacki and N. Vogeikoff-Brogan (eds.), STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete [Hesperia Supplement 44] (Princeton 2011) 137-149.

L. Vokotopoulos, G. Plath, and F. W. McCoy, “The Yield of the Land: Soil Conservation and the Exploitation of Arable Land at Choiromandres, Zakros in the New Palace Period,” in G. Touchais, R. Laffineur, and F. Rougemont (eds.), PHYSIS: Natural Environment and Human Interaction in the Prehistoric Aegean [Aegaeum 14] (Liége 2014) 251-264.

L. V. Watrous, Lasithi. A History of Settlement on a Highland Plain in Crete [Hesperia Supplement 18] (Princeton 1982).

L. V. Watrous, D. Hatzi-Vallianou, K. Pope, N. Mourtzas, J. Shay, C. T. Shay, J. Bennet, D. Tsoungarakis, E. Angelomati-Tsoungarakis, C. Vallianos, and H. Blitzer, “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. M. Buell, E. Kokinou, P. Soupios, A. Sarris, S. Beckmann, G. Rethemiotakis, L. A. Turner, S. Gallimore, and M. D. Hammond, The Galatas Survey: Socio-Economic and Political Development of a Contested Territory in Central Crete during the Neolithic to Ottoman Periods [Prehistory Monographs 55] (Philadelphia 2017).

L. V. Watrous, D. Haggis, K. Nowicki, N. Vogeikoff-Brogan, and M. Schultz, An Archaeological Survey of the Gournia Landscape: A Regional History of the Mirabello Bay, Crete, in Antiquity [Prehistory Monographs 37] (Philadelphia 2012).

J. Whitley, K. O’Conor, and H. Mason, “Praisos III: A Report on the Architectural Survey Undertaken in 1992,” BSA 90(1995) 405-428.

J. Whitley, M. Prent, and S. Thorne, “Praisos IV: A Preliminary Report on the 1993 and 1994 Survey Seasons,” BSA 94(1999) 215-264.


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