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Lesson 16.5: Architecture

Lesson 16 Bibliography: The Shaft Graves

C. Bolger, “Erbauung und Zerstörung des mykenischen Plattenringes,” JdI 10(1895) 114-127.

O. T. P. K. Dickinson, “Cist Graves and Chamber Tombs,” BSA 78(1983) 55-67.

O. Dickinson, “Why Grave Circles A and B at Mycenae Are Very Unlikely to be Burial Tumuli,” in E. Borgna and S. Müller Celka (eds.), Ancestral Landscapes: Burial Mounds in the Copper and Bronze Ages (Lyon 2008) 429-432.

R. D. Fitzsimons, “Monumental Architecture and the Construction of the Mycenaean State,” in N. Terrenato and D. C. Haggis (eds.), State Formation in Italy and Greece: Questioning the Neoevolutionist Paradigm (Oxford 2011) 75-118.

R. D. Fitzsimons, “An Energetic(s) Approach to Late Helladic Tomb Construction: Funerary Architecture and State Formation at Bronze Age Mycenae,” in D. W. Rupp and J. E. Tomlinson (eds.), Meditations on the Diversity of the Built Environment in the Aegean Basin and Beyond: Proceedings of a Colloquium in Memory of Frederick E. Winter [Publications of the Canadian Institute in Greece 8] (Athens 2014) 83-120.

E. French, “‘Dynamis’ in the Archaeological Record at Mycenae,” in M. M. Mackenzie and C. Roueché (eds.), Images of Authority: Papers Presented to Joyce Reynolds on the Occasion of Her 70th Birthday (Cambridge 1989) 122-130.

C. Gates, “Rethinking the Building History of Grave Circle A at Mycenae,” AJA 89(1985) 263-274.

J. Makkay, “The Altar over Shaft Grave IV at Mycenae in a Wider Perspective,” in G. S. Korres, N. Karadimas, and G. Flouda (eds.), Archaeology and Heinrich Schliemann: A Century after his Death. Assessments and Prospects. Myth-History-Science (Athens 2012) 93-103.

O. Pelon, Tholoi, tumuli et cercles funéraires (Paris 1976).

O. Pelon, “Origine de la culture des tombes à fosse en Grèce Continentale: données architecturales et rituelles,” Études indo-européennes 11(1985)

O. Pelon, “L'architecture funéraire de Grèce continentale à la transition du Bronze moyen et du Bronze récent,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), Thanatos. Les coutumes funéraires en Égée à l'âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 1] (Liège 1987) 107-116.

O. Pelon, “Les tombes à fosse de Mycènes: rupture ou continuité?,” in A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. Wright (eds.), MESOHELLADIKA: The Greek Mainland in the Middle Bronze Age [BCH Suppl. 52] (Paris 2010) 367-376.

V. P. Petrakis, “Diversity in Form and Practice in Middle Helladic and Early Mycenaean Elaborate Tombs: An Approach to Changing Prestige Expression in Changing Times,” in A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. Wright (eds.), MESOHELLADIKA: The Greek Mainland in the Middle Bronze Age [BCH Suppl. 52] (Paris 2010) 403-416.

E. Protonotariou-Deïlaki, “The Tumuli of Mycenae and Dendra,”" in R. Hägg and G. C. Nordquist (eds.), Celebrations of Death and Divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid (Stockholm 1990) 85-106.

I. Strøm, “The So-called Altar above the Shaft Grave IV at Mycenae,” Acta Archaeologica 54(1983) 141-146.

A. J. B. Wace, “The Grave Circle,” BSA 49(1954) 244-247.


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