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Lesson 17.15: Large Eastern Aegean Islands North of the Dodecanese

Lesson 17 Bibliography: Akrotiri on Thera, the Santorini Volcano, and the Middle and Late Cycladic Periods in the Central Aegean Islands

N. Bayne and N. Spencer, “The Ceramics of the Northeast Aegean Region from the Middle Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age,” in K. Lambrianides and N. Spencer (eds.), The Madra River Delta. Regional Studies on the Aegean Coast of Turkey I: Environment, Society and Community Life from Prehistory to the Present [BIAA Monograph 35] (London 2007) 79-89.

L. Bernabò-Brea, Poliochni. Citta preistorica nell'isola di Lemnos II (Rome 1976).

C. Boulotis, “Koukonesi Lemnou. Tessera chronia anaskaphikes erevnas: theseis kai ypotheseis,” in C. G. Doumas and V. La Rosa (eds.), E Poliochne kai e Proïme Epoche tou Chalkou sto Boreio Aigaio (Athens 1997) 230-272.

C. Boulotis, “Koukonisi on Lemnos: Reflections on the Minoan and Minoanising Evidence,” in C. F. Macdonald, E. Hallager, and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), The Minoans in the Central, Eastern and Northern Aegean – New Evidence [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 8] (Athens 2009) 175-218.

C. Boulotis, “Koukonisi (Lemnos), un site portuaire florissant du Bronze Moyen et du début du Bronze Récent dans le Nord de l’Égée,” in A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. Wright (eds.), MESOHELLADIKA: The Greek Mainland in the Middle Bronze Age [BCH Supplement 52] (Paris 2010) 891-907.

C. Boulotis and E. Kardamaki, “To Koukonisi tes Lemnou kai ta characteristika tes mykenaïkes periphereias sto voreio Aigaio,” in E. Karantzali (ed.), 3rd International Interdisciplinary Colloquium “The Periphery of the Mycenaean World. Recent Discoveries of Research Results” (Athens 2021) 691-702.

L. Coluccia, “Hephaestia: New Data on the Mycenaean Presence on Lemnos during the Late Bronze Age,” in N. Chr. Stampolidis, Ç. Maner, nd K. Kopanias (eds.), NOSTOI: Indigenous Culture, Migration + Integration in the Aegean Islands +Western Anatolia during the Late Bronze + Early Iron Ages (Istanbul 2015) 445-460.

M. Cultraro, “Sounding H/West,” in C. G. Doumas and V. La Rosa (eds.), E Poliochne kai e Proïme Epoche tou Chalkou sto Boreio Aigaio (Athens 1997) 686-687.

M. Cultraro, “Indizi della sopravvivenza di Poliochni (Lemnos) nella media e tarda età del Bronzo,” in M. C. Martinelli and U. Spigo (eds.), Studi di preistoria e protostoria in onore di Luigi Bernabò Brea [Quaderni del Museo Archeologico Regionale Eoliano, Supplemento 1] (Palermo 2001) 213-240.

M. Cultraro, “Aegeans on Smoke-shrouded Lemnos: A Re-assessment of the Mycenaean Evidence from Poliochni and Other Sites,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 237-246.

M. Cultraro, “The Middle Bronze Age Pottery Sequence in the Northern Aegean Islands. The Evidence of Poliochni, Lemnos,” in F. Felten, W. Gauss, and R. Smetana (eds.), Middle Helladic Pottery and Synchronisms [Agina-Kolonna Forschungen und Ergebnisse I] (Vienna 2007) 323-332.

M. Cultraro, “In Death Not Separated. Evidence of Middle Bronze Age Intramural Burials at Poliochni on Lemnos,” in A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. Wright (eds.), MESOHELLADIKA: The Greek Mainland in the Middle Bronze Age [BCH Supplement 52] (Paris 2010) 919-930.

L. Girella and P. Pavúk, “Minoanisation, Acculturation, Hybridisation: The Evidence of the Minoan Presence in the North East Aegean between the Middle and Late Bronze Age,” in N. Chr. Stampolidis, Ç. Maner, nd K. Kopanias (eds.), NOSTOI: Indigenous Culture, Migration + Integration in the Aegean Islands +Western Anatolia during the Late Bronze + Early Iron Ages (Istanbul 2015) 387-420.

K. Jarosova, “Late Bronze Age Settlement History of Emporio on Chios Reconsidered,” Studia Herycinia 22(2018) 32-51.

G. Messineo, “Gli scavi di Efestia a Lemno. Tradizione micenea nella civiltà tirrenica,” SMEA 39(1997) 241-252.

M. S. F. Hood, “Mycenaeans in Chios,” in J. Boardman and C. E. Vaphopoulou-Richardson (eds.), Chios. A Conference at the Homereion in Chios 1984 (Oxford 1986) 169-180.

C. Marangou, “Rocks and the Sea at Myrina Kastro, Lemnos Island,” in B. Davis and R. Laffineur (eds.), NEOTEROS. Studies in Bronze Age Aegean Art and Archaeology in Honor of Professor John G. Younger on the Occasion of His Retirement [Aegaeum 44] (Louvain/Liège 2020) 261-270.

D. Matsas, “Samothrace and the Northeastern Aegean: The Minoan Connection,” Studia Troica 1(1991) 159-179.

D. Matsas, “Minoan Long-Distance Trade: A View from the Northern Aegean,” in R. Laffineur and W.-D. Niemeier, POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège 1995) I: 235-247.

N. Merousis, “Minoïke kai minoïzousa keramike sta nesia tou BA Aigaiou ste 2e xilietia p. Ch.: Skepseis yia te semasia tes parousias tes,” in E. Berki (ed.), Epikoinonies kai metaphores sten probiomechanike periodo [11th Symposio Istorias kai Technes, Monemvasia 1998] (Athens 2001) 15-28.

V. P. Petrakis and P. Moutzouridis, “Grey Ware(s) from the Bronze Age Settlement of Koukonisi on Lemnos: First Presentation,” in A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. Wright (eds.), MESOHELLADIKA: The Greek Mainland in the Middle Bronze Age [BCH Supplement 52] (Paris 2010) 909-917.

S. Privitera, “Hephaestia on Lemnos and the Mycenaean Presence in the Islands of the Northeastern Aegean,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 227-236.

A. Teffeteller, “Singers of Lazpa: Reconstructing Identities on Bronze Age Lesbos,” in A. Mouton, I. Rutherford, and I. Yakubovich (eds.), Luwian Identities. Culture, Language and Religion between Anatolia and the Aegean (Boston 2013) 567-589.


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