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Lesson 17.12: The Archaeology of the Middle Cycladic Period

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

N. Abell, “Minoanisation in the Middle Bronze Age: Evaluating the Role of Cycladic Producers and Consumers,” BSA 111(2016) 71-93.

T. D. Atkinson et al., Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos (London 1904).

A. S. Bailey, The Potters’ Marks of Phylakopi (PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh 1996).

R. L. N. Barber, “The Cyclades in the Middle Bronze Age,” TAW I(1978) 367-379.

R. L. N. Barber, “A Tomb at Ayios Loukas, Syros: Some Thoughts on Early - Middle Cycladic Chronology,” JMAA 1(1981) 167-179.

R. L. N. Barber, The Cyclades in the Bronze Age (Iowa City 1987).

R. L. N. Barber, “The Middle Cycladic Pottery,” in C. Renfrew (ed.), Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos 1974-77 [BSA Supplementary Volume 42] (London 2007) 181-238 (with appendices on imported MH and MM pottery by O. T. P. K. Dickinson (238-248) and M. S. F. Hood (248-264), respectively).

R. L. N. Barber, “Unpublished Pottery from Phylakopi,” BSA 103(2008) 43-222.

R. L. N. Barber, “Terracotta Figurines from Mikre Vigla, Naxos,” in M. Marthari, C. Renfrew, and M. J. Boyd (eds.), Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context (Oxford 2017) 455-465.

R. Barber, “Kerameike tes meses kai ysteres epochs tou Chalkou apo to spelaio tou Za,” in SPEIRA: Epistemonike synantese pros timen tes Angelikas Douzougli kai tou Konstantinou Zakou (Athens 2017) 55-66.

R. L. N. Barber, “Subject and Setting: Early Representatinal Motifs on Pottery from Phylakopi (Early Cycladic IIIIB-Middle Cycladic) and Their Relevance to Fresco Scenes,” in A. G. Vlachopoulos (ed.), ΧΡΩΣΤΗΡΕΣ/Paintbrushes: Wall-painting and Vase-painting of the Second Millennium BC in Dialogue (Athens 2018) 155-162.

R. L. N. Barber and O. Hadjianastasiou, “Mikre Vigla: A Bronze Age Settlement on Naxos,” BSA 84(1989) 63-162.

A. Bikaki, Keos IV: The Potter's Marks (Mainz 1984).

E. T. Blackburn, The Cyclades in the Middle Bronze Age (M.A. thesis, University of Cincinnati 1964).

N. Brodie, “A Reassessment of Mackenzie’s Second and Third Cities at Phylakopi,” BSA 104(2009) 49-72.

N. Brodie, M. Boyd, and R. Sweetman, “The Settlement of South Phylakopi: A Reassessment of Dawkins and Droop’s 1911 Excavations,” in N. Brodie, J. Doole, G. Gavalas, and C. Renfrew (eds.), ORIZON. A Colloquium on the Prehistory of the Cyclades (Cambridge 2008) 409-415.

C. Broodbank, “Does Island Archaeology Matter?,” in A. R. Knodell and T. P. Leppard (eds.), Regional Approaches to Society and Complexity: Studies in Honor of John F. Cherry (Sheffield 2017) 188-206.

D. M. Crego, “Exchange in Period IV at Ayia Irini on Kea,” in F. Felten, W. Gauss, and R. Smetana (eds.), Middle Helladic Pottery and Synchronisms [Ägina-Kolonna Forschungen und Ergebnisse I] (Vienna 2007) 333-338.

D. M. Crego, “Ayia Irini IV: A Distribution Center for the Middle Helladic World?,” 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) 841-845.

J. L. Davis, Keos V: Ayia Irini: Period V (Mainz 1986).

J. L. Davis and D. F. Williams, Petrological Examination of Later Middle Bronze Age Pottery from Ayia Irini, Keos,” Hesperia 50(1981) 291-300.

R. M. Dawkins and J. P. Droop, The Excavations at Phylakopi,” BSA 17(1910-11) 1-22.

C. Doumas, “The Human Condition as Reflected in Early Aegean Art,” in R. B. Koehl (ed.), Studies in Aegean Art and Culture: A New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium in Memory of Ellen N. Davis (Philadelphia 2016) 47-58.

I. Galanakis, The Aegean World: A Guide to the Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum (Athens 2013).

C. Gamble, “Surplus and Self-Sufficiency in the Cycladic Subsistence Economy,” in J. L. Davis and J. F. Cherry (eds.), Papers in Cycladic Prehistory (Los Angeles 1979) 122-134.

E. Gorogianni and R. D. Fitzsimons, “Social Complexity in Late Middle Bronze Age and Early Late Bronze Age Cyclades: A View from Ayia Irini,” in C. Wiersma and S. Voutsaki (eds.), Social Change in Aegean Prehistory (Oxford 2017) 124-158.

E. Gorogianni, N. D. Abell, and J. Hilditch, “Reconsidering Technological Transmission: The Introduction of the Potter’s Wheel at Ayia Irini, Kea, Greece,” AJA 120(2016) 195-220.

J. R. Hilditch, Reconstruction of Technological Choice, Social Practice and Networks of Exchange from a Ceramic Perspective in the Middle Bronze Age Cyclades (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Exeter 2008) [http://hdl.handle.net/10036/49133].

G. Kalogeroudis, Befestigungsanlagen im griechischen Raum in der Bronzezeit und ihre Entwicklung von neolithischer bis in archaische Zeit [BAR-IS 1878] (Oxford 2008).

V. Kilikoglou, C. Doumas, A. Papagiannopoulou, E. V. Sayre, Y. Maniatis, and P. Grimanis, “A Study of Middle and Late Cycladic Pottery from Akrotiri,” in TAW III.1(1990) 441-448.

C. Knappett and I. Nikolakopoulou, “Exchange and Affiliation Networks in the MBA Southern Aegean: Crete, Akrotiri and Miletus,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 175-184.

S. A. Laemmel, “Une cruche à bec du Cycladique Moyen au Musée d'Art d'Histoire de Genève,” Antike Kunst 41(1998) 56-66.

B. Lanaras, “Mia intra muros taphe vrephous sto mesokykladiko Akroteri Theras. Istoria tou ethimou ton intra muros taphon sto Aigaio,” in A. Vlachopoulos and K. Birtacha (eds.), ARGONAUTIS: Timetikos tomos yia ton Kathegete Christo G. Douma apo tous mathetes tou sto Panepistimio Athenon (1980-2000) (Athens 2003) 445-460.

U. Lohner, “Vier Knickrandschalen aus Phylakopi auf Melos,” in G. Erath, M. Lehner, and G. Schwarz (eds.), KOMOS: Festschrift für Thuri Lorenz (Vienna 1997) 107-110.

S. Manning, “The Emergence of Divergence: Development and Decline on Bronze Age Crete and the Cyclades,” in C. Mathers and S. Stoddart (eds.), Development and Decline in the Mediterranean Bronze Age (Sheffield 1994) 221-270.

M. Marthari, “Anaskaphe ste these Phtellos Theras (Periodo 1980),” AAA 15(1983) 86-101.

M. Marthari, “E Thera apo ten Proïme ste Mese Epoche tou Chalkou: Ta apotelesmata ton anaskaphon ston Phtello kai ton Ayio Ioanne ton Eleemona,” in I. M. Danezes (ed.), Santorine: Thera, Therasia, Aspronesi, Ephaisteia (Athens 2001) 105-120.

M. Marthari, “Middle Cycladic and Early Late Cycladic Cemeteries and their Minoan Elements: The Case of the Cemetery at Skarkos on Ios,” 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) 41-58.

P. Misch, “Zur Herkunft der frühzyprischen 'Entenkannen',” Thetis [Mannheimer Beiträge zur Klassischen Archaologie und Geschichte Griechenlands und Zyperns] 3(1996) 7-12.

I. Nikolakopoulou, “Aspects of Interaction between the Cyclades and the Mainland in the Middle Bronze Age,” in F. Felten, W. Gauss, and R. Smetana (eds.), Middle Helladic Pottery and Synchronisms [Ägina-Kolonna Forschungen und Ergebnisse I] (Vienna 2007) 347-359.

I. Nikolakopoulou, “Middle Cycladic Iconography: A Social Context for ‘A New Chapter in Aegean Art’,” in O. Krzsyzkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren [BSA Studies 18] (London 2010) 213-222.

I. Nikolakopoulou, Akrotiri, Thera. Middle Bronze Age Pottery and Stratigraphy I-II [Bibliotheke tes Archaiologikes Etaireias Athenon 318-319] (Athens 2019).

I. Nikolakopoulou, F. Georma, A. Moschou, and P. Sophianou, “Trapped in the Middle: New Stratigraphic and Ceramic Evidence from Middle Cycladic Akrotiri, Thera,” in N. Brodie, J. Doole, G. Gavalas, and C. Renfrew (eds.), ORIZON. A Colloquium on the Prehistory of the Cyclades (Cambridge 2008) 311-324.

G. F. Overbeck, Graves and Burial Customs at Ayia Irini, Kea (Ph.D. dissertation, SUNY at Albany 1974).

G. F. Overbeck, “The Development of Grave Types at Ayia Irini, Kea,” in J. A. MacGillivray and R. L. N. Barber (eds.), The Prehistoric Cyclades (Edinburgh 1984) 114-118.

G. F. Overbeck, “Repertory of Decorative Motifs on Middle Cycladic Pottery from Ayia Irini, Kea,” TUAS 10(1985) 1-4.

J. C. Overbeck, “The Hub of Commerce: Keos and Middle Helladic Greece,” TUAS 7(1982) 38-49.

J. C. Overbeck, “Stratigraphy and Ceramic Sequence in Middle Cycladic Ayia Irini, Kea,” in J. A. MacGillivray and R. L. N. Barber (eds.), The Prehistoric Cyclades (Edinburgh 1984) 108-113.

J. C. Overbeck, Keos VII,1: Ayia Irini: Period IV, Stratigraphy and Find Groups (Mainz 1989).

J. C. Overbeck, The Bronze Age Pottery from the Kastro at Paros [SIMA-PB 78] (Jonsered 1989).

J. C. Overbeck, “The Middle Bronze Age Sequences of Kea and Aegina,” in F. Felten, W. Gauss, and R. Smetana (eds.), Middle Helladic Pottery and Synchronisms [Agina-Kolonna Forschungen und Ergebnisse I] (Vienna 2007) 339-346.

J. C. Overbeck and D. M. Crego, “The Commercial Foundation and Development of Ayia Irini IV (Keos),” in N. Brodie, J. Doole, G. Gavalas, and C. Renfrew (eds.), ORIZON. A Colloquium on the Prehistory of the Cyclades (Cambridge 2008) 305-309.

J. C. and G. F. Overbeck, “Consistency and Diversity in the Middle Cycladic Era,” in J. L. Davis and J. F. Cherry (eds.), Papers in Cycladic Prehistory (Los Angeles 1979) 106-121.

N. Papadimitriou, Built Chamber Tombs of Middle and Late Bronze Age Date in Mainland Greece and the Islands [BAR-IS 925] (Oxford 2001).

Z. Papadopoulou, “Middle Cycladic Pictorial Pottery from Antiparos. The Case of the ‘Nippled Jug with Birds’,” in A. G. Vlachopoulos (ed.), ΧΡΩΣΤΗΡΕΣ/Paintbrushes: Wall-painting and Vase-painting of the Second Millennium BC in Dialogue (Athens 2018) 183-194.

A. G. Papagiannopoulou, The Influence of Middle Minoan Pottery on the Cyclades [SIMA-PB 96] (Göteborg 1991).

A. Papagiannopoulou, “From Pots to Pictures: Middle Cycladic Figurative Art from Akrotiri, Thera,” in N. Brodie, J. Doole, G. Gavalas, and C. Renfrew (eds.), ORIZON. A Colloquium on the Prehistory of the Cyclades (Cambridge 2008) 433-449.

A. Papagiannopoulou, “Mesokykladike eikonistike paradose os prodromos ton toichographion,” in C. Doumas (ed.), Trianta chronia erevnas, 1967-1997 (Athens 2008) 239-259.

L. Parlama, M. Theochare, S. Bonatsos, Ch. Romanou, and Y. Manos, “Palamari Skyrou: e pole tes Meses Chalkokratias,” 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) 281-289.

C. Picon, “A Group of Cycladic Vases in New York,” in N. Chr. Stampolides (ed.), GENETHLION: Anamnestikos tomos yia ten symplerose eikosi chronon leitourgias tou Mouseiou Kykladikes Technes (Athens 2006) 35-42.

F. Scerra, “I rapporti fra Creta e Keos nel periodo fra i Primi e i Secondi Palazzi,” Creta Antica 6(2005) 113-130.

S. Sherratt, Catalogue of Cycladic Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum: The Captive Spirit I-II (Oxford 2000).

P. Sotirakopoulou, “The Cycladic Middle Bronze Age: A ‘Dark Age’ in Aegean Prehistory or a Dark Spot in Archaeological Research?,” 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) 825-837.

T. Whitelaw, “The Development of an Island Center: Urbanization at Phylakopi on Melos,” in J. Cherry, C. Scarre, and S. Shennan (eds.), Explaining Social Change: Studies in Honour of Colin Renfrew (Cambridge 2004) 149-166.

T. Whitelaw, “A Tale of Three Cities: Chronology and Minoanization at Phylakopi in Melos,” in A. Dakouri-Hild and S. Sherratt (eds.), AUTOCHTHON: Papers Presented to O. T. P. K. Dickinson on the Occasion of His Retirement [BAR-IS 1432] (Oxford 2005) 37-69.


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