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Lesson 17.13: The Late Bronze Age on Islands of the West and Central Aegean Other than Thera

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

N. D. Abell, “Migration, Mobility, and Craftspeople in the Aegean Bronze Age: A Case Study from Ayia Irini on the Island of Kea,” World Archaeology 46(2014) 551-568.

N. D. Abell, Reconsiderng a Cultural Crossroads: A Diachronic Analysis of Ceramic Production, Consumption, and Exchange Patterns at Bronze Age Ayia Irini, Kea, Greece (PhD dissertation, Univeersity of Cincinnati 2014).

N. Abell, Keos XII: Ayia Irini: Area B (Lockwood Press, 2021).

N. Abell and J. Hilditch, “Adoption and Adaptation in Pottery Production Practices: Investigating Cycladic Community Interactions through the Ceramic Record of the Second Millennium BC,” in E. Gorogianni, P. Pavúk, and L. Girella (eds.), Beyond Thalassocracies: Understanding Processes of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation in the Aegean (Oxford/Philadelphia 2016) 155-171.

M. E. Alberti, “Ayia Irini: les poids de balance dans leur contexte,” Quaderni ticinesi di numismatica e antichità classiche 24(1995) 9-37.

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).

E. Banou, “Ta lithina antikeimena apo to minoïko iero koryphes ston A. Giorge sto Vouno Kytheron,” Pepragmena tou Η' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A2: 383-394.

E. Banou, “Ta Kythera anamesa ste minoïke Krete kai te mykenaïke Peloponneso: Ta mikroantikeimena apo to minoïko iero koryphes ston A. Giorge sto Vouno,” Praktika A' Diethnous Synedriou Kytheraïkon Meleton (Kythera 2003) 69-75.

E. Banou, “Minoïka iera koryphes: e periptose tou Agiou Georgiou sto vouno Kytheron,” in EPATHLON: Archaiologikon Synedrion pros timen tou Adonidos K. Kyrou (Athens 2007) A': 285-294.

R. L. N. Barber, “Phylakopi 1911 and the History of the Later Cycladic Bronze Age,” BSA 69(1974) 1-53.

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

R. Barber, “Hostile Mycenaeans in the Cyclades?,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 133-139.

R. L. N. Barber, “Mykenaioi ste Phylakopi?,” in H periphereia tou mykenaïkou kosmou [A' Diethnes Diepistemoniko Symposio, Lamia, 25-29 Septembriou 1994] (Lamia 1999) 315-320.

R. L. N. Barber, “Unpublished Pottery from Phylakopi,” BSA 103(2008) 43-222.

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. A. Belza, (Re)assessing the Western String Model:Archaeological Data from the Cyclades Post-1979 (MA thesis, University of Cincinnati 2018).

I. Berg, The Minoanisation of the Southern Aegean: A Comparative Approach through Ceramic Assemblages (Ph.D. dissertation, Cambridge University 2000).

I. Berg, “The Meanings of Standardisation: Conical Cups in the Late Bronze Age Aegean,” Antiquity 78(2004) 74-85.

I. Berg, “The ‘Western String’: A Reassessment,” in E. Tampakaki and A. Kalousakis (eds.), Pepragmena tou Θ' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2006) A4: 135-150.

I. Berg, “Meaning in the Making: The Potter’s Wheel at Phylakopi, Melos (Greece),” JAA 26(2007) 234-252.

I. Berg, Negotiating Island Identities: The Active Use of Pottery in the Middle and Late Bronze Age Cyclades (Piscataway 2007).

I. Berg, Breaking the Mould: Challenging the Past through Pottery [BAR-IS 1861] (Oxford 2008).

I. Berg, “Recapturing the Sea: The Past and Future of ‘Island Archaeology’ in Greece,” Shima 4(2010) 16-26.

I. Berg, “Exploring the chaïne opératoire of Ceramics through X-Radiography,” in S. Scarcella (ed.), Archaeological Ceramics: A Review of Current Research (Oxford 2011) 57-63.

I. Berg, The Cycladic and Aegean Islands in Prehistory (Abingdon/New York 2019).

I. Berg and S. Blieden, “The Pots of Phylakopi: Applying Statistical Techniques to Archaeology,” Chance 13(2000) 8-15.

A. Bevan, E. Kiriatzi, C. Knappett, E. Kappa, and S. Papachristou, “Excavation of Neopalatial Deposits at Tholos (Kastri), Kythera,” BSA 97(2002) 55-96.

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

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C. Broodbank, “Minoanisation,” Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 50(2004) 46-91.

C. Broodbank, J. Bennet, and J. L. Davis, “Aphrodite Observed: Insularity and Antiquities on Kythera through Outsiders’ Eyes,” in J. F. Cherry, C. Scarre and S. Shennan (eds.), Explaining Social Change: Studies in Honour of Colin Renfrew (Cambridge 2004) 227-239.

C. Broodbank and E. Kiriatzi, “Pottery Mobility, Landscape Survey and Maritime Activity: A View from Kythera,” in Y. Galanakis, T. Wilkinson, and J. Bennet (eds.), ΑΘΥΡΜΑΤΑ: Critical Essays on the Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honour of E. Susan Sherratt (Oxford 2014) 41-49.

C. Broodbank, E. Kiriatzi, and J. Rutter, “From Pharoah’s Feet to the Slave Women of Pylos? The History and Cultural Dynamics of Kythera in the Third Palace Period,” 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) 70-96.

C. Broodbank, T. Rehren, and A.-M. Zianni, “Scientific Analyses of Metal Objects and Metallurgical Remains from Kastri, Kythera,” BSA 102(2007) 219-238.

T. Carter, K. Mallinson, V. Mastrogiannopoulou, D. A. Contreras, C. Diffey, C. Lopez, M. N. Pareja, G. Tsartsidou, and D. Athanasoulis, “A New Minoan-type Peak Sanctuary on Stelida, Naxos,” JGA 6(2021) 60-99.

J. L. Caskey, Investigations in Keos. Part I: Excavations and Explorations, 1966-70,” Hesperia 40(1971) 359-396.

J. L. Caskey, Investigations in Keos. Part II: A Conspectus of the Pottery,” Hesperia 41(1972) 357-401.

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M. Caskey and N. Tountas, Ayia Irini: Some New Architectural Details,” in L. G. Mendoni and A. J. Mazarakis Ainian (eds.), Kea - Kythnos. History and Archaeology (Athens 1998) 695-697.

J. F. Cherry and J. L. Davis, The Cyclades and the Greek Mainland in LC I: the Evidence of the Pottery,” AJA 86(1982) 333-341.

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M. B. Cosmopoulos, Ceramic Regionalism and Artistic Interaction: The LH IIIA1-IIIA2 Evidence from Grotta,” in R. Laffineur and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), TEXNH: Craftsmen, Craftswomen and Craftsmanship in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 16] (Liège/Austin 1997) 369- 376.

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M. B. Cosmopoulos, E Naxos kai to kreto-mykenaïko Aigaio. Stromatographia, keramike, oikonomike organose tou Ysteroelladikou I-IIIB oikismou tes Grottas [Archaiognosia Supplement 3] (Athens 2004).

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J. Cutler, “Fashioning Identity: Weaving Technology, Dress and Cultural Change in the Middle and Late Bronze Age Southern Aegean,” in E. Gorogianni, P. Pavúk, and L. Girella (eds.), Beyond Thalassocracies: Understanding Processes of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation in the Aegean (Oxford/Philadelphia 2016) 172-185.

E. Davis, “Brush Work,” in P. P. Betancourt, M. C. Nelson, and H. Williams (eds.), Krinoi kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw (Philadelphia 2007) 145-150.

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J. L. Davis, Epei ou'toi piar hyp'oudas: Thoughts on Prehistoric and Archaic Delos,” TUAS 7(1982) 23-33.

J. L. Davis, Review of Aegean Prehistory I: The Islands of the Aegean,” AJA 96(1992) 699-756.

J. L. Davis, The Islands of the Aegean,” in T. Cullen (ed.), Aegean Prehistory: A Review (Boston 2001) 19-76.

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J. L. Davis and J. F. Cherry, “The Cycladic Pottery from Late Bronze I Levels,” in C. Renfrew (ed.), Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos 1974-77 [BSA Supplementary Volume 42] (London 2007) 265-306.

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J. W. Earle, “A Cycladic Perspective on Mycenaean Long-distance Exchanges,” JMA 25(2012) 3-26.

J. W. Earle, “Mycenaeanization on Melos: A View from the Phylakopi Pantries,” in N. Chr. Stampolidis, Ç. Maner, and K. Kopanias (eds.), NOSTOI: Indigenous Culture, Migration + Integration in the Aegean Islands +Western Anatolia during the Late Bronze + Early Iron Ages (Istanbul 2015) 369-386.

J. W. Earle, “Melos in the Middle: Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation at Late Bronze Age Phylakopi,” in E. Gorogianni, P. Pavúk, and L. Girella (eds.), Beyond Thalassocracies: Understanding Processes of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation in the Aegean (Oxford/Philadelphia 2016) 94-115.

J. W. Earle, “Just How ‘Mycenaean’ Are the Ceramics at Phylakopi on Melos?,” in E. Karantzali (ed.), 3rd International Interdisciplinary Colloquium “The Periphery of the Mycenaean World. Recent Discoveries of Research Results” (Athens 2021) 671-682.

A. Farnoux, “Délos à l'époque mycénienne: recherches en cours,” in C. and P. Zerner and J. Winder (eds.), Wace and Blegen: Pottery as Evidence for Trade in the Aegean Bronze Age 1939-1989 (Amsterdam 1993) 271-274.

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N. H. Gale, “The Role of Kea in Metal Production and Trade in the Late Bronze Age,” in L. G. Mendoni and A. J. Mazarakis Ainian (eds.), Kea - Kythnos. History and Archaeology (Athens 1998) 737-758.

N. H. Gale, Z. A. Stos-Gale, and J. L. Davis, “The Provenance of Lead Used at Ayia Irini,” Hesperia 53(1984) 389-406.

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.

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H. Georgiou, “The Role of Maritime Contacts in the Urban Development of the Prehistoric Cyclades,” in L. G. Mendoni and A. J. Mazarakis Ainian (eds.), Kea - Kythnos. History and Archaeology (Athens 1998) 211-216.

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C. Gillis, “Pottery and Statistics: A Pilot Study,” in L. G. Mendoni and A. J. Mazarakis Ainian (eds.), Kea - Kythnos. History and Archaeology (Athens 1998) 155-160.

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E. Gorogianni, “Goddess, Lost Ancestors, and Dolls: A Cultural Biography of the Ayia Irini Terracotta Statues,” Hesperia 80(2011) 635-655.

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E. Gorogianni, “Keian, Kei-noanised, Kei-cenaeanised? Interregional Contact and Identity in Ayia Irini, Kea,” in E. Gorogianni, P. Pavúk, and L. Girella (eds.), Beyond Thalassocracies: Understanding Processes of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation in the Aegean (Oxford/Philadelphia 2016) 136-154.

E. Gorogianni, “Finding oikoi: Hagia Irini, Kea from the Household Perspective,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis 19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 257-274.

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.

E. Gorogianni, J. Cutler, and R. D. Fitzsimons, “Something Borrowed, Something New: Possible Archaeological Evidence for Foreign Brides as Catalysts for Acculturation at Ayia Irini, Kea,” in N. Chr. Stampolidis, Ç. Maner, and K. Kopanias (eds.), NOSTOI: Indigenous Culture, Migration + Integration in the Aegean Islands + Western Anatolia during the Late Bronze + Early Iron Ages (Istanbul 2015) 853-886.

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.

O. Hadjianastasiou, “Some Hints of Naxian External Connections in the Earlier Late Bronze Age,” BSA 84(1989) 205-215.

O. Hadjianastasiou, “Naxian Pottery and External Relations in Late Cycladic I-II,” in C. and P. Zerner and J. Winder (eds.), Wace and Blegen: Pottery as Evidence for Trade in the Aegean Bronze Age 1939-1989 (Amsterdam 1993) 257-262.

P. A. Hadzidakis, “Une tombe mycénienne dans l'île de Mykonos,” Archéologia 333(1997) 40-47.

C. R. Hershenson, “Late Helladic IIB at Ayia Irini, Keos,” in L. G. Mendoni and A. J. Mazarakis Ainian (eds.), Kea - Kythnos. History and Archaeology (Athens 1998) 161-168.

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E. Kiriatzi, “Sherds, Fabrics and Clay Sources: Reconstructing the Ceramic Landscapes of Prehistoric Kythera,” in K. P. Foster and R. Laffineur (eds.), METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 24] (Liège/Austin 2003) 123-130.

E. Kiriatzi and C. Broodbank, “Social Places and Spaces on and beyond Kythera during the Second Palace Period: Exploring the Island’s Landscape and Connectivity,” in B. Eder and M. Zavadil (eds.), (Social) Place and Space in Early Mycenaean Greece: International Discussions in Mycenaean Archaeology, October 5-8, 2016, Athens [Mykenische Studien 35] (Vienna 2021) 365-382.

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R. B. Koehl, “Back to the Future: Memory, Nostalgia, and Identity in the 12th Century B.C.E. on Paros,” in E. Simpson (ed.), The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar: Papers Presented to Oscar White Muscarella (Leiden/Boston 2018) 423-443.

V. Lambrinoudakis and O. Philaniotou-Hadjianastasiou, “The Town of Nexos at the End of the Late Bronze Age: The Mycenaean Fortification Wall,” in V. Karageorghis and C. E. Morris (eds.), Defensive Settlements of the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean after c. 1200 B.C. (Nicosia 2001) 157-169.

M. Marthari, “The Griffin Jar from Ayia Irini, Keos, and Its Relationship to the Pottery and Frescoes from Thera,” in L. G. Mendoni and A. J. Mazarakis Ainian (eds.), Kea - Kythnos. History and Archaeology (Athens 1998) 139-154.

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.

L. Morgan, “The Wall Paintings of the North-East Bastion at Ayia Irini, Kea,” in L. G. Mendoni and A. J. Mazarakis Ainian (eds.), Kea - Kythnos. History and Archaeology (Athens 1998) 201-210.

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P. A. Mountjoy and M. J. Ponting, “The Minoan Thalassocracy Reconsidered: Provenance Studies of LH IIA/LM IB Pottery from Phylakopi, Ay. Irini and Athens,” BSA 95(2000) 141-184.

P. A. Mountjoy, “The Mycenaean and Late Minoan I-II Pottery,” in C. Renfrew (ed.), Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos 1974-77 [BSA Supplementary Volume 42] (London 2007) 307-370.

P. A. Mountjoy, “The Cyclades during the Mycenaean Period,” in N. Brodie, J. Doole, G. Gavalas, and C. Renfrew (eds.), ORIZON. A Colloquium on the Prehistory of the Cyclades (Cambridge 2008) 467-477.

P. A. Mountjoy, “The Late Minoan II-III and Mycenaean Pottery from the 1911 Excavations at Phylakopi on Melos,” BSA 104(2009) 73-135.

N. D. Mountzas and E. Kolaiti, “Historical Coastal Evolution of the Ancient Harbor of Aegina in Relation to the Upper Holocene Relative Sea Level Changes in the Saronic Gulf, Greece,” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 392(2013) 411-425.

N. Mourtzas and E. Kolaiti, “Holocene Sea Level Changes and Palaeogeographic Reconstruction of the Ayia Irini Prehistoric Settlement (Keos Island, Cyclades Archipelago, Greece),” in M. Ghilardi (ed.), Géoarchéologie des îles de Méditerranée. Geoarchaeology of the Mediterranean Islands (Paris 2016) 119-135.

C. Nuttall, “Friend or Foe: ‘Mycenaeanisation’ at Phylakopi on Melos in the Late Bronze Age,” Rosetta 16(2014) 15-36.

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N. Polychronakou-Sgouritsa, “E Kimolos ste mykenaïke periodo,” ArchDelt 49-50A(1998) 1-12.

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