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Lesson 17.6: The Site of Akrotiri and its Architecture

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

K. Birtacha, “’Cooking’ Installations in LC IA Akrotiri on Thera: A Preliminary Study of the ‘Kitchen’ in Pillar Shaft 65,” in N. Brodie, J. Doole, G. Gavalas, and C. Renfrew (eds.), ORIZON. A Colloquium on the Prehistory of the Cyclades (Cambridge 2008) 349-376.

D. Constantinidis, “From Fields to Feasts: Interpreting Aegean Architecture and Iconography in Relation to Feast Preparations,” in L. A. Hitchcock, R. Laffineur, and J. Crowley (eds.), DAIS: The Aegean Feast [Aegaeum 29] (Liège/Austin 2008) 65-74.

C. Doumas, “Akrotiri, Thera: Some Additional Notes on its Plan and Architecture,” in P. P. Betancourt, M. C. Nelson, and H. Williams (eds.), Krinoi kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw (Philadelphia 2007) 85-92.

A. Karnava and I. Nikolakopoulou, “More Oikoi at Akrotiri, Thera: Phyliscal and Social Landscapes in the New North/North-west Neighbourhood of the LB I Settlement,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis 19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 237-256.

N. Marinatos, “The West House at Akrotiri as a Cult Center,” AM 98(1983) 1-19.

A. Michailidou, “The Settlement at Akrotiri (Thera): Theoretical Approach to the Function of the Upper Storey,” in P. Darcque and R. Treuil (eds.), L'habitat égéen préhistorique [BCH Supplément 19] (Paris 1990) 293-306.

A. Michailidou, Akrotiri Theras: E melete ton orophon sta kteria tou oikismou (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Thessaloniki 1991).

A. Michailidou, Akrotiri Theras: E melete ton orophon sta kteria tou oikismou [Bibliotheke tes en Athenais Archaiologikes Etaireias 212] (Athens 2001).

E. Notti, “A Catalogue of the Masons’ Marks at Akrotiri,” Pasiphae 8(2014) 97-136.

E. Notti, “On the Ashlar Walls of Late Bronze Age Akrotiri (Thera),” in M. Devolder and I. Kreierman (eds.), Ashlar. Exploring the Materiality of Cut-Stone Masonry in the Eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age [Aegis 17] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 421-   .

C. Palyvou, “The Destruction of the Town at Akrotiri, Thera, at the Beginning of LC I: Rebuilding Activities,” in J. A. McGillivray and R. L. N. Barber (eds.), The Prehistoric Cyclades (Edinburgh 1984) 134-147.

C. Palyvou, “Notes on the Town Plan of Late Cycladic Akrotiri, Thera,” BSA 81(1986) 179-194.

C. Palyvou, Akrotiri Theras: oikodomike techne kai morphologika stoicheia sten ysterokykladike architechtonike (Ph.D. dissertation, Athens Polytechnic Institute 1988).

C. Palyvou, “Architectural Design at Late Cycladic Akrotiri,” TAW III.1(1990) 44-56.

C. Palyvou, "Observations sur 85 fenêtres du cycladique récent à Théra," in P. Darcque and R. Treuil (eds.), L'habitat égéen préhistorique [BCH Supplément 19] (Paris 1990) 123-139. 

K. Palyvou, Akrotiri Theras: E oikodomike techne (Athens 1999).

C. Palyvou, Akrotiri, Thera: An Architecture of Affluence 3,500 Years Old (Philadelphia 2005).

C. Palyvou, “An Architectural Style of Openness and Mutability as Stimulus for the Development of an Earthquake-resistant Building Technology at Akrotiri, Thera, and Minoan Crete,” in S. Jusseret and M. Sintubin (eds.), Minoan Earthquakes: Breaking the Myth through Interdisciplinarity (Louvain-la-Neuve 2017) 249-266.

T. Sali-Axioti, “The Lightwell of the House of the Ladies and its Structural Behaviour,” TAW III.1(1990) 437-440.

J. W. Shaw, “New Evidence for Aegean Roof Construction from Bronze Age Thera,” AJA 81(1977) 229-233.

J. W. Shaw, “Consideration of the Site of Akrotiri as a Minoan Settlement,” TAW II.1(1978) 429-436.

J. W. Shaw, “Bronze Age Aegean Harborsides,” TAW III.1(1990) 420-436.

J. W. Shaw, “Roof Drains and Parapets in the Southern Aegean,” BSA 99(2004) 173-188.

E. Yiannouli, Reason in Architecture: The Component of Space. A Study of Domestic and Palatial Buildings in Bronze Age Greece (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cambridge 1992).


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