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Lesson 2.5: Figurines

Lesson 2 Bibliography: The Neolithic Cultures of Thessaly, Crete, and the Cyclades

E. Alram-Stern, “Men with Caps: Chalcolithic Figurines from Ägina-Kolonna and their Ritual Use,” in E. Alram-Stern, F. Blakolmer, S. Deger-Jalkotzy, R. Laffineur, and J. Weilhartner (eds.), Metaphysis: Ritual, Myth and Symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 39] (Liège 2016) 15-20.

E. Alram-Stern, “Die chalkolithischen Statuetten von Ägina-Kolonna,” JOAI 85[2016] (2017) 7-56.

D. W. Bailey, Prehistoric Figurines: Representation and Corporeality in the Neolithic (London/New York 2005).

G. C. Chourmouziades, E Anthropomorphike Eidoplastike tes Neolithikes Thessalias (Volos 1973).

K. Gallis, "Tracing the Relation of a Neolithic Figurine to a Specific Individual of the Neolithic Society of Thessaly (Greece)," in R. M. Boehmer and J. Maran (eds.), Lux Orientis: Archäologie zwischen Asien und Europa. Festschrift für Harald Hauptmann zum 65. Geburtstag (Rahden 2001) 139-143.

K. J. Gallis and L. Orphanidis, “Twenty New Faces from the Neolithic Society of Thessaly,” in J.-C. Decourt, B. Helly, and K. Gallis (eds.), La Thessalie. Quinze années de recherches archéologiques, 1975-1990: Bilans et perspectives (Athens 1994) 154-162.

K. Gallis and L. Orphanidis, Figurines of Neolithic Thessaly I (Athens 1996).

M. Gimbutas, The Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe, 6000-3500 B.C. Myths and Cult Images (London 1982).

R. King and P. A. Underhill, “Congruent Distributions of Neolithic Painted Pottery and Ceramic Figurines with Y-Chromosome Lineages,” Antiquity 76(2002) 707-714.

D. Kokkinidou, “In Pursuit of the Goddess: Neolithic Imagery, Marija Gimbutas, and Debates in Feminism and Archaeology,” 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) 67-80.

D. Kokkinidou and M. Nikolaïdou, "Body Imagery in the Aegean Neolithic: Ideological Implications of Anthropomorphic Figurines," in J. Moore and E. Scott (eds.), Invisible People and Processes: Writing Gender and Childhood into European Archaeology (London/New York 1997) 88-112.

N. Kyparissi-Apostolika, “Mia Neolithike avletria apo te Magoula Koutroulou sto Neo Monasteri Phthiotidas,” in M.-Ph. Papakonstantinou, Ch. Kritsas, and I. P. Touratsoglou (eds.), Pyrra: Meletes yia ten archaiologia sten Kentrike Ellada pros timen tes Phanourias Dakoronia A’: Proïstorikoi Chronoi (Athens 2018) 135-146.

C. Marangou, EIDOLIA: Figurines et miniatures du Néolithique récent et du Bronze ancien en Grèce (Oxford 1992).

C. Marangou, "Neolithic Micrography: Miniature Modelling at Dimitra," in D. Grammenos (ed.), Neolithike Makedonia (Athens 1997) 227-266.

C. Marangou, "Assembling, Displaying, and Dissembling Neolithic and Eneolithic Figurines and Models," JEA 4(1996) 177-202.

C. Marangou, "Neolithic Figurines from Northern Greece," in S. Hiller and V. Nikolov (eds.), Karanovo III: Beiträge zum Neolithikum in Südosteuropa (Vienna 2000) 229-244.

C. Marangou and D. Grammenos, “’Monumentality’, Functionality, Animality: On an Unusual Prehistoric Clay Head from Central Macedonia, Greece, and its Implications,” BSA 100(2005) 1-40.

A. Mari, “Neolithika eidolia, kosmemata kai lithina mikroantikeimena apo to Spelaio tou Evripide,” in A. Vlachopoulos and K. Birtacha (eds.), ARGONAUTIS: Timetikos tomos gia ton Kathegete Christo G. Douma apo tous mathetes tou sto Panepistimio Athenon (1980-2000) (Athens 2003) 38-58.

M. Mina, “Gendering Figurines, Engendering People in Early Aegean Preshistory,” in C. Briault, J. Green, A. Kaldelis, and A. Stellatou (eds.), SOMA 2003: Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology [BAR-IS 1391] (Oxford 2005) 111-114.

M. Mina, Anthropomorphic Figurines from the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Aegean: Gender Dynamics and Implications for the Understanding of Early Aegean Prehistory (Oxford 2008).

M. Mina, “Carving Out Gender in the Preshistoric Aegean: Anthropomorphic Figurines of the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age,” JMA 21(2008) 213-239.

S. Nanoglou, “Subjectivity and Material Culture in Thessaly, Greece: The Case of Neolithic Anthropomorphic Imagery,” CAJ 15(2005) 141-156.

S. Nanoglou, “Regional Perpectives on the Neolithic Anthropomorphic Imagery of Northern Greece,” JMA 19(2006) 155-176.

S. Nanoglou, “Housing People in Aegean Prehistory,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 275-288.

A. Pentedeka, “Links of Clay in Neolithic Greece: The Case of Platia Magoula Zarkou,” in A. Brysbaert (ed.), Tracing Prehistoric Social Networks through Technology: A Diachronic Perspective on the Aegean (New York/London 2011) 106-125.

W. W. Phelps, "Prehistoric Figurines from Corinth," Hesperia 56 (1987) 233-253.

C. Renfrew, “The Sculptures of Neolithic Saliagos,” in M. Marthari, C. Renfrew, and M. J. Boyd (eds.), Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context (Oxford 2017) 23-29.

J. B. Rutter, “Children in Aegean Prehistory,” in J. Neils and J. Oakley (eds.), Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past (New Haven, 2003) 30-57.

A. Sampson and V. Mastrogiannopoulou, “Figurines from the Late Neolithic Settlement of Ftelia, Mykonos,” in M. Marthari, C. Renfrew, and M. J. Boyd (eds.), Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context (Oxford 2017) 30-38.

E. Skaphida, "Neolithika anthropomorpha eidolia tou Diminiou," in Diethnes Synedrion gia ten Archaia Thessalia (1992) 166-179.

E. Skafida, “Symbols from the Aegean World: The Case of Late Neolithic Figurines and House Models from Thessaly,” in H. Erkanal, H. Hauptmann, V. Sahoglou, and R. Tuncel (eds.), The Aegean in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age (Ankara 2008) 517-532.

E. Skaphida and G. Toufexis, "Figurines de la fin de l'époque néolithique en Thessalie (Grèce Centrale)," in P. Roman and M. Alexianu (eds.), Relations thraco-illyro-helléniques [Actes du XIVe Symposium International de Thracologie] (Bucharest 1994) 12-24.

L. Talalay, "Rethinking the Function of Clay Figurine Legs from Neolithic Greece: An Argument by Analogy," AJA 91(1987) 161-169.

L. Talalay, Deities, Dolls, and Devices: Neolithic Figurines from Franchthi Cave, Greece [Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece, fascicule 9] (Bloomington 1993).

L. Talalay, "A Feminist Boomerang: The Great Goddess of Greek Prehistory," Gender and History 6 (1994) 165-183.

L. Talalay, “Archaeological Ms.conceptions: Contemplating Gender and Power in the Greek Neolithic,” in M. Donald and L. Hurcombe (eds.), Representations of Gender from Prehistory to the Present (London 2000) 3-16. 

C. A. Televantou, “Figurines from Strofilas, Andros,” in M. Marthari, C. Renfrew, and M. J. Boyd (eds.), Early Cycladic Sculpture in Context (Oxford 2017) 39-51.

G. Toufexis, "Neolithic Animal Figurines from Thessaly," in J.-C. Decourt, B. Helly, and K. Gallis (eds.), La Thessalie. Quinze années de recherches archéologiques, 1975-1990: Bilans et perspectives (Athens 1994) 163-168.

G. Toufexis, “Animals in the Neolithic Art of Thessaly,” in E. Kotjabopoulou, Y. Hamilakis, P. Halstead, C. Gamble, and P. Elefanti (eds.), Zooarchaeology in Greece: Recent Advances [BSA Studies 9] (London 2003) 263-271.

G. Toufexis, “Tria pelina zoomorpha antikeimena apo ton oikismo tes telikes Neolithikes epoches ste these Palioskala, N. Larisas,” Archaiologiko Ergo Thessalias kai Stereas Helladas 2: Praktika epistemonikes synanteses, Volos 16.3 – 19.3.2006 (Volos 2009) 85-99.

G. Toufexis and E. Skafida, “Neolithic House Models from Thessaly, Greece,” in R. Grifoni Cremonesi, C. Tozzi, A. Vigliardi, and C. Peretto (eds.), Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences 3 (Forlì 1998) 339-344.

P. J. Ucko, Anthropomorphic Figurines of Predynastic Egypt and Neolithic Crete (London 1968).


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