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Lesson 2.6: Lithics

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

D. Binder and C. Perlès, "Stratégies de gestion des outillages lithiques au Néolithique," Paleo 2 (1990) 257-277.

T. Carter, “The Chipped and Ground Stone,” in J. and B. Forsén, The Asea Valley Survey. An Arcadian Mountain Valley from the Palaeolithic Period until Modern Times (Stockholm 2003) 129-157.

J. F. Cherry and R. Torrence, "The Typology and Chronology of Chipped Stone Assemblages in the Prehistoric Cyclades," in J. A. MacGillivray and R. L. N. Barber (eds.), The Prehistoric Cyclades (Edinburgh 1984) 12-25.

D. Chondrou, S. M. Valamoti, H. Procopiou, and L. Papadopoulou, “Grinding Cereals and Pulses in the Neolithic Site of Kleitos: An Experimental Investigation of Microconglomerate Grinding Equipment, Final Products and Use Wear,” JGA 3(2018) 23-46.

S. Dimitriadis and K. Skourtopoulou, “Characterization of Lithic Materials by Petrographic and SEM Techniques: Towards Suggestions of Chipped Stone Provenance from Neolithic Sites in Northern Greece,” in Y. Bassiakos, E. Aloupi, and Y. Facorellis (eds.), Archaeometry Issues in Greek Prehistory and Antiquity (Athens 2001) 779-791.

P. Elefanti, N. Andreasen, P. N. Kardulias, and G, Marshall (eds.), Lithics Past and Present: Perspectives on Chipped Stone Studies in Greece [SIMA 144] (Uppsala 2016). 

E. Elster, "The Chipped Stone Industry," in M. Gimbutas, S. Winn, and D. Shimabuku, Achilleion. A Neolithic Settlement in Thessaly, Greece, 6400-5600 B.C. (Los Angeles 1989) 273-306.

E. S. Elster, “Prehistoric Tools in Thessaly: Achilleion, Makrychori 2 and Plateia Magoula Zarkou,” in J.-C. Decourt, B. Helly, and K. Gallis (eds.), La Thessalie. Quinze années de recherches archéologiques, 1975-1990: Bilans et perspectives (Athens 1994) 169-176.

I. Gatsov and P. Nedelcheva, “Lithic Production before and after the 4th Millennium BC in the Lower Danube, South East Bulgaria, Marmara Region and Eastern Aegean,” in B. Horejs and M. Mehofer (eds.), Western Anatolia before Troy: Proto-Urbanisation in the 4th Millennium BC? (Vienna 2014) 413-419.

M. Georgiadis, “A Synthesis of the Neolithic nd Early Bronze Age Ground Stone Tools from the Dodecanese,” Archaiologiko Ergo sta Nesia tou Aigaiou 3(2017) 17-30.

M. Kaczanowska, J. K. Kozlowski, and A. Sampson, “Neolithic Chipped Stone Industries from the Island of Rhodes: A Case Study of the Ayios Georgios Cave near Kalythies,” in B. Avunç (ed.), Studies in Honor of Hayat Erkanal (Istanbul 2006) 458-466.

A. Karabatsoli and L. Karimali, “Étude comparative des industries lithiques taillées du Néolithique Final et du Bronze Ancien Égéen: le cas de Pefkakia,” in H. Erkanal, H. Hauptmann, V. Sahoglou, and R. Tuncel (eds.), The Aegean in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age (Ankara 2008) 251-262.

P. N. Kardulias and R. W. Yerkes (eds.), Written in Stone: The Multiple Dimensions of Lithic Analysis (London/New York 2003).

E. Karimali, “Lithic Technologies and Use,” in E. Blake and A. B. Knapp (eds.), The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory (Oxford 2005) 180-214.

L. Karimali, “Katanome lithinon proton ylikon ste Neolithike Thessalia: Mia synkritike exetase,” Archaiologiko Ergo Thessalias kai Stereas Helladas 2: Praktika epistemonikes synanteses, Volos 16.3 – 19.3.2006 (Volos 2009) 17-29.

V. Kilikoglou, Y. Bassiakos, A. P. Grimanis, K. Souvatsis, A. Pilali-Papasteriou, and A. Papanthimou-Papaefthimiou, “Carpathian Obsidian in Macedonia, Greece,” JAS 23(1996) 341-349.

G. Kourtessi-Philippakis, “Local vs. exogène? L’impact du milieu naturel sur la composition des assemblages lithiques néolithiques in Grèce,” in G. Touchais, R. Laffineur, and F. Rougemont (eds.), PHYSIS: L’environnement naturel et la relation homme-milieu dans le monde égéen protohistorique [Aegaeum 37] (Liège 2014) 15-22.

J. K. Kozlowski, M. Kaczanowska, and M. Pawlikowski, "Chipped-stone Industries from Neolithic Levels at Lerna," Hesperia 65 (1996) 295-372.

H. A. Moundrea-Agrafioti, "Palaioethnologika symperasmata apo te melete ton lithinon kai osteïnon ergaleion tou neolithikou oikismou Prodromou Karditsas," Thessalika Chronika 13(1980) 489-497.

H. A. Moundrea-Agrafioti, La Thessalie du sud-est au Néolithique: outillage lithique et osseux (Ph.D. dissertation, Université de Paris X 1981).

H. A. Moundrea-Agrafioti, "Pièces lustrées du Néolithique thessalien: Essai de classement," in M-C. Cauvin (ed.), Traces d'utlisation sur les outils néolithiques du Proche-Orient (Lyon 1983) 199-207.

H. A. Moundrea-Agrafioti, "Problèmes d'emmanchement dans le Néolithique grec: les gaines et manches en bois de cervide," in D. Stordeur (ed.), La main et l'outil. Manches et emmanchements préhistoriques (Lyon 1987) 247-256.

H. A. Moundrea-Agrafioti, "Agios Petros Kyra-Panagias. Stoicheia tes lithotechnias tou laxemenou lithou," Diethnes synedrio gia ten Archaia Thessalia ste mneme tou Demetriou P. Theochare (Athens 1992) 191-202.

A. Moundrea-Agrafioti and C. Gnardellis, "Outils tranchants thessaliens en pierre polie: Un réexamen de la typologie de Christos Tsountas," Les cahiers de l'analyse des données 16:2 (1991) 161-178.

A. Moundrea-Agrafioti and C. Gnardellis, "Classification des outils tranchants thessaliens en pierre polie par les methodes multidimensionelles,” in J.-C. Decourt, B. Helly, and K. Gallis (eds.),  La Thessalie. Quinze années de recherches archéologiques, 1975-1990: Bilans et perspectives (Athens 1994) 189-200.

C. Perlès, Les industries lithiques taillés de Franchthi (Argolide, Grèce) I: Présentation générale et industries paléolithiques [Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece, fascicule 3] (Bloomington 1987).

C. Perlès, "Les industries du Néolithique précéramique de Grèce: nouvelles études, nouvelles interpretations," in J. K. Kozlowski (ed.), Chipped Stone Industries of the Early Farming Cultures in Europe (Warsaw/Cracow 1987) 19-39.

C. Perlès, "New Ways with an Old Problem: Chipped Stone Assemblages as an Index of Cultural Discontinuity in Early Greek Prehistory," in E. B. French and K. A. Wardle (eds.), Problems in Greek Prehistory (Bristol 1988) 477-488.

C. Perlès, "L'outillage de pierre taillée néolithique en Gréce: approvisionnement et exploitation des matières premières," BCH 114(1990) 1-42.

C. Perlès, Les industries lithiques taillés de Franchthi (Argolide, Grèce) II: Les industries du Mésolithique et du Néolithique initial [Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece, fascicule 5] (Bloomington 1990).

C. Perlès, Les industries lithiques taillées de Tharrounia (Eubée) (Paris 1994).

C. Perlès, “Technologie des industries lithiques thessaliennes: problèmes méthodologiques et perspectives socio-économiques,” in J.-C. Decourt, B. Helly, and K. Gallis (eds.), La Thessalie. Quinze années de recherches archéologiques, 1975-1990: Bilans et perspectives (Athens 1994) 71-78.

C. Perlès, T. Takaoglu, and B. Gratuze, “Melian Obsidian in NW Turkey: Evidence for Early Neolithic Trade,” JFA 36(2011) 44-52.

C. Perlès and P. Vaughan, "Pièces lustrées, travail des plantes et moissons à Franchthi (Grèce) (Xème - IVème millénaire B.C.)," in M. C. Chauvin (ed.), Traces d'Utilisation sur les Outils Néolithiques du Proche Orient (Lyon 1983) 209-224.

C. Perlès and K. D. Vitelli, "Craft Specialization in the Neolithic of Greece," in P. Halstead (ed.), Neolithic Society in Greece [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 2] (Sheffield 1999) 96-107.

C. Renfrew and A. Aspinall, "Aegean Obsidian and Franchthi Cave," in C. Perlès, Les industries lithiques taillés de Franchthi (Argolide, Grèce) II: Les industries du Mésolithique et du Néolithique initial [Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece, fascicule 5] (Bloomington 1990) 257-270.

C. N. Runnels, A Diachronic Study and Economic Analysis of Millstones from the Argolid, Greece (Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University 1981).

C. Runnels, "Trade and the Demand for Millstones in Southern Greece in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age," in A. B. Knapp and T. Stech (eds.), Prehistoric Production and Exchange: the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean (Los Angeles 1985) 30-43.

K. Skourtopoulou, "The Chipped Stone from Makriyalos: A Preliminary Report," in P. Halstead (ed.), Neolithic Society in Greece [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 2] (Sheffield 1999) 121-127.

A. Skourtopoulou and S. Demetriadis, "E thermike epexergasia ton pyritikon lithon stis lithotechnies tou parelthontos: to paradeigma tou neolithikou oikismou tes Thermes B," in I. Stratis, M. Babelidis, K. Kotsakis, G. Tsokas, and E. Tsoukala (eds.), Archaeometrical and Archaeological Research in Macedonia and Thrace (Thessaloniki 1996) 331-350.

T. F. Strasser, “Three Axe Groups from Neolithic Knossos,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [BSA Studies 12] (London 2004) 61-65.

T. F. Strasser, “Stones of Contention: Regional Axe Production and Hidden Landscapes on Neolithic Crete,” in V. Isaakidou and P. Tomkins (eds.), Escaping the Labyrinth: The Cretan Neolithic in Context [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 8] (Oxford 2008) 155-164.

T. Strasser and C. Fassoulas, “Granodiorite Axes from Knossos and their Implications for Neolithic Trade on Crete,” Aegean Archaeology 7(2003-04) 9-12.

A. Stroulia, “Ground Stone Celts from Franchthi Cave: A Close Look,” Hesperia 72(2003) 1-30.

A. Stroulia, “Making Tools, Reconstructing Manufacturing Processes: The Celt Industry of Varemini Goulon in Northern Greece,” JGA 3(2018) 47-74.

C. Tsoraki, “Unravelling Ground Stone Life Histories: The Spatial Organization of Stone Tools and Human Activities at LN Makriyialos, Greece,” Documenta Praehistorica 34(2007) 289-297.

C. Tsoraki, “Disentangling Neolithic Networks: Ground Stone Technology, Material Engagements and Networks of Action,” in A. Brysbaert (ed.), Tracing Prehistoric Social Networks through Technology: A Diachronic Perspective on the Aegean (New York/London 2011) 12-29.

P. Vaughan, "Use-wear Analysis of Mesolithic Chipped Stone Artifacts," in C. Perlès, Les industries lithiques taillés de Franchthi (Argolide, Grèce) II: Les industries du Mésolithique et du Néolithique initial [Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece, fascicule 5] (Bloomington 1990) 239-257.

K. I. Wright, “The Origins and Development of Ground Stone Assemblages in Late Pleistocene Southwest Asia,” Paléorient 17(1991) 19-45.

K. I. Wright, “A Classification System for Ground Stone Tools from the Prehistoric Levant,” Paléorient 18(1992) 53-81.


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