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Lesson 2.2: Major Synthetic Treatments of the Greek Neolithic

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

E. Alram-Stern (ed.), Das Neolithikum in Griechenland, mit Ausnahme von Kreta und Zypern [Die Ägäische Frühzeit, 2. Serie, Forschungsbericht 1975-1993] I (Vienna 1996).

E. Alram-Stern, "Zum Forschungsstand des mittel- und südgriechischen Neolithikums," in S. Hiller and V. Nikolov (eds.), Karanovo III: Beiträge zum Neolithikum in Südosteuropa (Vienna 2000) 245-252.

E. Alram-Stern, “Das Chalkolithikum in Südgriechenland. Versuch einer chronologischen und topographischen Gliederung,” in F. Lang, C. Reinholdt, and J. Weilhartner (eds.), STEPHANOS ARISTEIOS. Archäologische Forschungen zwischen Nil und Istros: Festschrift für Stefan Hiller zum 65. Geburtstag (Vienna 2007) 1-10.

E. Alram-Stern, “Times of Change: Greece and the Aegean during the 4th Millennium BC,” in B. Horejs and M. Mehofer (eds.), Western Anatolia before Troy: Proto-Urbanisation in the 4th Millennium BC? (Vienna 2014) 305-327.

A. J. Ammerman and L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe (Princeton 1984).

S. Andreou, M. Fotiadis, and K. Kotsakis, "Review of Aegean Prehistory V: The Neolithic and Bronze Age of Northern Greece," in T. Cullen (ed.), Aegean Prehistory: A Review (Boston 2001) 259-327.

D. W. Bailey, Balkan Prehistory: Exclusion, Incorporation and Identity (London 2000).

C. Broodbank, "Colonization and Configuration in the Insular Neolithic of the Aegean," in P. Halstead (ed.), Neolithic Society in Greece [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 2] (Sheffield 1999) 15-41.

C. Broodbank, An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades (Cambridge 2000).

W. G. Cavanagh, “WYSIWYG: Settlement and Territoriality in Southern Greece during the Early and Middle Neolithic Periods,” JMA 17(2004) 165-189.

J.-P. Demoule, "Les recherches récentes en Grèce septentrionale et les problèmes chronologiques et régionaux des cultures à céramique au graphite," in J. Lichardus (ed.), Kupferzeit als historische Epoche (Saarbrucken 1991) 227-236.

J.-P. Demoule, “Problèmes chrono-culturels du Néolithique de Grèce du Nord,” in J.-C. Decourt, B. Helly, and K. Gallis (eds.), La Thessalie. Quinze années de recherches archéologiques, 1975-1990: Bilans et perspectives (Athens 1994) 79-90.

J.-P. Demoule and C. Perlès, "The Greek Neolithic: A New Review," Journal of World Prehistory 7 (1993) 355-416.

S. R. Diamant, The Later Village Farming Stage in Southern Greece (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania 1974).

A. Dousougli and K. Zachos, “L’archéologie des zones montagneuses: modèles et interconnexions dans le Néolithique de l’Épire et de l’Albanie méridionale,” in G. Touchais and J. Renard (eds.), L’Albanie dans l’Europe préhistorique [BCH Supplément 42] (Athens 2002) 111-143.

N. Efstratiou, “The Beginning of the Neolithic in Greece – Probing the Limits of a ‘Grand’ Narrative,” in S. Antoniadou and A. Pace (eds.), Mediterranean Crossroads (Athens 2007) 123-138.

N. Efstratiou, “The Neolithic of the Aegean Islands: A New Picture Emerging,” in H. Erkanal, H. Hauptmann, V. Sahoglou, and R. Tuncel (eds.), The Aegean in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age (Ankara 2008) 159-164.

W. Ekschmitt, Kunst und Kultur der Kykladen I: Neolithikum und Bronzezeit (Mainz 1986).

K. D. Fowler, Neolithic Mortuary Practices in Greece [BAR-IS 1314] (Oxford 2004).

D. Grammenos (ed.), Neolithike Makedonia (Athens 1997).

D. Grammenos, "Neolithika themata apo te Makedonia kai ten evretere tes perioche," in D. Grammenos (ed.), Neolithike Makedonia (Athens 1997) 267-367.

P. Halstead, What’s Ours Is Mine? Village and Household in Early Farming Society in Greece (Amsterdam 2006). 

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

M. Korkuti, Neolithikum und Chalkolithikum in Albanien (Mainz 1995).

K. Kotsakis, “Mesolithic to Neolithic in Greece: Continuity, Discontinuity or Change of Course?” Documenta Prehistorica 28(2001) 63-73.

K. Kotsakis, “From the Neolithic Side: The Mesolithic/Neolithic Interface in Greece,” in N. Galanidou and C. Perlès (eds.), The Greek Mesolithic: Problems and Perspectives [BSA Studies 10] (London 2003) 217-221.

S. I. Michalopoulou, E Archaiotere Neolithike ste Dytike Makedonia: E symvole tes meletes tou zooarchaiologikou ylikou ton theseon Phyllotsairi Mavropeges kai Portes Xerolimnes (PhD dissertation, University of Athens 2017).

V. Nikolov, “The Neolithic and the Chalcolithic Periods in Northern Thrace,” TÜBA-AR 6(2003) 21-83.

L. Nikolova, The Balkans in Later Prehistory: Periodization, Chronology and Cultural Development in the Final Copper and Early Bronze Age (Fourth and Third Millennia B.C.) [BAR-IS 791] (Oxford 1999).

K. Nowicki, Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean (Berlin 2014).

M. Özdogan, “Neolithic Cultures of Northwestern Turkey,” in S. Bökönyi (ed.), Neolithic of Southeastern Europe and its Near Eastern Connections (Budapest 1989) 201-215.

M. Özdogan, “Northwestern Turkey: Neolithic Cultures in between the Balkans and Anatolia,” in M. Özdogan and N. Basgelen (eds.), Neolithic in Turkey: The Cradle of Civilization (Istanbul 1999) 203-224.

M. Özdogan and N. Basgelen (eds.), Neolithic in Turkey: The Cradle of Civilization (Istanbul 1999).

M. Özdogan and I. Gatsov, "The Aceramic Neolithic Period in Western Turkey and in the Aegean," Anatolica 24(1998) 209-232.

D. Papaconstantinou, “Looking for ‘Texts’ in the Neolithic Aegean: Space, Place and the Study of Domestic Architecture,” in H. Erkanal, H. Hauptmann, V. Sahoglou, and R. Tuncel (eds.), The Aegean in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age (Ankara 2008) 407-410.

G. A. Papathanasopoulos (ed.), Neolithic Culture in Greece (Athens 1996).

M. Pappa, “Neolithic Societies: Recent Evidence from Northern Greece,” in H. Todorova, M. Stefanovich, and G. Ivanov (eds.), The Struma/Strymon River in Prehistory. In the Steps of James Harvey Gaul (Sofia 2007) 2: 257-272.

M. Patton, Islands in Time: Island Sociogeography and Mediterranean Prehistory (London 1996).

C. Perlès, "La Néolithisation de la Grèce," in O. Aurenche and J. Cauvin (eds.), Néolithisations. Proche et Moyen Orient, Mediterranée orientale, Nord de l'Afrique, Europe méridionale, Chine, Amérique du Sud [BAR-IS  516] (Oxford 1989) 109-127.

C. Perlès, "Les débuts du Néolithique en Grèce," La Recherche 266 (1994) 642-649.

C. Perlès, "Systems of Exchange and Organization of Production in Neolithic Greece," JMA 5:2 (1992) 115-164.

C. Perlès, The Early Neolithic in Greece: The First Farming Communities in Europe (Cambridge 2001).

W. Phelps, The Neolithic Pottery Sequence in Southern Greece [BAR-IS 1259] (Oxford 2004).

D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996).

C. Runnels, “The Origins of the Greek Neolithic: A Personal View,” in A. J. Ammerman and P. Biagi (eds.), The Widening Harvest (Boston 2003) 121-133.

A. Sampson, E Neolithike kai e Protoelladike I sten Evvoia (Athens 1981).

A. Sampson, E Neolithike periodos sta Dodekanisa (Athens 1987).

A. Sampson, Proïstoria tou Aigaiou: Palaiolithike-Mesolithike-Neolithike (Athens 2006).

A. Sampson, “From the Mesolithic to the Neolithic: New Data on Aegean Prehistory,” in H. Erkanal, H. Hauptmann, V. Sahoglou, and R. Tuncel (eds.), The Aegean in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age (Ankara 2008) 503-516.

S. G. Souvatsi, A Social Archaeology of Households in Neolithic Greece: An Anthropological Approach (Cambridge 2008).

G. Stratouli, “Soziale und ökonomische Aspekte des Chalkolithikums (Spätneolithikum II) in der Ägäis aufgrund alter und neuer Angaben,” in H. Erkanal, H. Hauptmann, V. Sahoglou, and R. Tuncel (eds.), The Aegean in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age (Ankara 2008) 559-568.

D. Theochares, E avge tes Thessalikes proïstorias (Athens 1967).

D. Theochares (ed.), Neolithic Greece (Athens 1973).

P. Tomkins, “Filling in the ‘Neolithic Background’: Social Life and Social Transformation in the Aegean Before the Bronze Age,” in J. C. Barrett and P. Halstead (eds.), The Emergence of Civilisation Revisited [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 5] (Oxford 2004) 38-63.

P. Tomkins, “Domesticity by Default. Ritual, Ritualization and Cave-use in the Neolithic Aegean,” OJA 28(2009) 125-153.

P. Tomkins, “About Time. Rehabilitating Chronology in the Interpretation of Settlement in East Crete between the Neolithic and Early Minoan I,” Creta Antica 19(2018) 45-92.

R. Treuil, Le néolithique et le bronze ancien égéens (Paris 1983).

L. Vagnetti, "The Final Neolithic: Crete Enters the Wider World," Cretan Studies 5 (1996) 29-39.

T. H. van Andel and C. Runnels, "The Earliest Farmers in Europe," Antiquity 69 (1995) 481-500.

L. V. Watrous, "Review of Aegean Prehistory III: Crete from Earliest Prehistory through the Protopalatial Period," AJA 98 (1993) 695-753.

S. S. Weinberg, "The Stone Age in the Aegean," Cambridge Ancient History I,1 (Cambridge 1970) 557-672.

N. C. Wilkie and M. E. Savina, "The Earliest Farmers in Macedonia," Antiquity 71 (1997) 201-207.

A. Zoes, Krete: Epoche tou Lithou (Athens 1973).

D. Zohary and M. Hopf, The Domestication of Plants in the Old World (Oxford 1988).


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