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Lesson 3.5: Central and Southern Greece: Funerary Architecture and Burial Customs

Lesson 3 Bibliography: The Eutresis and Korakou Cultures of Early Helladic I-II

V. Aravantinos and K. Psaraki, “Mounds over Dwellings: The Transformation of Domestic Spaces into Community Monuments in EH II Thebes, Greece,” in E. Borgna and S. Müller Celka (eds.), Ancestral Landscapes: Burial Mounds in the Copper and Bronze Ages (Lyon 2011) 401-413.

V. Aravantinos and K. Psaraki, “Oi Protoelladikoi tymvoi tes Thevas,” in D. Katsonopoulou (ed.), Helike IV: Archaia Helike kai Aigialeia. Protoelladika: E notia kai kentrike Ellada; Ancient Helike and Aigialeia. Protohelladika: The Southern and Central Greek Mainland (Athens 2011) 279-293.

E. Balomenou, “Sta ichne enos protoelladikou nekrotapheiou (?) ston Schoino,” in K. Kissas and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), The Corinthia and the Northeast Peloponnese: Topography and History from Prehistoric Times until the End of Antiquity [Athenaia 4] (Munich 2013) 169-174.

K. Branigan, “The Round Graves of Levkas Reconsidered,” BSA 70(1975) 37-49.

W. Cavanagh and C. Mee, A Private Place: Death in Prehistoric Greece [SIMA 125] (Jonsered 1998) 15-22.

E. Chatzipouliou-Kallire, “An Early Helladic II Tomb by Lake Vouliagmeni, Perachora,” BSA 78(1983) 369-375.

M. Cultraro, “Il tipo di tomba ipogeica a grotticella artificiale in ambito egeo: Alcune osservazioni,” in L’ipogeismo nel Mediterraneo (Sassari 2000) 473-499.

M. Cultraro, “Combined Efforts Till Death: Funerary Ritual and Social Statements in the Aegean Early Bronze Age,” in N. Laneri (ed.), Performing Death: Social Analyses of Funerary Traditions in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean [Oriental Institute Seminars 3] (Chicago 2007) 81-108.

O. Dickinson, “Continuities and Discontinuities in Helladic Burial Customs during the Bronze Age,” in A. Dakouri-Hild and M. J. Boyd (eds.), Staging Death: Funerary Performance, Architecture and Landscape in the Aegean (Berlin 2016) 317-334.

A. Harding, “The Tumulus in European Prehistory: Covering the Body, Housing the Soul,” in E. Borgna and S. Müller Celka (eds.), Ancestral Landscapes: Burial Mounds in the Copper and Bronze Ages (Lyon 2011) 21-32.

N. G. L. Hammond, “The Tumulus-burials of Leucas and their Connections in the Balkans and Northern Greece,” BSA 69(1974) 129-144.

I. Kilian-Dirlmeier, Die bronzezeitlichen Gräber bei Nidri auf Leukas: Ausgrabungen von W. Dörpfeld 1903-1913 (Mainz 2005).

M. Koumouzelis, “La tombe préhistorique d'Élis: Ses relations avec le Sud-Est Européen et les Cyclades,” AAA 14(1981) 265-272.

M. Koumouzelis, “Protoelladiko osteophylakeio sto spelaio Limnes Vouliagmenes Perachoras,” AD 44-46A[1989-1991] (1996) 223-238.

F. Mavridis and Z. Tankosic, “Early Bronze Age Burial Deposits at the Ayia Triada Cave at Karystos, Euboia: Tentative Interpretations,” Hesperia 85(2016) 207-242.

P. McGeorge, “Intramural Infant Burials in the Aegean Bronze Age: Reflections on Symbolism and Eschatology with Particular Reference to Crete,” in O. Henry (ed.), Le mort dans la ville: Pratiques, contextes et impacts des inhumations intra-muros en Anatolie, du début de l’Âge du Bronze à l’époque romaine (Istanbul 2013) 1-19.

C. Merkouri and M. Kouli, “The Spatial Distribution and Location of Bronze Age Tumuli in Greece,” in E. Borgna and S. Müller Celka (eds.), Ancestral Landscapes: Burial Mounds in the Copper and Bronze Ages (Lyon 2011) 203-218.

S. Müller, "Les tumuli helladiques: où? quand? comment?," BCH 113(1989) 1-42.

S. Müller Celka, “L'origine balkanique des tumuli helladiques (HA-HM): réflexions sur l'état de la question,” in I. Galanaki, H. Tomas, Y. Galanakis, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Between the Aegean and Baltic Seas: Prehistory across Borders [Aegaeum 27] (Liège/Austin 2007) 

S. Müller Celka, “Burial Mounds and ‘Ritual Tumuli’ of the Aegean Early Bronze Age,” in E. Borgna and S. Müller Celka (eds.), Ancestral Landscapes: Burial Mounds in the Copper and Bronze Ages (Lyon 2011) 415-428.

M. Pantelidou Gopha, Tsepi Marathonos: To protoelladiko nekrotapheio (Athens 2005).

D. J. Pullen, “Early Helladic Burials at Asine and Early Bronze Age Mortuary Practices,” in R. Hägg and G. C. Nordquist (eds.), Celebrations of Death and Divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid (Stockholm 1990) 9-12.

D. J. Pullen, “Modelling Mortuary Behavior on a Regional Scale: A Case Study from Mainland Greece in the Early Bronze Age,” in P. N. Kardulias (ed.), Beyond the Site: Regional Studies in the Aegean Area (Lanham 1994) 113-136.

J. Rambach, “To PE I Nekrotapheio tes Archaias Elidas,” in Praktika tou Z’ Diethnous Synedriou Peloponnesiakon Spoudon B (Athens 2007) 63-92.

A. Sampson, “The Early Helladic Graves of Manika: Contributions to the Socioeconomic Conditions of the Early Bronze Age,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), THANATOS: Les coutumes funéraires en Égée à l'Age du Bronze [Aegaeum 1] (Liège 1987) 19-28.

A. Sampson, Manika II: O protoelladikos oikismos kai to nekrotapheio (Athens 1988).

A Sampson, Skoteine Tharrounion: To spelaio, o oikismos, kai to nekrotapheio (Athens 1993).

E. Sapouna-Sakellarakis, “New Evidence from the Early Bronze Age Cemetery at Manika,” BSA 82(1987) 233-264.

E. Sapouna-Sakellarake, “Neoi taphoi ste Manika Chalkidas (Oikopeda Papastamatiou),” Archeion Euboïkon Meleton 27(1986-87) 5-21.

D. M. Smith, “Reconciling Identities in Life and Death: The Social Child in the Early Helladic Peloponnese,” Childhood in the Past 4(2011) 46-62.

W. D. Taylour and R. Janko, “The Bronze Age Burials,” in W. D. Taylour and R. Janko (eds.), Ayios Stephanos: Excavations at a Bronze Age and Medieval Settlement in Southern Laconia [BSA Supplementary Volume 44] (London 2008) 121-144.

A. Theodorou-Mavrommatidi, “A Composite Pendant in an EH I Burial at the Apollo Maleatas Site in Epidauros: An Attempt at a Biography,” in H. Cavanagh, W. Cavanagh, and J. Roy (eds.), Honouring the Dead in the Peloponnese (Nottingham 2011) 773-780.

A. Vasilogamvrou, “Protoelladiko nekrotapheio sto Kalamaki Elaiochoriou-Lousikon Achaïas,” in Pepragmena tou EDiethnous Synedriou Peloponnesiakon Spoudon (Athens 1996-97) A: 366-399.

A. Vasilogamvrou, “The Early Helladic Cemetery at Kalamaki in the Northwest Peloponnese,” in Y. Tzedakis, H. Martlew, and M. K. Jones (eds.), Archaeology Meets Science: Biomolecular Investigations in Bronze Age Greece. The Primary Scientific Evidence 1997-2003 (Oxford 2008) 249-251.

E. Weiberg, “The Invisible Dead: The Case of the Argolid and Corinthia during the Bronze Age,” in H. Cavanagh, W. Cavanagh, and J. Roy (eds.), Honouring the Dead in the Peloponnese (Nottingham 2011) 781-796.

E. Weiberg, “An Early Helladic Burial – Connecting the Living and the Dead,” in A.-L. Schallin (ed.), Perspectives on Ancient Greece: Papers in Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Swedish Institute at Athens (Stockholm 2013) 29-47.


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