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Lesson 3.2: Central and Southern Greece: General

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

E. Alram-Stern, Die ägäische Frühzeit. Forschungsbericht 1975-2002. II, 1-2: Die Frühbronzezeit in Griechenland mit Ausnahme von Kreta (Vienna 2004).

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

P. Berktold, “Das prähistorische Akarnanien: Vom Paläolithikum zur geometrischen Zeit,” in P. Berktold, J. Schmid, and C. Wacker (eds.), Akarnanien: Eine Landschaft im antiken Griechenland (Munich/Würzburg 1996) 21-59.

K. Branigan, “The Nature of Warfare in the Southern Aegean during the Third Millennium B.C.,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 87-94.

J. L. Caskey, “The Early Helladic Period in the Argolid,” Hesperia 29(1960) 285-303.

J. L. Caskey, “Aegean Terminologies,” Historia 27(1978) 488-491.

J. E. Coleman, “An Archaeological Scenario for the 'Coming of the Greeks' ca. 3200 B.C.,” JIES 28(2000) 101-153.

J. E. Coleman, “The Petromagoula-Doliana Group and the Beginning of the Aegean Early Bronze Age,” 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) 13-44.

M. B. Cosmopoulos, The Early Bronze 2 in the Aegean [SIMA 98] (Jonsered 1991).

M. B. Cosmopoulos, The Early Bronze 2 in the Aegean: Material Remains, Processes, Peoples (Ph.D. dissertation, Washington University 1991).

M. B. Cosmopoulos, “Exchange Networks in Prehistory: The Aegean and the Mediterranean in the Third Millennium B.C.,” in R. Laffineur and L. Basch (eds.), THALASSA: L'Égée préhistorique et la mer [Aegaeum 7] (Liège 1991) 155-168.

M. B. Cosmopoulos, “The Development of Iconography in the Early Bronze 2 Aegean,” in R. Laffineur and J. L. Crowley (eds.), EIKON: Aegean Bronze Age Iconography: Shaping a Methodology [Aegaeum 8] (Liège 1992) 87-96.

M. B. Cosmopoulos, “Social and Political Organization in the Early Bronze 2 Aegean,” in R. Laffineur and W-D. Niemeier (eds.), POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège 1995) I: 23-32.

A. Douzougli-Zachou, “E Argolike pediada sten Ystere Neolithike kai Protoelladike epoche: Synopse tes problematikes apo mia diepistemonike proesengise,” in A. Pariente and G. Touchais (eds.), Argos et l'Argolide: Topographie et Urbanisme (Paris 1998) 23-39.

J. Forsén, The Twilight of the Early Helladics: A Study of the Disturbances in East-Central and Southern Greece towards the End of the Early Bronze Age [SIMA-PB 116] (Jonsered 1992).

J. Forsén, “Fifty Years On: Evaluating SIMA’s Contribution to Aegean Early Bronze Age Archaeology,” in J. M. Webb nd D. Frankel (eds.), Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology: Fifty Years On (Uppsala 2012) 43-48.

S. G. Harrison, Settlement Patterns in Early Bronze Age Greece: An Approach to the Study of a Prehistoric Society (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nottingham 1992).

R. A. McNeal, “Helladic Prehistory through the Looking-glass,” Historia 24(1975) 385-401.

S. Manning, The Absolute Chronology of the Aegean Early Bronze Age: Archaeology, Radiocarbon and History (Sheffield 1995).

J. Maran, Kulturwandel auf dem griechischen Festland und den Kykladen im späten 3. Jt. v. Chr.: Studien zu den kulturellen Verhältnissen in Südosteuropa und dem zentralen sowie östlichen Mittelmeerraum in der späten Kupfer- und frühen Bronzezeit (Habilitation; Universität Bonn 1995).

J. Maran, Kulturwandel auf dem griechischen Festland und den Kykladen im späten 3. Jt. v. Chr.: Studien zu den kulturellen Verhältnissen in Südosteuropa und dem zentralen sowie östlichen Mittelmeerraum in der späten Kupfer- und frühen Bronzezeit (Bonn 1998).

J. Maran and M. Kostoula, “The Spider’s Web: Innovation and Society in the Early Helladic ‘Period of the Corridor Houses’”, in Y. Galanakis, T. Wilkinson, and J. Bennet (eds.), ΑΘΥΡΜΑΤΑ: Critical Essays on the Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean in Honour of E. Susan Sherratt (Oxford 2014) 141-158.

M. Nikolaïdou and D. Kokkinidou, The Archaeology and Social Identity of Gender: Approaches in Aegean Prehistory (Thessaloniki 1993) <in Greek>.

A. J. Papadopoulos and S. Kontorli-Papadopoulou, “Some Thoughts on the Problem of Relations between the Aegean and Western Greece in the Early Bronze Age,” in H. Erkanal, H. Hauptmann, V. Sahoglou, and R. Tuncel (eds.), The Aegean in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age (Ankara 2008) 411-426.

D. J. Pullen, Social Organization in Early Bronze Age Greece: A Multidimensional Approach (Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University 1985; University Microfilms International 85-16653).

D. J. Pullen, "Asine, Berbati, and the Chronology of Early Bronze Age Greece," AJA  91(1987) 533-544.

D. J. Pullen, “Site Size, Territory, and Hierarchy: Measuring Levels of Integration and Social Change in Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean Societies,” in K. P. Foster and R. Laffineur (eds.), METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 24] (Liège/Austin 2003) 29-36.

D. J. Pullen, “Connecting the Early Bronze I and II Periods in the Aegean,” in H. Erkanal, H. Hauptmann, V. Sahoglou, and R. Tuncel (eds.), The Aegean in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age (Ankara 2008) 447-460.

D. J. Pullen, “The Early Bronze Age in Greece,” in C. W. Shelmerdine (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age (Cambridge 2008) 19-46.

D. J. Pullen, “Measuring Levels of Integration and Social Change in Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean Societies: From Chiefdoms to Proto-States,” in R. Terrenato and D. C. Haggis (eds.), State Formation in Italy and Greece: Questioning the Neoevolutionist Paradigm (Oxford 2011) 18-31.

D. J. Pullen, “Reciprocity and Exchange Relationships: Exploring the Dynamics of Bronze Age Social Structures through Feasting and Hospitality,” in C. Wiersma and S. Voutsaki (eds.), Social Change in Aegean Prehistory (Oxford 2017) 49-68.

J. Renard, Habitat et mode de vie dans le Péloponnèse au bronze ancien (Ph.D. dissertation, Université de Paris I 1991).

J. Renard, Le Péloponnèse au Bronze Ancien [Aegaeum 13] (Liège 1995).

C. Renfrew, The Emergence of Civilization (London 1972) 99-114.

J. B. Rutter, "Review of Aegean Prehistory II: The Prepalatial Bronze Age of the Southern and Central Greek Mainland," AJA 97(1993) 745-797, esp.758-763 and 766-774.

J. B. Rutter, "Review of Aegean Prehistory II: The Prepalatial Bronze Age of the Southern and Central Greek Mainland" and “Addendum: 1993-1999,” in T. Cullen (ed.), Aegean Prehistory: A Review (Boston 2001) 95-147 and 148-155.

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

D. M. Smith, Hierarchy in the Early Helladic Peloponnese (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Liverpool 2012).

D. M. Smith, “Recent Research in Early Helladic Southern Greece,” Archaeological Reports for 2016-2017 (2017) 107-129.

C. Souyoudzoglou-Haywood, The Ionian Islands in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age 3000 - 800 B.C. (Liverpool 1999).

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

T. van Andel, C. Runnels, and K. Pope, "Five Thousand Years of Land Use and Abuse in the Southern Argolid," Hesperia 55 (1986) 103-128.

T. H. van Andel, E. Zangger, and A. Demitrack, "Land Use and Soil Erosion in Prehistoric and Historical Greece," JFA 17(1990) 379-396.

E. Vermeule, Greece in the Bronze Age (Chicago 1972) 27-44.

A. G. Vlachopoulos (ed.), Archaeology: Euboea and Central Greece: Attica, Boeotia, Phthiotis, Eurytania, Phokis, Aetolia, Akarnania (Athens 2009).

A. G. Vlachopoulos (ed.), Archaiologia: Peloponnesos (Athens 2011).

E. Weiberg, “Timing, Perception and Response. Human Dimensions of Erosion and Sedimentation in the Greek Bronze Age,” 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) 33-40.

T. Whitelaw, “Settlement Instability and Landscape Degradation in the Southern Aegean in the Third Millennium B.C.,” in P. Halstead and C. Frederick (eds.), Landscape and Land Use in Postglacial Greece [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 3] (Sheffield 2000) 135-161.

E. Weiberg, Thinking the Bronze Age: Life and Death in Early Helladic Greece [Boreas. Uppsala Studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilizations 29] (Uppsala 2007).

E. Weiberg, “What Can Resilience Theory Do for (Aegean) Archaeology?,” in N. M. Burström and F. Fahlender (eds.), Matters of Scale. Processes and Courses of Events in Archaeology and Cultural History (Stockholm 2012) 146-165.

E. Weiberg and M. Finné, “Mind or Matter? People-Environment Interactions and the Demise of Early Helladic II Society in the Northeastern Peloponnese,” AJA 117(2013) 1-31.

M. H. Wiencke, “Art and the World of the Early Bronze Age,” in G. Cadogan (ed.), The End of the Early Bronze Age in the Aegean (Leiden 1986) 69-92.

M. H. Wiencke, “Change in Early Helladic II,” AJA 93(1989) 495-509.

K. Zachos, “Tracing a Destructive Earthquake in the Southwestern Peloponnese (Greece) during the Early Bronze Age,” in S. Stiros and R. E. Jones (eds.), Archaeoseismology [Fitch Laboratory Occasional Paper 7] (Exeter 1996) 169-185.


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