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Lesson 3.6: Central and Southern Greece: Pottery

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

E. Alram-Stern, “Die vormykenische Keramik,” in E. Alram-Stern and S. Deger-Jalkotzy (eds.), Aigeira I: Die mykenische Akropolis: Vormykenische Keramik, Kleinfunde, Archäologische und Archäobotanische Hinterlassenschafter, Naturwissenschafliche Datierung (Vienna 2006) 19-88.

E. Alram-Stern, “Early Helladic II Pottery from Midea in the Argolid: Forms and Fabrics Pointing to Special Use and Import,” in E. Alram-Stern and B. Horejs (eds.), Pottery Technologies and Sociocultural Connections between the Aegean and Anatolia during the 3rd Millennium BC (Vienna 2018) 161-181.

M. Attas, Regional Ceramic Trade in Early Bronze Age Greece: Evidence from Neutron Activation Analysis of Early Helladic Pottery from Argolis and Korinthia (Ph.D. dissertation, McGill University 1982).

M. Attas, J. M. Fossey, and L. Yaffe, “An Archaeometric Study of Early Bronze Age Pottery Production and Exchange in Argolis and Korinthia (Corinthia), Greece,” JFA 14(1987) 77-90.

L. Berger, Die Frühhelladisch II Keramik von Ägina Kolonna und ihre Stellung im ägäischen Raum (Ph.D. dissertation, Universität Salzburg 2003).

L. Berger, “Neue Ergebnisse zur FH II-Keramik aus der prähistorischen Innenstadt,” in E. Alram-Stern, Die ägäische Frühzeit. Forschungsbericht 1975-2002. II, 1-2: Die Frühbronzezeit in Griechenland mit Ausnahme von Kreta (Vienna 2004) 1093-1103.

L. Berger, “Die Keramik von Ägina Kolonna zur Zeit der grossen Korridorhäuser (FH II),” in G. Grabherr and B. Kainrath (eds.), Akten des 11. Österreichischen Archäologentages in Innsbruck [Ikarus 3] (Innsbruck 2008) 57-64. [= L. Berger, “Die Keramik von Ägina Kolonna zur Zeit der großen Korridorhäuser (FH II),” Forum Archaeologiae 39/VI/2006 (http://farch.net)]

L. Berger, “Zur Terminologie und Definition der Oberflächenbehandlung anstand gebrannter Gefässe in der prähistorischen Keramikforschung,” in B. Horejs, R. Jung, and P. Pavuk (eds.), Analysing Pottery: Processing – Classification – Publication (Bratislava 2010) 29-37.

L. Berger, "The Late Early Helladic II Pottery of Aegina Kolonna," 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) 249-258.

L. Berger, “Frühhelladische Kreuzbandschalen (Red Cross Bowls) aus Ägina. Vorläufer, Parallelen und mögliche Kontinuität,” in F. Blakolmer, C. Reinholdt, J. Weilhartner, and G. Nightingale (eds.), Österreichische Forschungen zur Ägäischen Bronzezeit 2009 (Vienna 2011) 53-62.

L. Berger, “Social Change – Cultural Change - Technological Change: Archaeological Studies and Scientific Analyses of Early Aeginetan Pottery,” in E. Alram-Stern and B. Horejs (eds.), Pottery Technologies and Sociocultural Connections between the Aegean and Anatolia during the 3rd Millennium BC (Vienna 2018) 183-196.

L. Berger, “A Group of Early Helladic Fire Stands in a Rock Cavity at Aegina Kolonna: Evidence for Eastern Impacts?,” in S. W. E. Blum, T. Efe, T. I. Kienlin, and E. Pernicka (eds.), From Past to Present. Studies in Memory of Manfred O. Korfmann (Bonn 2020) 263-278

L. Berger and W. Gauss, “Early Bronze Age Aegina Kolonna: A View from a Southwest Aegean Centre,” in E. Pernicka, S. Ünlüsoy, and S. Blum (eds.), Early Bronze Age Troy: Chronology, Cultural Development and Interregional Contacts (Tübingen 2016) 209-228.

N. Boroffka and T. Stapelfeldt, “Bemerkungen zu einer balkanischen Gefässform: Die Saucière,” Arheologia Moldovei 18(1995) 277-288.

C. Burke, P. Day, E. Alram-Stern, K. Demakopoulou, and A. Hein, “Crafting and Consumption Choices: Neolithic – Early Helladic II Ceramic Production and Distribution, Midea and Tiryns, Mainland Greece,” in E. Alram-Stern and B. Horejs (eds.), Pottery Technologies and Sociocultural Connections between the Aegean and Anatolia during the 3rd Millennium BC (Vienna 2018) 145-159.

C. Burke, P. M. Day, and A. Kossyva, “Early Helladic I and Talioti Pottery: Is It Just a Phase We’re Going Through,” OJA 39(2020) 19-40.

C. Burke. P. M. Day, and D. J. Pullen, “The Contribution of Petrography to Understanding the Production and Consumption of Early Helladic Ceramics from Nemea, Mainland Greece,” in M. F. Ownby, I. C. Druc, and M. A. Masucci (eds.), Integrative Approaches in Ceramic Petrography (Salt Lake City 2017) 104-115.

X. Charalambidou, E. Kiriatzi, N. S. Müller, M. Georgakopoulou, S. Müller Celka, and T. Krapf, “Eretrian Ceramic Products through Time: Investigating the Early History of a Greek Metropolis,” JAS: Reports 7(2016) 530-535. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.01.012]

M. Choleva, “Travelling with the Potter’s Wheel in the Early Bronze Age Aegean,” BSA 115(2020) 59-104. [doi:10.1017/S0068245420000064]

W. Donovan, A Study of Early Helladic Pottery with Painted Decoration (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cincinnati 1961; University Microfilms 61-5219).

K. Douni, La céramique du Bronze Ancien II en Attique (Ph.D. dissertation, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne 2015).

K. Douni, “EB II Ceramic Production in Attica,” in N. Papadimitriou, J. C. Wright, S. Fachard, N. Polychronakoou-Sgouritsa, and E. Andrikou (eds.), Athens and Attica in Prehistory: Proceedings of the International Conference, 27-31 May 2015 (Oxford 2020) 279-288.

L. L. Fahy, The Early Helladic Sauceboat (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cincinnati 1962).

J. Forsén, “The Early Helladic Pottery from the ‘Mastos’ in the Berbati Valley, Argolid,” in E. Alram-Stern, Die ägäische Frühzeit. Forschungsbericht 1975-2002. II, 2: Die Frühbronzezeit in Griechenland mit Ausnahme von Kreta (Vienna 2004) 1159-1166.

J. Forsén, “Spoons to Fill the Cups,” in W. Gauss, M. Lindblom, R. A. K. Smith, and J. C. Wright (eds.), Our Cups Are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (Oxford 2011) 65-67.

J. M. Fossey and M. K. Mogelonsky, “The Typology of Early Helladic Pottery: A Comparison of the Vouliagmeni (Perakhora) - Asine System with the Proposed Tiryns System,” PZ 58(1983) 106-113.

W. Gauss and E. Kiriatzi, Pottery Production and Supply at Bronze Age Kolonna, Aegina: An Integrated Archaeological and Scientific Study of a Ceramic Landscape [Ägina-Kolonna Forschungen und Ergebnisse V] (Vienna 2011).

I. Giannakakis, Elladikoi proïstorikoi pithoi: Apothekeftika angeia ste notia epeirotike Ellada (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Ioannina 2015).

S. Hemingway, “Early Helladic Vases from Zygouries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Cultural Ambassadors of an Early Age” in W. Gauss, M. Lindblom, R. A. K. Smith, and J. C. Wright (eds.), Our Cups Are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (Oxford 2011) 97-103.

J. Hilditch, E. Kiriatzi, K. Psaraki, and V. Aravantinos, “Early Helladic II Pottery from Thebes: An Integrated Typological, Technological and Provenance Study,” in Y. Facorellis, N. Zacharias, and K. Polikreti (eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry [BAR-IS 1746] (Oxford 2008) 263-268.

I. Iliopoulos, V. Xanthopoulou, and P. Tsolis-Katagas, “A Petrographic Assessment of Houseware and Storage Pithoi in the Early Helladic Settlement of Helike, Achaea, Greece,” 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) 127-142.

K. Kalogeropoulos, “Protoelladike keramike apo to Pazaraki Ramnountos,” ArchEph (2019) 131-194.

S. Katsarou-Tzeveleki, “Morphology and Distribution of Pottery at the Early Helladic Settlement of Helike,” 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) 89-126.

D. Katsonopoulou, I. Ilioupoulos, S. Katsarou, and V. Xanthopoulou, “Craftsmanship of the Storage Pithoi in the Early Helladic Settlement of Helike, Achaea,” in E. Photos-Jones, Y. Bassiakos, E. Filippaki, A. Hein, I. Karatasios, V. Kilikoglou, and E. Kouloumpi (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry [BAR-IS 2780] (Oxford 2016) 13-20.

G. Kordatzaki, E. Kiriatzi, and J. Rambach, “Ceramic Traditions in Southwestern Peloponnese during the Early Helladic II Period: The Romanos Pylias Case Study,” in E. Alram-Stern and B. Horejs (eds.), Pottery Technologies and Sociocultural Connections between the Aegean and Anatolia during the 3rd Millennium BC (Vienna 2018) 249-266.

E. Kunze, Orchomenos III: Die Keramik der frühen Bronzezeit (Munich 1934).

L. Labriola, “First Impressions: A Preliminary Account of Matt-impressed Pottery in the Prehistoric 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) 309-322.

J. A. MacGillivray, “The Early Helladic Pottery,” 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) 159-176.

P. Michalopoulos, E kerameike tes Proïmes Epoches tou Chalkou sto Aigio: E periptose tou oikopedou Minasian A-B (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Athens 2019).

J. Morin, “La qualité de la céramique helladique ancien II du site du lac Vouliagmeni, Perakhora, secteur A',” in Praktika tou C' Diethnous Synedriou Peloponnesiakon Spoudon II (Athens 1987-88) 359-368.

S. P. Morris, “Wine and Water in the Bronze Age: Fermenting, Mixing and Serving Vessels,” in L. A. Hitchcock, R. Laffineur, and J. Crowley (eds.), DAIS: The Aegean Feast [Aegaeum 29] (Liège/Austin 2008) 113-123.

S. P. Morris, “Dairy Queen. Churns and Milk Products in the Aegean Bronze Age,” Opuscula 7(2014) 205-222.

K. Müller, Tiryns IV: Die Urfirniskeramik (Munich 1938).

S. Müller-Celka, E. Kiriatzi, X. Charalambidou, and N. S. Müller, “Early Helladic II-III Pottery Groups from Eretria (Euboea),” in E. Alram-Stern and B. Horejs (eds.), Pottery Technologies and Sociocultural Connections between the Aegean and Anatolia during the 3rd Millennium BC (Vienna 2018) 197-213.

M. Nazou, Defining the Regional Characteristics of Final Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Pottery in Attica (Ph.D. dissertation, University College London 2014).

K. Ntouni, La céramique du Bronze Ancien II en Attique (Ph.D. dissertation, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne 2015).

M. Pantelidou Gopha, “Nea evremata apo to Tsepi Marathonos,” in E. Konsolaki-Giannopoulou (ed.), EPATHLON. Archaiologiko Synedrio pros timen tou Adonidos K. Kyrou, Poros, 7-9 Iouniou 2002 (Athens 2007) 105-116.

M. Pantelidou-Gofa, “The EH I Deposit Pit at Tsepi, Marathon: Features, Formation and the Breakage of the Finds,” in N. Brodie, J. Doole, G. Gavalas, and C. Renfrew (eds.), ORIZON. A Colloquium on the Prehistory of the Cyclades (Cambridge 2008) 281-289.

G. A. Papathanasopoulos, “To phortio tou protoelladikou navagiou tou Dokou: oi ramphostomes phiales-lychnoi,” in E. Konsolaki-Yiannopoulou (ed.), Argosaronikos: Praktika 1ou Diethnous Synedriou Istorias kai Archaiologias tou Argosaronikou (Athens 2003) 129-138.

A. Pentedeka, E. Kiriatzi, and E. Zachou, “Technologike kai proelefsiake melete keramikes Proïmes Epoches Chalkou apo ton Proskyna Lokridas,” Archaiologiko Ergo Thessalias kai Stereas Helladas 2: Praktika epistemonikes synanteses, Volos 16.3 – 19.3.2006 (Volos 2009) 931-940.

A. Pentedeka, C. Morgan, and A. Sotiriou, “Early Helladic Pottery Traditions in Western Greece: The Case of Kephalonia and Ithaca,” in E. Alram-Stern and B. Horejs (eds.), Pottery Technologies and Sociocultural Connections between the Aegean and Anatolia during the 3rd Millennium BC (Vienna 2018) 267-285.

K. Psaraki, “Protoelladike kerameike apo ten pole tes Thevas. Anaskaphe sto oikopedo epektases tou Archaiologikou Mouseiou Thevon,” in V. Aravantinos and E. Kountouri (eds.), 100 Chronia Archaiologikou Ergou ste Theva. Oi protergates ton erevnon kai oi synechistes tous (Athens 2014) 97-115.

D. J. Pullen, "The Pottery of the Neolithic, Early Helladic I, and Early Helladic II Periods," in C. Runnels, D. J. Pullen, and S. Langdon (eds.), Artifact and Assemblage: The Finds from a Regional Survey of the Southern Argolid, Greece I: The Prehistoric and Early Iron Age Pottery and the Lithic Artifacts (Stanford 1995) 6-42.

D. J. Pullen, “Picking Out Pots in Patterns: Feasting in Early Helladic Greece,” in W. Gauss, M. Lindblom, R. A. K. Smith, and J. C. Wright (eds.), Our Cups Are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (Oxford 2011) 217-226.

L. Rahmstorf, “Zur Ausbreitung vorderasiatische Innovationen in die frühbronzezeitliche Ägäis,” PZ 81(2006) 49-96.

J. Rambach, “Ein frühbronzezeitlichen Tongefässfragment mit Tierkopfprotome aus Olympia,” in Olympia-Bericht 12(2003) 226-256.

J. Rambach, “Romanos – Navarino Dunes in the Pylia: The Early Helladic II Settlement and the Case of the Early Helladic II Well,” in E. Alram-Stern and B. Horejs (eds.), Pottery Technologies and Sociocultural Connections between the Aegean and Anatolia during the 3rd Millennium BC (Vienna 2018) 215-248.

D. B. Roberson, Changing Times and Domestic Goods: An Investigation into the Organization of Pottery Production in Lerna III and IV (MA thesis, University of Arizona 2018).

J. B. Rutter, “Early Helladic Pottery: Inferences about Exchange and Production from Style and Clay Composition,” in C. and P. Zerner and J. Winder (eds.), Wace and Blegen: Pottery as Evidence for Trade in the Aegean Bronze Age 1939-1989 (Amsterdam 1993) 19-37.

T. Saramandi and A. Moraïtou, “Conservation of the Ceramic Finds from the Dokos Wreck,” Enalia Annual 3(1995) 38-45.

C. M. Shriner, Ceramic Technology at Lerna, Greece in the Third Millennium B.C.: Economic and Social Implications (Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University 1999).

C. Shriner and M. J. Dorais, “A Comparative Electron Microprobe Study of Lerna III and IV Ceramics and Local Clay-rich Sediments,” Archaeometry 41(1999) 25-49.

A. Theodorou-Mavrommatidi, “The Early Helladic Sauceboat: Reshaped and Reconsidered,” Praktika tou Z’ Diethnous Synedriou Peloponnesiakon Spoudon (Athens 2007) B: 241-259.

Y. Vichos, “Ship (?) Engraving on a Jug Handle from the Cargo of the Dokos EH II Wreck,” Enalia Annual 3(1995) 46-47.

A. J. B. Wace and C. W. Blegen, “The Pre-Mycenaean Pottery of the Greek Mainland,” BSA  22(1916-18) 175-189.

H.-J. Weisshaar, “Ein tirynther Gefäss mit frühbronzezeitlicher Tierdarstellung,” AM 96 (1981) 1-5.

H.-J. Weisshaar, “Frühhelladische Tierkopfgefässe,” Gedenkschrift für Gero von Merhart zum 100. Geburtstag [Marburger Studien zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte 7] (Marburg/Lahn 1986) 328-335.

H.-J. Weisshaar, “Reliefpithoi und Herdplatten aus Tiryns,” in I. Pini (ed.), Fragen und Probleme der bronzezeitlichen ägäischen Glyptik [CMS Beiheft 3] (Berlin 1989) 315-322.

H.-J. Weisshaar, “Die Keramik von Talioti,” Tiryns XI (Mainz 1990) 1-34.

H.-J. Weisshaar, “Keramik des Südwest-Ägäischen Chalkolithikums von Ägina,” in Festschrift für Otto-Herman Frey zum 65. Geburtstag [Marburger Studien zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte 16] (Marburg 1994) 675-689.

M. H. Wiencke, “Banded Pithoi of Lerna III,” Hesperia 39(1970) 94-110.

M. H. Wiencke, Lerna. A Preclassical Site in the Argolid IV: The Architecture, Stratification, and Pottery of Lerna III (Princeton 2000).


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