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Lesson 5.5: Architecture

Lesson 5 Bibliography: The Early Minoan Period: The Settlements

S. Alexiou, “Proanaktorikes akropoleis tes Kretes,” Pepragmena tou D' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Athens 1981) I: 9-22. 

E. Apostolaki, “Whom the House Concerned: Land Ownership and Lines of Descent in Prehistoric Crete,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 97-120.

J. Atkinson, “A Small-scale Reconstruction of the Settlement at Myrtos Phournou Koryphi,” in K. T. Glowacki and N. Vogeikoff-Brogan (eds.), STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete [Hesperia Supplement 44] (Princeton 2011) 27-38.

M. Aufschnaiter, “Frühägäische Kanalisationsanlagen: Eine Prestigesache?,” in F. Blakolmer, C. Reinholdt, J. Weilhartner, and G. Nightingale (eds.), Österreichische Forschungen zur Ägäischen Bronzezeit 2009 (Vienna 2011) 41-52.

T.-T. Daróczi, “Frühminoische Siedlungslandschaften. Eine vorläufige Studie über die relative räumliche Verbreitung der frühminoischen Siedlungen,” in K. Müller, B. Schiller, et al., Von Kreta nach Kuba: Gedankschrift zu Ehren des Berliner Archäologen Veit Stürmer (Berlin 2018) 75-84.

J. Driessen, “IIb or Not IIb: On the Beginnings of Minoan Monument Building,” in J. Bretschneider, J. Driessen, and K. van Lerberghe (eds.), Power and Architecture: Monumental Public Architecture in the Bronze Age Near East and Aegean (Leuven 2007) 73-92.

V. La Rosa, “A New Early Minoan Clay Model from Phaistos,” in O. Krzsyzkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren [BSA Studies 18] (London 2010) 189-194.

D. Leiner, “Die frühbronzezeitliche Architektur in der Ägäis. Studien zu Siedlungsformen, Urbanistik und Bauwesen,” in F. Blakolmer, C. Reinholdt, J. Weilhartner, and G. Nightingale (eds.), Österreichische Forschungen zur Ägäischen Bronzezeit 2009 (Vienna 2011) 205-218.

J. C. McEnroe, Architecture of Minoan Crete: Constructing Identity in the Aegean Bronze Age (Austin 2010) 19-43.

Y. Papadatos, “The Identification of Houses in Prepalatial Crete: Complications and Breakthroughs,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 51-62.

O. Pelon, “Un depot de fondation au palais de Malia,” BCH 110(1986) 3-19.

O. Pelon, “Travaux de l’École française en Grèce en 1988: Malia – Le Palais,” BCH 113(1989) 771-786.

O. Pelon and M. Hue, “La salle à piliers du Palais de Malia et ses antécédents,” BCH 116(1992) 1-36.

O. Pelon, “La salle à piliers du Palais de Malia et ses antécédents: recherches complémentaires,” BCH 117(1993) 523-546.

O. Pelon, “Travaux de l’École française à Athènes. Malia. Le Palais,” BCH 123(1999) 468-481.

D. Sanders, “Behavioral Conventions and Archaeology: Methods for the Analysis of Ancient Architecture,” in S. Kent (ed.), Domestic Architecture and the Use of Space (Cambridge 1990) 43-72.

J. W. Shaw, “Central Ceiling and Roof Supports in Early Minoan II Architecture,” BSA 111(2016) 51-69.

J. W. Shaw. “Access to Upper Floors and an Early Light Well at EM II Vasiliki,” BSA 112(2017) 33-45.

T. F. Strasser, “Bothroi in the Aegean Early Bronze Age,” in P. P. Betancourt, V. Karageorghis, R. Laffineur, and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), MELETEMATA: Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His 65th Year [Aegaeum 20] (Liège/Austin 1999) 813-817.

S. Todaro, “Il deposito AM I del piazzale dei Sacelli di Haghia Triada: I modellini architettonici,” Annuario 81(2003) [2005] 547-572.

S. Todaro, “The Latest Prepalatial Period and the Foundation of the First Palace at Phaistos: A Stratigraphic and Chronological Re-assessment,” Creta Antica 10/I(2009) 105-145.

S. Todaro, “‘Riscavare lo scavato.’ Building Up the Stratigraphy of Prepalatial Phaistos with Legacy Data [CdA Monograph 1] (Rome 2019).

S. Todaro, “Residential Mobility and Ritual Stability in the Early Bronze Age Mesara: Re-Building ‘Houses’ at Phaistos,” in M. Relaki and J. Driessen (eds.), OIKOS: Archaeological Approaches to House Societies in Aegean Prehistory [Aegis19] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2020) 25-52.

S. Todaro and L. Girella, “Living through Destructions,” in J. Driessen (ed.), Destruction: Archaeological, Philological and Historical Perspectives (Louvain-la-Neuve 2013) 133-152.

G. Vavouranakis, Eikona kai archaiologia: E periptose tes proïstorikes architektonikes. Meros A’. E apeikonise kai e melete tes proïstorikes architektonikes sto Aigaio (Athens 2015).

E. Yiannouli, “PM kai MM apsidota kai petaloschema ktiria kai pithane tous semasia,” Pepragmena tou Z’ Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Rethymno 1995) A1: 125-147.

A. Zoïs, “Gibt es Vorläufer der minoischen Paläste auf Kreta? Ergebnisse neueren Untersuchungen, in D. Papenfuss and V. Strocka (eds.), Paläste und Hütte (Mainz 1982) 207-215.


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