Lesson 5 Bibliography: The Early Minoan Period: The Settlements
H. Blitzer, “Olive Cultivation and Oil Production in Minoan Crete,” in M.-C. Amouretti and J.-P. Brun (eds.), La production du vin et de l'huile en Mediterranée [BCH Supplement 26] (Paris 1993) 163-175.
J. F. Cherry, “Introductory Reflection on Economics and Scale in Prehistoric Crete,” in A. Chaniotis (ed.), From Minoan Farmers to Roman Traders: Sidelights on the Economy of Ancient Crete (Stuttgart 1999) 17-24.
M. A. Fillios, Measuring Complexity in Early Bronze Age Greece: The Pig as a Proxy Indicator of Socio-economic Structures [BAR-IS 1722] (Oxford 2007).
J. Greig and P. M. Warren, “Early Bronze Age Agriculture in Western Crete,” Antiquity 48(1974) 130-132.
D. C. Haggis, “Staple Finance, Peak Sanctuaries, and Economic Complexity in Late Prepalatial Crete,” in A. Chaniotis (ed.), From Minoan Farmers to Roman Traders: Sidelights on the Economy of Ancient Crete (Stuttgart 1999) 53-86.
V. Isaakidou, “Ploughing with Cows: Knossos and the Secondary Products Revolution,” in D. Serjeantson and D. Field (eds.), Animals in the Neolithic of Britain and Europe (Oxford 2006) 95-112.
R. Jung and B. Weninger, “Archaeological and Environmental Impact of the 4.2 ka cal BP Event in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean,” in H. Meller, H. W. Arz, R. Jung, and R. Risch (eds.), 2200 BC – Ein Klimasturz als Ursache für den Zerfall der Alten Welt? [2200 BC – A Climatic Breakdown as a Cause for the Collapse of the Old World? (Halle 2015) 205-234.
A. Koh and P. Betancourt, “Wine and Olive Oil from an Early Minoan Hilltop Fort,” Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 10(2010) 15-23.
A. Livarda and G. Kotzamani, “The Archaeobotany of Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete: Synthesis and Prospects,” BSA 108(2013) 1-29.
S. Manning, "Cultural Change in the Aegean c. 2200 B.C.," in H. Nüzhet Dalfes, G. Kukla, and H. Weiss (eds.), Third Millennium B.C. Climate Change and Old World Collapse (Berlin 1997) 149-171.
P. Militello, “Wool Production in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Aegean,” in G. Touchais, R. Laffineur, and F. Rougemont (eds.), PHYSIS: Natural Environment and Human Interaction in the Prehistoric Aegean [Aegaeum 14] (Liége 2014) 317-324.
C. Runnels and J. Hansen, "The Olive in the Prehistoric Aegean: the Evidence for Domestication in the Early Bronze Age," OJA 5(1986) 299-308.
K. Sbonias, "Social Development, Management of Production, and Symbolic Representation in Prepalatial Crete," in A. Chaniotis (ed.), From Minoan Farmers to Roman Traders: Sidelights on the Economy of Ancient Crete (Stuttgart 1999) 25-52.
K. Sbonias, “Diakoinotikes scheseis kai symbolike ekphrase sten proanaktorike Krete,” in I. Kilian-Dirlmeier and M. Egg (eds.), Eliten in der Bronzezeit: Ergebnisse zweier Colloquien in Mainz und Athen (Mainz 1999) 1-18.
T. Theodoropoulou, “Neolithic and Minoan Marine Exploitation at Petras: Diachronic Trends and Cultural Shifts,” in M. Tsipopoulou (ed.), Petras, Siteia: 25 Years of Excavations and Studies [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 16] (Athens 2012) 89-104.
S. Todaro, “Craft Production and Social Practices at Prepalatial Phaistos: the Background to the First ‘Palace’,” in I. Schoep, P. Tomkins, and J. Driessen (eds.), Back to the Beginning: Reassessing Social and Political Complexity on Crete during the Early and Middle Bronze Age (Oxford 2012) 195-235.
R. Veropoulidou and A. Vasilakis, “Exploring Mollusc Food Consumption Practices: The Shell Assemblage from the Early Bronze Age Trypiti, Southern Crete,” in A. Matalas and N. Xirotiris (eds.), Fish and Seafood: Anthropological Peerspectives from the Past and the Present (Heraklion 2013) 33-54.
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