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Lesson 5.2: General

Lesson 5 Bibliography: The Early Minoan Period: The Settlements

K. Branigan, The Foundations of Palatial Crete (London 1970).

K. Branigan, Pre-Palatial: The Foundations of Palatial Crete: A Survey of Crete in the Early Bronze Age (Amsterdam 1988).

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.

K. Branigan, “Foundations in the Dust? Craft and Technology in EM II Crete,” Cretan Studies 7(2002) 33-44.

K. Branigan, “The Late Prepalatial Resurrected,” in O. Krzsyzkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren [BSA Studies 18] (London 2010) 25-32.

T. M. Brogan, “’Minding the Gap’: Reexamining the Early Cycladic III ‘Gap’ from the Perspective of Crete: A Regional Approach to Relative Chronology, Networks, and Complexity in the Late Prepalatial Period,” AJA 117(2013) 555-567.

G. Cadogan, “Why Was Crete Different,” in G. Cadogan (ed.), The End of the Early Bronze Age in the Aegean (Leiden 1986) 153-171.

T. Carter, Through a Glass Darkly: Obsidian and Society in the Southern Aegean Early Bronze Age (Ph.D. dissertation, University of London 1999).

D. Catapoti, “Rise to the Occasion: An Insight into the ‘Politics of Drinking’ at the Prepalatial Settlement of Myrtos-Phournou Koryfi, South Crete,” in E. Kapsomenos, M. Andreadaki-Vlazaki, and M. Andrianakis (eds.), Pepragmena tou I’ Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Chania 2011) A1: 101-114.

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

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/Austin 1995) I: 23-32.

P. M. Day, M. Relaki, and S. Todaro, “Living from Pots? Ceramic Perspectives on the Economies of Prepalatial Crete,” in D. J. Pullen (ed.), Political Economies of the Aegean Bronze Age (Oxford 2010) 205-230.

P. M. Day and D. E. Wilson, “Landscapes of Memory, Craft and Power in Prepalatial and Protopalatial Knossos,” in Y. Hamilakis (ed.), Labyrinth Revisited: Rethinking Minoan Archaeology (Oxford 2002) 143-166.

J. Driessen, “A Matrilocal House Society in Pre- and Protopalatial Crete?,” 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) 358-383.

S. Hood, “Autochthons or Settlers? Evidence for Immigration at the Beginning of the Early Bronze Age in Crete,” Pepragmena tou ST' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou A':1 (Chania 1990) 367-375.

S. Hood, “Settlers in Crete c.3000 B.C.,” Cretan Studies 2(1990) 151-158.

E. Karantzali, Le Bronze Ancien dans les Cyclades et en Crète [BAR-IS 631] (Oxford 1996).

E. Karantzali, “The Transition of EB I to EB II at Cyclades and Crete: Historical and Cultural Repercussions for Aegean Communities,” in N. Brodie, J. Doole, G. Gavalas, and C. Renfrew (eds.), ORIZON. A Colloquium on the Prehistory of the Cyclades (Cambridge 2008) 241-260.

B. S. Kunkel, From Prestige Goods to the Possession of a Collective Past: A Dual-Processualist Approach to Social Organization in the Mirabello Region of Crete from the Final Neolithic to the End of the Protopalatial Period (Ph.D. dissertation, Temple University 2017).

B. Legarra Herrero, “The Minoan Fallacy: Cultural Diversity and Mortuary Behavior on Crete at the Beginning of the Bronze Age,” OJA 28(2009) 29-57.

S. Manning, “The Emergence of Divergence: Development and Decline on Bronze Age Crete and the Cyclades,” in C. Mathers and S. Stoddart (eds.), Development and Decline in the Mediterranean Bronze Age (Sheffield 1994) 221-270. 

J. W. Myers, E. E. Myers, and G. Cadogan, The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete (Berkeley 1992).

G. Nakou, The End of the Early Bronze Age in the Aegean: Material Culture and History (Ph.D. dissertation, University of London 2000).

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

K. Nowicki, “Final Neolithic Refugees or Early Bronze Age Newcomers? The Problem of Defensible Sites in Crete in the Late Fourth Millennium B.C.,” 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) 575-581.

E. Peltenburg, “From Nucleation to Dispersal. Late Third Millennium B.C. Settlement Pattern Transformations in the Near East and Aegean,” in O. Rouault and M. Wäfler (eds.), La Djéziré et l'Euphrate syriens de la protohistoire à la fin du IIe millénaire av. J.-C.: Tendances dans l'interprétation historique des données nouvelles [Subartu VII] (Brepols 2000) 183-206.

M. Relaki, Social Arenas in Minoan Crete: A Regional History of the Mesara from the Final Neolithic to the End of the Protopalatial Period (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Sheffield 2003).

M. Relaki, “Constructing a Region: The Contested Landscapes of Prepalatial Mesara,” in J. C. Barrett and P. Halstead (eds.), The Emergence of Civilisation Revisited [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 6] (Oxford 2004) 170-188.

M. Relaki, “The Social Arenas of Tradition. Investigating Collective and Individual Social Strategies in the Prepalatial and Protopalatial Mesara,” 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) 290-324.

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.

I. Schoep, “Bridging the Divide between the ‘Prepalatial’ and the ‘Protopalatial’ Periods?,” 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) 403-428.

I. Schoep and P. Tomkins, “Back to the Beginning for the Early and Middle Bronze Age on Crete,” 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) 1-31.

A. J. Shapland, Over the Horizon: Human-Animal Relations in Bronze Age Crete (Ph.D. dissertation, University College London 2009).

S. Todaro, “Il periodo Antico Minoico e l’origine del fenomeno palaziale a Creta: nuovi dati da Festòs,” in G. Graziadio, R. Guglielmino, V. Lenuzza, and S. Vitale (eds.), FILIKE SYNAVLIA. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology for Mario Benzi [BAR-IS 2460] (Oxford 2013) 1-14.

S. Todaro, The Phaistos Hills Before the Palace: A Contextual Reappraisal (Milan 2013).

S. Todaro, “From Scatters of Pottery to Communities? Issues of Function, Temporality and Mobility in the Construction of the Settled Landscape of the Prepalatial Mesara (South-central Crete): A View from Phaistos,” Thiasos 8(2019) 3-21.

P. Tomkins, “Inspecting the Foundations: The Early Minoan Project in Review,” in M. Relaki and Y. Papadatos (eds.), From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Society [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 12] (Oxford 2018) 36-67.

P. Tomkins, “About Time. Rehabilitating Chronology in the Interpretation of Settlement in East Crete between the Neolithic and Early Minoan I,” Creta Antica 19(2018) 45-92.

A. Vasilakis, “Myrtos Fournou Korifi and Trypiti Adami Korfali: Similarities and Differences in Two Prepalatial Settlements in Southern Crete,” in O. Krzsyzkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren [BSA Studies 18] (London 2010) 353-358.

G. Walberg, “Establishing the Level and Complexity of Early Cretan Society,” Opuscula Atheniensia 20(1994) 241-243.

P. Warren, “The Origins of the Minoans,” BICS 16(1969) 156-157. 

P. Warren, “Crete, 3000-1400 B.C.: Immigration and the Archaeological Evidence,” in R. A. Crossland and A. Birchall (eds.), Bronze Age Migrations in the Aegean (London 1973) 41-47.

P. Warren, “’Back to the Beginning’ – An Overview,” 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) 429-  .

L. V. Watrous, “Review of Aegean Prehistory III: Crete from Earliest Prehistory through the Protopalatial Period,” AJA 98(1993) 695-753.

L. V. Watrous, “Crete from Earliest Prehistory through the Protopalatial Period” and “Addendum: 1994-1999,” in T. Cullen (ed.), Aegean Prehistory: A Review (Boston 2001) 157-215 and 216-223.

T. Whitelaw, “The Urbanisation of Prehistoric Crete: Settlement Perspectives on Minoan State Formation,” 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) 114-176.

T. Whitelaw, “The Divergence of Civilisation: Fournou Korifi and Pyrgos,” in C. F. Macdonald, E. Hatzaki, and S. Andreou (eds.), The Great Islands: Studies of Crete and Cyprus Presented to Gerald Cadogan (Athens 2015) 41-48.

D. Wilson, “Early Prepalatial Crete,” in C. W. Shelmerdine (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age (Cambridge 2008) 77-104.

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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