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Lesson 5.7: Pottery

Lesson 5 Bibliography: The Early Minoan Period: The Settlements

S. Andreou, Pottery Groups of the Old Palace Period in Crete (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cincinnati 1978).

M. Benzi, “Il periodo prepalaziale a Festòs: una ricognizione preliminare,” in I cento anni dello scavo di Festòs [Atti dei Convegni Lincei 173] (Rome 2001) 121-155.

P. P. Betancourt, The History of Minoan Pottery (Princeton 1985) 16-63.

P. P. Betancourt, The Bronze Age Begins: The Ceramics Revolution of Early Minoan I and the New Forms of Wealth that Transformed Prehistoric Society (Philadelphia 2008).

P. P. Betancourt, T. K. Gaisser, E. Koss, R. F. Lyon, F. R. Matson, S. Montgomery, G. H. Myer, and C. P. Swann, Vasilike Ware. An Early Bronze Age Pottery Style in Crete [SIMA 56] (Göteborg 1979).

P. P. Betancourt (ed.), East Cretan White-on-Dark Ware: Studies on a Handmade Pottery of the Early to Middle Minoan Periods [University Museum Monograph 51] (Philadelphia 1984).

P. P. Betancourt, “Interpreting Ceramic Petrography: The Special Product Model, a New Model for Pottery Distribution in the Early Minoan Period,” in K. P. Foster and R. Laffineur (eds.), METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 24] (Liège/Austin 2003) 117-121.

P. P. Betancourt, “The EM I Pithoi from Aphrodite’s Kephali,” in O. Krzsyzkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren [BSA Studies 18] (London 2010) 1-10.

K. Branigan, Y. Papadatos, and D. Wynn, “Fingerprints on Early Minoan Pottery: A Pilot Study,” BSA 97(2002) 49-53.

T. M. Brogan, L. Kaiser, and E. Nodarou, “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” in I. Caloi and C. Langohr (eds.), Technology in Crisis. Technological Advances in Ceramic Production during Periods of Trouble [Aegis 16] (Louvain-la-Neuve 2018) 75-92.

G. Cadogan, P. Day, C. Macdonald, J. MacGillivray, N. Momigliano, T. Whitelaw, and D. Wilson, “Early Minoan and Middle Minoan Pottery Groups at Knossos,” BSA 88(1993) 21-28.

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.

G. M. Chandler, “Comparative Petrographic Analysis of Sherds from Five Minoan Sites in Western Crete,” in Y. Bassiakos, E. Aloupi, and Y. Facorellis (eds.), Archaeometry Issues in Greek Prehistory and Antiquity (Athens 2001) 379-395.

P. M. Day, L. Joyner, E. Kiriatzi, and M. Relaki, “Appendix 3: Petrographic Analysis of Some Final Neolithic – Early Minoan II Pottery from the Kavousi Area,” in D. C. Haggis, Kavousi I: The Archaeological Survey of the Kavousi Region (Philadelphia 2005) 177-195.

P. M. Day, E. Kiriatzi, A. Tsolakidou, and V. Kilikoglou, “Group Therapy in Crete: A Comparison between Analyses by NAA and Thin Section Petrography of Early Minoan Pottery,” JAS 26 (1999) 1025-1036.

P. M. Day, M. Relaki, and E. W. Faber, “Pottery Making and Social Reproduction in the Bronze Age Mesara,” in M. H. Wiener, J. L. Warner, J. Polonsky, and E. E. Hayes (eds.), Pottery and Society: The Impact of Recent Studies in Minoan Pottery [Gold Medal Colloquium in Honor of Philip P. Betancourt] (Boston 2006) 22-72.

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

P. Day and D. Wilson, “Ceramic Change and the Practice of Eating and Drinking in Early Bronze Age Crete,” in P. Halstead and J. C. Barrett (eds.), Food, Cuisine and Society in Prehistoric Greece [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 5] (Oxford 2004) 45-62.

P. M. Day, D. E. Wilson, and E. Kiriatzi, “Reassessing Specialization in Prepalatial Cretan Ceramic Production,” in R. Laffineur and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), TEXNH: Craftsmen, Craftswomen and Craftsmanship in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 16] (Liège/Austin 1997) 275- 289.

S. Ferrence, C. P. Swann, and P. P. Betancourt, “PIXE Analysis of White Pigments on Pottery from Five Bronze Age Minoan Archaeological Sites,” Aegean Archaeology 5(2001) 47-54.

E. Georgoulaki, “Kterismata-apomimeseis antikeimenon tes kathemerines zoes sten Proanaktorike kai Palaioanaktorike Krete,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H’ Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A1: 223-233.

E. Gerontakou, “’Lekanes’ se schema skaphes apo te Zakro,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H’ Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A1: 211-222.

D. C. Haggis, “The Typology of the Early Minoan I Chalice and the Cultural Implications of Form and Style in Early Bronze Age Ceramics,” in R. Laffineur and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), TEXNH: Craftsmen, Craftswomen and Craftsmanship in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 16] (Liège/Austin 1997) 291-299.

D. C. Haggis, “Coarse Ware Ceramic Distribution in the North Isthmus of Ierapetra in the Bronze Age,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H’ Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A1: 535-544.

D. C. Haggis and M. S. Mook, “The Kavousi Coarse Wares: A Bronze Age Chronology for Survey in the Mirabello Area, East Crete,” AJA 97 (1993) 265-293.

E. Kiriatzi, P. M. Day, and D. E. Wilson, “Diakinese tes kerameikes kai koinonikopolitike organose: e grapte keremeike tes PM II kai I periodou sten Anatolike Krete,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H’ Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A2: 99-115.

A. J. Koh and P. P. Betancourt, “Wine and Olive Oil from an Early Minoan Hilltop Fort,” Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 10(2010) 15-23.

D. Levi, “La varietà della primitiva ceramica cretese,” Studi in onore di Luisa Banti (Rome 1965) 228-238.

K. Manteli, The Transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age in Crete, with Special Reference to Pottery (Ph.D. dissertation, University of London 1993).

R. Mentesana, “The Final Neolithic – Early Minoan Transition in Phaistos, Crete: Continuity and Change in Pottery Manufacture,” in V. Kassianidou and M. Dikomitou-Eliadou (eds.), The Narnia Project: Integrating Approaches to Ancient Material Studies (Nicosia 2014) 20-31.

R. Mentesana, P. M. Day, V. Kilikoglou, and S. Todaro, “United in Our Differences: The Production and Consumption of Pottery at EM IB Phaistos,” JAS Reports 7(2016) 489-498.

R. Mentesana, V. Kilikoglou, S. Todaro, and P. M. Day, “Reconstructing Change in Firing Technology during the Final Neolithic - Early Bronze Age Transition in Phaistos, Crete. Just the Tip of the Iceberg?,” Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11:3(2019) 871-894. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-017-0572-8]

N. Momigliano, “Knossos 1902, 1905: The Prepalatial and Protopalatial Deposits from the Room of the Jars in the Royal Pottery Stores,” BSA 95(2000) 65-105.

N. Momigliano, “On the Early Minoan III and Middle Minoan IA Sequence at Knossos,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H’ Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A2: 335-348.

N. Momigliano, “Late Prepalatial (EM III – MM IA): South Front House Foundation Trench, Upper East Well and House C/RRS Fill Groups,” in N. Momigliano (ed.), Knossos Pottery Handbook: Neolithic and Bronze Age (Minoan) [BSA Studies 14] (London 2007) 79-103.

J. Moody and H. L. Robinson, “The Fabrics of Life in Sphakia,” in A. Karetsou (ed.), Pepragmena tou H’ Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Heraklion 2000) A2: 349-358.

C. E. Mortzos, “Partira: mia proïmos minoïke kerameike omas,” Epeteris Epistemonikon Erevnon 3(1972) 386-421.

?. Mytilinaiou, “Proanaktorike kerameike apo te thesi Psathi Kydonias,” Kretike Estia 6(1998) 195-236.

E. Nodarou, Pottery Production, Distribution and Consumption in Early Minoan West Crete: An Analytical Perpective (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Sheffield 2003).

E. Nodarou, Pottery Production, Distribution and Consumption in Early Minoan West Crete [BAR-IS 2210] (Oxford 2011).

E. Nodarou, “Pottery Fabrics and Recipes in the Final Neolithic and Early Minoan I Period: The Analytical Evidence from the Settlement and the Rock Shelter of Kephala Petras,” in M. Tsipopoulou (ed.), Petras, Siteia: 25 Years of Excavations and Studies [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 16] (Athens 2012) 81-88.

Y. Papadatos and E. Nodarou, “Pottery Technology(ies) in Prepalatial Crete: Evidence from Archaeological and Archaeometric Study,” E. Alram-Stern and B. Horejs (eds.), Pottery Technologies and Sociocultural Connections between the Aegean and Anatolia during the 3rd Millennium BC (Vienna 2018) 287-303.

C. Tenwolde, “Myrtos Revisited. The Role of Relative Functional Ceramic Typologies in Bronze Age Settlement Analysis,” OJA 11(1992) 1-24. 

S. Todaro, “EM I – MM IA Ceramic Groups at Phaistos: Towards the Definition of a Prepalatial Ceramic Sequence in South Central Crete,” Creta Antica 6(2005) 11-46.

S. Todaro, “Pottery Production in the Prepalatial Mesara: The Artisans’ Quarter to the West of the Palace at Phaistos,” Creta Antica 10/II(2009) 333-352.

S. Todaro, “Tradizione tecnologiche e identità culturale: la produzione ceramica nella Creta meridionale dell’Antica e Media Età del Bronzo,” in F. Carinci, N. Cucuzza, P. Militello, and O. Palio (eds.), KRETES MINOIDOS: Tradizione e identità minoica tra produzione artigianale, pratiche cerimoniali e memoria del passato. Studi offerti a Vincenzo La Rosa per il Suo 70o compleanno (Padova 2012) 71-86.

S. Todaro, “The EM III Phase in South Central Crete: New Data from Phaistos,” Aegean Archaeology 10(2009-10) [2013] 65-85.

S. Todaro, “Shaping Tools and Finished Products from a Long-term Pottery Production Area at Phaistos. A Combined Approach to the Study of Hand-forming Techniques in Early and Middle Minoan Crete,” Creta Antica 17(2016) 273-325.

S. Todaro, “Forming Techniques and Cultural Identity in Early and Middle Minoan Crete. Multi-layered Vessels from a Pottery Production Area at Phaistos,” Annuario 95(2017) 129-143.

S. Todaro, “The Final Neolithic – Early Minoan I Transition in South-central Crete: A Preliminary Account from Phaistos,” in S. Dietz, F. Mavridis, Z. Tankosic, and T. Takaoglu (eds.), Communities in Transition: The Circum-Aegean Area in the 5th and 4th Millennia BC (Oxford 2018) 428-442.

M. Tsipopoulou, “Defining the End of the Prepalatial Period at Petras,” in M. Tsipopoulou (ed.), Petras, Siteia: 25 Years of Excavations and Studies [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 16] (Athens 2012) 179-190.

A. Tsolakidou, V. Kilikoglou, E. Kiriatzi, and P. M. Day, “Investigating Petrological and Chemical Groupings of Early Minoan Cooking Vessels,” in V. Kilikoglou, A. Hein, and Y. Maniatis (eds.), Modern Trends in Scientific Studies on Ancient Ceramics [BAR-IS 1011] (Oxford 2002) 19-34.

A. Vergaki, Oi kernoi kai ta syntheta angeia ste minoïke Krete: Chrese, leitourgia kai proelefse (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Athens 2015).

P. M. Warren, “An Early Bronze Age Potter's Workshop in Crete,” Antiquity 43(1969) 224-227.

T. Whitelaw, “Feasts of Clay? Ceramics and Feasting at Early Minoan Myrtos: Fournou Korifi,” 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) 247-259.

T. Whitelaw, P. M. Day, E. Kiriatzi, V. Kilikoglou, and D. E. Wilson, “Ceramic Traditions at EM IIB Myrtos, Fournou Korifi,” in R. Laffineur and P. P. Betancourt (eds.), TEXNH: Craftsmen, Craftswomen and Craftsmanship in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 16] (Liège/Austin 1997) 265-274.

D. E. Wilson, “The Pottery and Architecture of the EM IIA West Court House at Knossos,” BSA 80(1985) 281-364.

D. E. Wilson, “An EM IIA Triple-bodied Jug from Knossos,” BSA 82(1987) 335-338.

D. E. Wilson, “Early Prepalatial (EM I – EM II): EM I Well, West Court House, North-East Magazines and South Front Groups,” in N. Momigliano (ed.), Knossos Pottery Handbook: Neolithic and Bronze Age (Minoan) [BSA Studies 14] (London 2007) 49-77.

D. E. Wilson, “Knossos 1955-1957: Early Prepalatial Deposits from Platon’s Tests in the Palace,” BSA 105(2010) 97-155.

D. E. Wilson and P. M. Day, “Ceramic Regionalism in Prepalatial Central Crete: The Mesara Imports from EM IB to EM IIA Knossos,” BSA 89(1994) 1-87.

D. E. Wilson and P. M. Day, “EM IIB Ware Groups at Knossos: The 1907-08 South Front Tests,” BSA 94(1999) 1-62.

D. E. Wilson and P. M. Day, “EM I Chronology and Social Practice: Pottery from the Early Palace Tests at Knossos,” BSA 95 (2000) 21-63.

D. E. Wilson, P. M. Day, and N. Dimopoulou-Rethemiotaki, “The Pottery from Early Minoan I-IIB Knossos and its Relations with the Harbour Site of Poros-Katsambas,” in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [BSA Studies 12] (London 2004) 67-74.

A. Zoïs, “Erevna peri tes minoïkes kerameikes,” Epeteris Epistemonikon Erevnon tou Panepistimiou Athenon (1967-68) 703-732. 


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