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Lesson 5.15: Trade and External Contacts

Lesson 5 Bibliography: The Early Minoan Period: The Settlements

E. Alram-Stern, “Kreta und die Kykladen: Zu den Aussenbeziehungen Kretas während Frühminoisch IB und II,” in F. Blakolmer, C. Reinholdt, J. Weilhartner, and G. Nightingale (eds.), Österreichische Forschungen zur Ägäischen Bronzezeit 2009 (Vienna 2011) 31-40.

J. Aruz, "The Silver Cylinder Seal from Mochlos," Kadmos 23(1984) 186-187.

P. P. Betancourt, “The Impact of Cycladic Settlers on Early Minoan Crete,” Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 3(2003) 3-12.

K. Branigan, "Byblite Daggers in Cyprus and Crete," AJA 70(1966) 123-126.

K. Branigan, "Further Light on Prehistoric Relations between Crete and Byblos," AJA 71(1967) 117-121.

K. Branigan, "Minoan Foot Amulets and their Eastern Counterparts," SMEA 11(1970) 7-23.

K. Branigan, "Cycladic Figurines and their Derivatives in Crete," BSA 66(1971) 57-78.

K. Branigan, "Mochlos - An Early Aegean 'Gateway Community'?," in R. Laffineur and L. Basch (eds.), THALASSA. L'Égée préhistorique et la mer [Aegaeum 7] (Liège/Austin 1991) 97-105.

C. Broodbank and E. Kiriatzi, “The First ‘Minoans’ of Kythera Revisited: Technology, Demography, and Landscape in the Prepalatial Aegean,” AJA 111(2007) 241-274.

T. Carter, “Mochlos and Melos: A Special Relationship? Creating Identity and Status in Minoan Crete,” in L. P. Day, M. S. Mook, and J. D. Muhly (eds.), Crete Beyond the Palaces: Proceedings of the Crete 2000 Conference (Philadelphia 2004) 291-307.

H. W. Catling and J. A. MacGillivray, "An Early Cypriote III Vase from the Palace at Knossos," BSA 78(1983) 1-8.

J. F. Cherry, “Sorting Out Crete’s Prepalatial Off-Island Interactions,” in W. A. Parkinson and M. L. Galaty (eds.), Archaic State Interaction: The Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age (Santa Fe 2009) 107-140.

C. S. Colburn, “Exotica and the Early Minoan Elite: Eastern Imports in Prepalatial Crete,” AJA 112(2008) 203-224.

C. D’Annibale, “Obsidian in Transition. The Technological Reorganization of the Obsidian Industry from Petras Kephala (Siteia) between Final Neolithic IV and Early Minoan I,” in V. Isaakidou and P. Tomkins (eds.), Escaping the Labyrinth: The Cretan Neolithic in Context [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 8] (Oxford 2008) 191-200.

C. D’Annibale, “Obsidian Modes of Production and Consumption from a Diachronic Perspective as Seen from Petras ad the Siteia Bay Environs,” in M. Tsipopoulou (ed.), Petras, Siteia: 25 Years of Excavations and Studies [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 16] (Athens 2012) 105.

N. Dimopoulou-Rethemiotaki, D. E. Wilson, and P. M. Day, “The Earlier Prepalatial Settlement of Poros-Katsambas: Craft Production and Exchange at the Harbour Town of Knossos,” in P. M. Day and R. C. P. Doonan (eds.), Metallurgy in the Early Bronze Age Aegean [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 7] (Oxford 2007) 84-97.

C. Doumas, “Crete and the Cyclades in the Early Bronze Age: A View from the North,” in O. Krzsyzkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren [BSA Studies 18] (London 2010) 101-106.

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.

H. Klengel, "Near Eastern Trade and the Emergence of Interaction with Crete in the Third Millennium B.C.," SMEA 24(1984) 7-19.

B. Legarra Herrero, “New Kid on the Block: the Nature of the First Systemic Contacts between Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean around 2000 BC,” in T. C. Wilkinson, S. Sherratt, and J. Bennet (eds.), Interweaving Worlds: Systemic Interactions in Eurasia, 7th to 1st Millennia BC (Oxford 2011) 266-281.

Y. Papadatos, “Beyond Cultures and Ethnicity: A New Look at Material Culture Distribution and Inter-regional Interaction in the Early Bronze Age Southern Aegean,” in S. Antoniadou and A. Pace (eds.), Mediterranean Crossroads (Athens 2007) 419-451.

D. J. Pullen, “Connecting the Early Bronze I and II Periods in the 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) 447-460.

L. Rahmstorf, “The Aegean before and after c. 2200 BC between Europe and Asia: Trade as a Prime Mover,” 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) 149-180.

C. Renfrew, “Crete and the Cyclades before Rhadamanthus,” Kretika Chronika 18(1964) 107-141.

C. Renfrew, “Contrasting Trajectories: Crete and the Cyclades during the Early Bronze Age,” in O. Krzsyzkowska (ed.), Cretan Offerings: Studies in Honour of Peter Warren [BSA Studies 18] (London 2010) 285-292.

J. B. Rutter and C. W. Zerner, “Early Hellado-Minoan Contacts,” in R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds.), The Minoan Thalassocracy: Myth and Reality (Stockholm 1984) 75-83.

I. Sakellarakis, “The Cyclades and Crete,” in J. Thimme (ed.), Art and Culture of the Cyclades (Karlsruhe 1977) 145-153.

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.

S. Stucynski, “Cycladic Imports on Crete: A Brief Survey,” TUAS 7(1982) 50-59.

S. Swiny, “So Near and Yet So Far: Cyprus and Crete in the Early Bronze Age,” in Praktika tou Diethnous Archaiologikou Synedriou ‘E Kypros kai to Aigaio’ (Lefkosia 1997) 47-56.

P. Warren, “Knossos and the Greek Mainland in the Third Millennium B.C.,” AAA 5(1972) 392-398.

P. Warren, “Knossos and its Foreign Relations in the Early Bronze Age,” Pepragmena tou Δ' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou (Athens 1981) A2: 628-637. 

P. Warren, “Early Minoan - Early Cycladic Chronological Correlations,” in J. A. MacGillivray and R. L. N. Barber (eds.), The Prehistoric Cyclades (Edinburgh 1984) 55-62.

D. Wengrow, “The Voyages of Europa: Ritual and Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean circa 2300-1850 BC,” in W. A. Parkinson and M. L. Galaty (eds.), Archaic State Interaction: The Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age (Santa Fe 2009) 141-160.

P. Yule, “Early and Middle Minoan Foreign Relations: The Evidence from Seals,” SMEA 26(1987) 161-177.


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