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Lesson 6.14: Trade and External Contacts

Lesson 6 Bibliography: The Early Minoan Period: The Tombs

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, Marks of Distinction. Seals and Cultural Exchange between the Aegean and the Orient (ca. 2600-1360 B.C.) [CMS Beiheft 7] (Mainz 2008).

P. P. Betancourt, “Egyptian Connections at Hagios Charalambos,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA: Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 449-453.

P. P. Betancourt and J. D. Muhly, “The Early Trade Routes for Metals in Bronze Age Crete,” in P. Pavúk, V. Klonzta-Jaklová, and A. Harding (eds.), EUDAIMON: Studies in Honour of Professor Jan Bouzek (Prague 2019) 17-28.

T. Carter, “Reverberation of the International Spirit: Thoughts upon ‘Cycladica’ in the Mesara,” in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 1] (Sheffield 1998) 59-77.

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

C. Doumas, “Proïstorikoi Kykladites sten Krete,” AAA 9(1976) 69-80.

C. Doumas, “Proïstorikoi Kykladites sten Krete,” AAA 12(1979) 105-109.

S. Ferrence, “Hippopotamus Ivory in EM-MM Lasithi and the Implications for Eastern Mediterranean Trade: New Evidence from Hagios Charalambos,” in P. P. Betancourt, M. C. Nelson, and H. Williams (eds.), Krinoi kai Limenes: Studies in Honor of Joseph and Maria Shaw [Prehistory Monographs 22] (Philadelphia 2007) 167-175.

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.

J. A. MacGillivray, P. M. Day, and R. E. Jones, "Dark-faced Incised Pyxides and Lids from Knossos: Problems of Date and Origin," in E. B. French and K. A. Wardle (eds.), Problems in Greek Prehistory (Bristol 1988) 91-94.

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.

J. Sakellarakis, “Ta kykladika stoicheia ton Archanon,” AAA 10(1977) 93-115.

E. Shank, “New Evidence for Anatolian Relations with Crete in EM I-IIA,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 103-106.

L. V. Watrous, “Cretan International Relations during the Middle Minoan IA Period and the Chronology of Seager’s Finds from the Mochlos Tombs,” R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 107-115.

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


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