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Lesson 8.10: Chronology, External Contacts, and Trade

The "Lefkandi I" and Tiryns Cultures of the Early Helladic IIB and Early Helladic III Periods

M. E. Alberti, “Aegean Trade Systems: Overview and Observations on the Middle Bronze Age,” in M. E. Alberti and S. Sabatini (eds.), Exchange Networks and Local Transformations: Interaction and Local Change in Europe and the Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age (Oxford 2013) 22-43.

E. Ballan, La diffusione della ceramica decorata in area adriatica e balcanica occidentale nell’ultimo quarto dell III millennio a.C. (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Venice 2014).

E. Ballan, “The Decorated Pottery of the Adriatic and Western Balkan Areas in the Last Quarter of the 3rd Millennium BC: Continuity, Discontinuity and Suggestion of Dating,” in M. Fotiadis, R. Laffineur, Y. Lolos, and A. Vlachopoulos (eds.), ΕΣΠΕΡΟΣ/HESPEROS: The Aegean Seen from the West [Aegaeum 41] (Leuven/Liège 2017) 235-240.

F. Blakolmer, “Relations between Prehistoric Malta and the Aegean: Myth and Reality,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] 653-662.

A. Cazzella, “L’Egeo e il Mediterraneo centrale fra III e II millennio: una reconsiderazione,” in V. La Rosa, D. Palermo, and L. Vagnetti (eds.), EPI PONTON PLAZOMENOI: Simposio italiano di Studi Egei dedicato a Luigi Bernabò Brea e Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli (Rome 1999) 397-404.

A. Cazzella, A. Pace, and G. Recchia, “Cultural Contacts and Mobility between the South Central Mediterranean and the Aegean during the Second Half of the 3rd Millennium BC,” in S. Antoniadou and A. Pace (eds.), Mediterranean Crossroads (Athens 2007) 243-260.

A. Cazzella and G. Recchia, “The Early Bronze Age in the Maltese Islands,” in D. Tanasi and N. C. Vella (eds.), The Late Prehistory of Malta: Essays on Borg in-Nadur and Other Sites (Oxford 2015) 139-159.

E. Christmann, “Die Magula von Pevkakia (Volos) und die Frühbronzezeit in Thessalien. Chronologie und externe Kontakte,” in La Thessalie. Quinze années de recherche, 1975-1990 [Acts of the International Archaeological Colloquium, Lyon 1990] A (Lyon 1994) 201-204.

P. Della Casa. “The Cetina Group and the Transition from Copper to Bronze Age in Dalmatia,” Antiquity 69(1995) 565-576.

V. E. Dimitriou, “I rapporti delle Cicladi con la Grecia continentale durante il terzo millennio a.C.,” Origini 28(2006) 177-205.

W. Gauss and R. Smetana, “Early and Middle Bronze Age Stratigraphy and Pottery from Aegina Kolonna,” in M. Bietak and E. Czerny (eds.), The Synchronisation of Civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C. III (Vienna 2007) 451-472.

M. Gazis, “Teichos Dymaion, Achaea. An Acropolis-Harbour of the Ionian Sea Looking Westward,” in M. Fotiadis, R. Laffineur, Y. Lolos, and A. Vlachopoulos (eds.), ΕΣΠΕΡΟΣ/HESPEROS: The Aegean Seen from the West [Aegaeum 41] (Leuven/Liège 2017) 463-472.

M. Gori, Along the Rivers and Through the Mountains: A Revised Chrono-cultural Framework for the South-western Balkans during the Late 3rd and Early 2nd Millennium BCE (Bonn 2015).

M. Gori, “Kata gen kai kata thalassan. Cetina Communities on the Move across the Central Mediterranean and the Balkans in the 3rd Millennium BC,” in J. Maran, R. Bajenaru, S.-C. Ailincai, A.-D. Popescu, and S. Hansen (eds.), Objects, Ideas and Travelers: Contacts between the Balkans, the Aegean and Western Anatolia during the Bronze and Early Iron Age: Volume to the Memory of Alexandru Vulpe (Bonn 2020) 65-84.

S. Hood, “Northern Penetration of Greece at the End of the Early Helladic Period and Contemporary Balkan Chronology,” in R. A. Crossland and A. Birchall (eds.), Bronze Age Migrations in the Aegean (Park Ridge 1974) 59-71.

T. Kaiser and S. Forenbaher, “Adriatic Sailors and Stone Knappers: Palagruza in the 3rd Millennium BC,” Antiquity 73(1999) 313-324.

O. Kouka, “Third Millennium BC Aegean Chronology: Old and New Data from the Perspective of the Third Millennium AD,” in S. W. Manning and M. J. Bruce (eds.), Tree-Rings, Kings, and Old World Archaeology and Environment: Papers Presented in Honor of Peter Ian Kuniholm (Oxford 2009) 133-148.

J. A. MacGillivray, “On the Relative Chronology of Early Cycladic IIIA and Early Helladic III,” AJA 87(1983) 81-83.

S. Manning, The Absolute Chronology of the Aegean Early Bronze Age: Archaeology, Radiocarbon and History (Sheffield 1995).

S. Manning, “Comments on Climate, Intra-regional Variations, Chronology, the 2200 B.C. Horizon of Change in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, and Socio-political Change on Crete,” in F. Höflmayer (ed.), The Late Third Millennium in the Ancient Near East: Chronology, C14, and Climate Change [Oriental Institute Seminars 11] (Chicago 2017) 451-490.

J. Maran, “Kulturbeziehungen zwischen dem nordwestlichen Balkan und Südgriechenland am Übergang vom späten Äneolithikum zur frühen Bronzezeit (Reinecke A1),” Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 17(1987) 77-85.

J. Maran, Kulturwandel auf dem griechischen Festland und den Kykladen im späten 3. Jt. v. Chr.: Studien zu den kulturellen Verhältnissen in Südosteuropa und dem zentralen sowie östlichen Mittelmeerraum in der späten Kupfer- und frühen Bronzezeit (Habilitation; Universität Bonn 1995).

J. Maran, “Neue Ansätze für die Beurteilung der Balkanisch-Ägäischen Beziehungen im 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr.,” in P. Roman (ed.), The Thracian World at the Crossroads of Civilizations I (Bucharest 1997) 171-192 

J. Maran, Kulturwandel auf dem griechischen Festland und den Kykladen im späten 3. Jt. v. Chr.: Studien zu den kulturellen Verhältnissen in Südosteuropa und dem zentralen sowie östlichen Mittelmeerraum in der späten Kupfer- und frühen Bronzezeit (Bonn 1998).

J. Maran, “Seaborne Contacts between the Aegean, the Balkans and the Central Mediterranean in the 3rd Millennium B.C.: The Unfolding of the Mediterranean World,” in I. Galanaki, H. Tomas, Y. Galanakis, and R. Laffineur (eds.), Between the Aegean and Baltic Seas: Prehistory across Borders [Aegaeum 27] (Liège/Austin 2007) 3-21.

M. Mellink, “The Early Bronze Age in West Anatolia: Aegean and Asiatic Correlations,” in G. Cadogan (ed.), The End of the Early Bronze Age in the Aegean (Leiden 1986) 139-152.

G. Nakou, “Absent Presences: Metal Vessels in the Aegean at the End of the Third Millennium,” 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) 224-244.

F. Nicolis, “Long Distance Cultural Links between Northern Italy, the Ionian Islands and the Peloponnese in the Last Centuries of the 3rd Millennium B.C.,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 527-538.

A. J. Papadopoulos and S. Kontorli-Papadopoulou, “Some Thoughts on the Problem of Relations between the Aegean and Western Greece in the Early Bronze Age,” in H. Erkanal, H. Hauptmann, V. Sahoglou, and R. Tuncel (eds.), The Aegean in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age (Ankara 2008) 411-426.

R. Peroni, “'Kulturwandel' e formazioni economico-sociali. Osservazioni a proposito della monografia di Joseph Maran,” SMEA 40:2(1998) 155-165.

D. J. Pullen, “Asine, Berbati, and the Chronology of Early Bronze Age Greece,” AJA 91(1987) 533-544.

D. J. Pullen, “Reciprocity and Exchange Relationships: Exploring the Dynamics of Bronze Age Social Structures through Feasting and Hospitality,” in C. Wiersma and S. Voutsaki (eds.), Social Change in Aegean Prehistory (Oxford 2017) 49-68.

L. Rahmstorf, “In Search of the Earliest Balance Weights, Scales and Weighing Systems from the East Mediterranean, the Near and Middle East,” in M. E. Alberti, E. Ascalone, and L. Peyronel (eds.), Weights in Context: Bronze Age Weighing Systems of the Eastern Mediterranean: Chronology, Typology, Material, and Archaeological Contexts [Studi e Materiali 13] (Rome 2006) 9-45.

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.

J. Rambach, “Olympia im ausgehenden 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr.: Bindeglied zwischen zentralem und östlichem Mittelmeerraum,” in E. Alram-Stern (ed.), Die ägäische Frühzeit II, 2: Die Frühbronzezeit in Griechenland mit Ausnahme von Kreta (Vienna 2004) 1199-1254.

G. Recchia and A. Cazzella, “Permeable Boundaries in the Late 3rd Millennium BC Central Mediterranean: Contacts and Mobility between the Balkans, Greece, Southern Italy and Malta,” in M. Fotiadis, R. Laffineur, Y. Lolos, and A. Vlachopoulos (eds.), ΕΣΠΕΡΟΣ/HESPEROS: The Aegean Seen from the West [Aegaeum 41] (Leuven/Liège 2017) 93-104.

J. B. Rutter, “The Temporal Slicing and Dicing of Minyan Culture: A Proposal for a Tripartite Division of a Lengthier Greek Middle Bronze Age and the Issue of Nomadism at its Beginning,” in C. Wiersma and S. Voutsaki (eds.), Social Change in Aegean Prehistory (Oxford 2017) 16-31.

V. Sahoglu, “Interregional Contacts around the Aegean during the Early Bronze Age: New Evidence from the Izmir Region,” Anadolu/Anatolia 27[2004] (2005) 97-120. 

V. Sahoglu, “The Anatolian Trade Network and the Izmir Region during the Early Bronze Age,” OJA 24(2005) 339-361.

V. Sahoglou, “New Evidence for the Relations between the Izmir Region, the Cyclades and the Greek Mainland during the Third Millennium B.C.,” in H. Erkanal, H. Hauptmann, V. Sahoglou, and R. Tuncel (eds.), The Aegean in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age (Ankara 2008) 483-502.

V. Sahoglu, “The Early Bronze Age Anatolian Trade Network and its Role on the Transformation of the Anatolian and Aegean Communities,” in V. Sahoglu, M. Sevketoglu, and Y. H. Erbil (eds.), Connecting Cultures: Trade and Interconnections in the Ancient Near East from the Beginning until the End of the Roman Period (Ankara 2019) 115-131.

A. Sampson, “Manika and Mainland Greece in Early Helladic III: Ceramic Evidence for Relations with the Aegean and Anatolia,” in C. and P. Zerner and J. Winder (eds.), Wace and Blegen: Pottery as Evidence for Trade in the Aegean Bronze Age 1939-1989 (Amsterdam 1993) 159-164.

H. Tomas, “Early Bronze Age Sailors of the Eastern Adriatic: The Cetina Culture and Its Impact,” in M. Fotiadis, R. Laffineur, Y. Lolos, and A. Vlachopoulos (eds.), ΕΣΠΕΡΟΣ/HESPEROS: The Aegean Seen from the West [Aegaeum 41] (Leuven/Liège 2017) 215-222.

H. Tomas, “Cetina Valley – An Ancient Pathway of Communication,” in J. Maran, R. Bajenaru, S.-C. Ailincai, A.-D. Popescu, and S. Hansen (eds.), Objects, Ideas and Travelers: Contacts between the Balkans, the Aegean and Western Anatolia during the Bronze and Early Iron Age: Volume to the Memory of Alexandru Vulpe (Bonn 2020) 53-64.


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