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Lesson 8.6: Pottery

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

L. Berger, “Die Keramik von Ägina Kolonna zur Zeit der grossen Korridorhäuser (FH II)," in G. Grabherr and B. Kainrath (eds.), Akten des 11. Österreichischen Archäologentages in Innsbruck [Ikarus 3] (Innsbruck 2008) 57-64. [= L. Berger, “Die Keramik von Ägina Kolonna zur Zeit der großen Korridorhäuser (FH II),” Forum Archaeologiae 39/VI/2006 (http://farch.net).]

L. Berger, “Frühhelladische Kreuzbandschalen aus Ägina. Vorläufer, Parallelen und mögliche Kontinuität,” Forum Archaeologiae 50/III/2009 (http://farch.net).

L. Berger, “The Late Early Helladic II Pottery of Aegina Kolonna,” in D. Katsonopoulou (ed.), Helike IV: Archaia Helike kai Aigialeia. Protoelladika: E notia kai kentrike Ellada; Ancient Helike and Aigialeia. Protohelladika: The Southern and Central Greek Mainland (Athens 2011) 121-130.

L. Berger, “Eastern Influences on the Early Helladic II Pottery of Aegina Kolonna,” in C. Doumas, G. Giannikouri, and O. Kouka (eds.), The Aegean Early Bronze Age: New Evidence (Athens, forthcoming).

C. Burke. P. M. Day, and D. J. Pullen, “The Contribution of Petrography to Understanding the Production and Consumption of Early Helladic Ceramics from Nemea, Mainland Greece,” in M. F. Ownby, I. C. Druc, and M. A. Masucci (eds.), Integrative Approaches in Ceramic Petrography (Salt Lake City 2017) 104-115.

X. Charalambidou, E. Kiriatzi, N. S. Müller, M. Georgakopoulou, S. Müller Celka, and T. Krapf, “Eretrian Ceramic Products through Time: Investigating the Early History of a Greek Metropolis,” JAS: Reports (2016) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.01.012]

M. Choleva, “The First Wheelmade Pottery at Lerna: Wheel-thrown or Wheel-fashioned?,” Hesperia 81(2012) 343-381.

M. Choleva, L’apparition et la diffusion du tour du potier dans le monde égéen (PhD dissertation, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne 2015).

M. Choleva, “Peristrephontas ton keramiko trocho sto Palamari Skyrou: Nees technologikes praktikes kai keramikes paradoseis sto Aigaio tes Proïmes Epoches tou Chalkou,” in L. Parlama, M. D. Theochari, C. Romanou, and S. Bonatsos (eds.), O Ochyromenos Proïstorikos Oikismos sto Palamari Skyrou: Diepistemonike synantese gia to ergo erevnas kai anadeixes (Athens 2015) 143-166.

M. Choleva, “Paragontas enan technite gia ton trocho sto proïstoriko Aigaio tes 3es xilietias p. Ch.: pros mia koinonike theorese tes technikes praxes,” Krisi 3(2018) 53-94.

M. Choleva, “Craft Behaviours during a Period of Transformation: The Introduction and Adoption of the Potter’s Wheel in Central Greece during the Early Bronze Age,” 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) 45-74.

M. Choleva, “L’histoire d’un savoir-faire. La transmission du tour de potier et l’émergence de nouvelles traditions technologiques dans le monde égéen préhistorique,” Annales de la Fondation Fyssen 33(2018) 192-234.

M. Choleva, “Travelling with the Potter’s Wheel in the Early Bronze Age Aegean,” BSA (2020) 1-46.  [doi:10.1017/S0068245420000064]

E. Christmann, Die Keramik der frühen Bronzezeit von der Pevkakia-Magula bei Volos, Thessalien (Ph.D. dissertation; University of Heidelberg 1990).

E. Christmann, Die deutschen Ausgrabungen auf der Pevkakia-Magula in Thessalien II: Die frühe Bronzezeit (Bonn 1996).

W. P. Donovan, A Study of Early Helladic Pottery with Painted Decoration (Ph.D. dissertation; University of Cincinnati 1961; University Microfilms International 61-5219).

M. J. Dorais and C. M. Shriner, “An Electron Microprobe Study of P645/T390: Evidence for an Early Helladic III Lerna-Aegina Connection,” Geoarchaeology 17.8(2002) 755-778. [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gea.10041/pdf]

W. Gauss and E. Kiriatzi, Pottery Production and Supply at Bronze Age Kolonna, Aegina: An Integrated Archaeological and Scientific Study of a Ceramic Landscape [Ägina-Kolonna Forschungen und Ergebnisse V] (Vienna 2011).

W. Gauss and M. Lindblom, “Pre-Mycenaean Pottery Shapes of the Central Aegean: A New Resource in Development,” in C. Wiersma and S. Voutsaki (eds.), Social Change in Aegean Prehistory (Oxford 2017) 1-15.

W. Gauss and R. Smetana, “Bericht zur Keramik und Stratigraphie der Frühbronzezeit III aus Ägina Kolonna,” in E. Alram-Stern, Die ägäische Frühzeit. Forschungsbericht 1975-2002. II, 2: Die Frühbronzezeit in Griechenland mit Ausnahme von Kreta (Vienna 2004) 1104-1113.

M. Gazis, “Teichos Dymaion, Achaea. An Acropolis-Harbour of the Ionian Sea Looking Westwards,” 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, Between the Adriatic Sea and the Aegean: The South-western Balkans during the Late 3rd and Early 2nd Millennium BC in the Light of the Excavations of Sovjan (Albania) and Sveta Nedela (Republic of Macedonia – FYROM) (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Heidelberg 2012).

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).

J. Hilditch, E. Kiriatzi, K. Psaraki, and V. Aravantinos, “Early Helladic II Pottery from Thebes: An Integrated Typological, Technological and Provenance Study,” in Y. Facorellis, N. Zacharias, and K. Polikreti (eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry [BAR-IS 1746] (Oxford 2008) 263-268.

I. Iliopoulos, V. Xanthopoulou, and P. Tsolis-Katagas, “A Petrographic Assessment of Houseware and Storage Pithoi in the Early Helladic Settlement of Helike, Achaea, Greece,” in D. Katsonopoulou (ed.), Helike IV: Archaia Helike kai Aigialeia. Protoelladika: E notia kai kentrike Ellada; Ancient Helike and Aigialeia. Protohelladika: The Southern and Central Greek Mainland (Athens 2011) 127-142.

P. Kalogerakou, “E emphanise tes kerameikes omadas ‘Lefkandi I’ stous Protoelladikous oikismous,” in A. Vlachopoulos and K. Birtacha (eds.), ARGONAUTIS: Timetikos tomos yia ton Kathegete Christo G. Douma apo tous mathetes tou sto Panepistimio Athenon (1980-2000) (Athens 2003) 191-210.

D. Katsonopoulou, I. Ilioupoulos, S. Katsarou, and V. Xanthopoulou, “Craftsmanship of the Storage Pithoi in the Early Helladic Settlement of Helike, Achaea,” in E. Photos-Jones, Y. Bassiakos, E. Filippaki, A. Hein, I. Karatasios, V. Kilikoglou, and E. Kouloumpi (eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry [BAR-IS 2780] (Oxford 2016) 13-20.

S. Katsarou-Tzeveleki, “Morphology and Distribution of Pottery at the Early Helladic Settlement of Helike,” in D. Katsonopoulou (ed.), Helike IV: Archaia Helike kai Aigialeia. Protoelladika: E notia kai kentrike Ellada; Ancient Helike and Aigialeia. Protohelladika: The Southern and Central Greek Mainland (Athens 2011) 89-126.

E. Kunze, Orchomenos III: Die Keramik der frühen Bronzezeit (Munich 1934).

J. Maran, “Überlegungen zur Abkunft der FH III-zeitlichen ritz- und einstichverzierten Keramik,” Hydra 2(1986) 1-28.

J. Maran, “Ein Nachtrag zur FH III-zeitlichen ritz- und einstichverzierten Keramik,” Hydra 3(1987) 3-4.

P. Michalopoulos, E kerameike tes Proïmes Epoches tou Chalkou sto Aigio: E periptose tou oikopedou Minasian A-B (PhD dissertation, University of Athens 2019).

K. Müller, Tiryns IV: Die Urfirniskeramik (Munich 1938).

S. Müller Celka, E. Kiriatzi, X. Charalambidou, and N. S. Müller, “Early Helladic II-III Pottery Groups from Eretria (Euboea),” in E. Alram-Stern and B. Horejs (eds.), Pottery Technologies and Sociocultural Connections between the Aegean and Anatolia during the 3rd Millennium BC (Vienna 2018) 197-213.

K. Ntouni, La céramique du Bronze Ancien II en Attique (PhD dissertation, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne 2015).

G. Nordquist, “A Note on EH III Fine Gray-burnished Pottery from Asine,” OpAth 18(1990) 241-243.

G. Nordquist, “The Pottery of the Early Helladic III and Middle Helladic Periods,” in C. Runnels, D. J. Pullen, and S. Langdon (eds.), Artifact and Assemblage: The Finds from a Regional Survey of the Southern Argolid, Greece I: The Prehistoric and Early Iron Age Pottery and the Lithic Artifacts (Stanford 1995) 43-51.

L. Parlama, “Troïka stoicheia sten kerameike tou Palamariou Skyrou,” ArchDelt 43A(1988) [forthcoming].

K. Psaraki, “A New EH II Pottery Assemblage from Thebes,” in E. Alram-Stern, Die ägäische Frühzeit. Forschungsbericht 1975-2002. II, 2: Die Frühbronzezeit in Griechenland mit Ausnahme von Kreta (Vienna 2004) 1259-1265.

K. Psaraki, “External Influences and Local Tradition in Pottery Repertoire of Boeotia at the End of EH II,” in S. Antoniadou and A. Pace (eds.), Mediterranean Crossroads (Athens 2007) 217-242.

K. Psaraki, “Protoelladike kerameike apo ten pole tes Thevas. Anaskaphe sto oikopedo epektases tou Archaiologikou Mouseiou Thevon,” in V. Aravantinos and E. Kountouri (eds.), 100 Chronia Archaiologikou Ergou ste Theva. Oi protergates ton erevnon kai oi synechistes tous (Athens 2014) 97-115.

J. Rambach, “Bemerkungen zur Zeitstellung der Apsidenhäuser in der Altis von Olympia,” in R. M. Boehmer and J. Maran (eds.), Lux Orientis: Archäologie zwischen Asien und Europa. Festschrift für Harald Hauptmann zum 65. Geburtstag (Rahden 2001) 327-333.

D. B. Roberson, Changing Times and Domestic Goods: An Investigation into the Organization of Pottery Production in Lerna III and IV (MA thesis, University of Arizona 2018).

M. Roumpou, K. Psaraki, V. Aravantinos, and C. Heron, “Early Bronze Age Cooking Vessels from Thebes: Organic Residue Analysis and Archaeological Implications,” in C. Mee and J. Renard (eds.), Cooking Up the Past: Food and Culinary Practices in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean (Oxford 2007) 158-173.

J. B. Rutter, Ceramic Change in the Aegean Early Bronze Age (Los Angeles 1979).

J. B. Rutter, “A Group of Distinctive Pattern-decorated Early Helladic III Pottery from Lerna and its Implications,” Hesperia 51(1982) 459-488.

J. B. Rutter, “Fine Gray-burnished Pottery of the Early Helladic III Period: the Ancestry of Gray Minyan,” Hesperia 52(1983) 327-355.

J. B. Rutter, “Some Comments on the Nature and Significance of the Ceramic Transition from Early Helladic III to Middle Helladic,” Hydra 2(1986) 29-58.

J. B. Rutter, “Early Helladic III Vasepainting, Ceramic Regionalism, and the Influence of Basketry,” in E. B. French and K. A. Wardle (eds.), Problems in Greek Prehistory (Bristol 1988) 73-89.

J. B. Rutter, “Early Helladic Pottery: Inferences about Exchange and Production from Style and Clay Composition,” 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) 19-37.

J. B. Rutter, Lerna. A Preclassical Site in the Argolid III: The Pottery of Lerna IV (Princeton 1995).

J. B. Rutter, “The Anatolian Roots of Early Helladic III Drinking Behavior,” in H. Erkanal, H. Hauptmann, V. Sahoglou, and R. Tuncel (eds.), The Aegean in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age (Ankara 2008) 461-481.

J. B. Rutter, “Migrant Drinking Assemblages in Aegean Bronze Age Settings,” in J. Maran and P. W. Stockhammer (eds.), Materiality and Social Practice: Transformative Capacities of Intercultural Encounters (Oxford 2012) 73-88.

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. Sahoglou, “The depas and Tankard Vessels,” in M. Lebeau (ed.), ARCANE: Interregional I: Ceramics (Brepols 2014) 289-311.

A. Schachner, “Untersuchungen zur chronologischen Stellung der grau-minyischen Keramik in Westanatolien unter Berücksichtigung der Schliemann-Sammlung im Berliner Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte,” Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica 26-27(1994-95) 90-115.

C. M. Shriner, Ceramic Technology at Lerna, Greece in the Third Millennium B.C.: Economic and Social Implications (Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University 1999).

C. Shriner and M. J. Dorais, “A Comparative Electron Microprobe Study of Lerna III and IV Ceramics and Local Clay-rich Sediments,” Archaeometry 41(1999) 25-49.

C. M. Shriner and H. H. Murray, Explaining Sudden Ceramic Change at Early Helladic Lerna: A Technological Paradigm,” in I. C. Druc (ed.), Archaeology and Clays [BAR-IS 942] (Oxford 2001) 1-16.

P. I. Sotirakopoulou, Akrotiri Theras: H Neolithike kai e Proïme Epoche tou Chalkou epi tei basei tes kerameikes [Bibliotheke tes en Athenais Etaireias 191] (Athens 1999).

L. C. Spencer, Pottery Technology and Socio-Economic Diversity on the Early Helladic III to Middle Helladic II Greek Mainland (Ph.D. dissertation, University of London 2007).

M. Theochari, L. Parlama, and E. Hatzipouliou, “Kerameike tes Proïmes Chalkokratias III apo to Palamari tes Skirou,” 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) 187-193.

T. C. Wilkinson, “Dressing the House, Dressing the Pots: Textile-inspired Decoration in the Late 3rd and 2nd Millennia BC East Mediterranean,” 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) 261-274.


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