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Lesson 9.7: Architecture and Settlement Organization

Lesson 9 Bibliography: Middle Helladic Greece

T. Alusik, “Middle Helladic and Middle Minoan Defensive Architecture: A Comparison,” in A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. Wright (eds.), MESOHELLADIKA: The Greek Mainland in the Middle Bronze Age [BCH Supplement 52] (Paris 2010) 885-889.

W. Gauss, “Fortification Systems of the Aegean Bronze Age. The Early and Middle Bronze Age,” in A. Ballmer, M. Fernandez-Götz, and D. P. Mielke (eds.), Understanding Ancient Fortifications. Between Regionality and Connectivity (Oxford 2018) 43-61.

W. Gauss, “The Settlement of Kolonna on Aegina between ca. 2500 and 1700 BC (advanced Early Bronze Age to Middle Bronze Age,” in H. Meller, S. Friederich, M. Küssner, H. Stäuble, and R. Risch (eds.), Siedlungsarchäologie des Endneolithikums und der frühen Bronzezeit/Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Settlement Archaeology (Halle 2019) 1107-1136.

W. Gauss, “Considerations on Aegean Bronze Age Fortifications,” in S. Hansen and R. Krause (eds.), Bronze Age Fortresses in Europe (Bonn 2019) 53-80.

L. A. Hitchcock and A. P. Chapin, “Lacuna in Laconia: Why Were There No Middle Helladic Palaces”,” in A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. Wright (eds.), MESOHELLADIKA: The Greek Mainland in the Middle Bronze Age [BCH Supplement 52] (Paris 2010) 817-822.

S. Hubert, “Late Middle Helladic and Early Late Helladic Fortifications: Some Considerations on the Role of Burials and Grave Monuments at City Gates,” in R. Frederiksen, S. Müth, P. I. Schneider, and M. Schnelle (eds.), Focus on Fortifications: New Research on Fortifications in the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 18] (Oxford/Philadelphia 2016) 66-81.

G. Kalogeroudis, Befestigungsanlagen im griechischen Raum in der Bronzezeit und ihre Entwicklung von neolithischer bis in archaische Zeit [BAR-IS 1878] (Oxford 2008).

R. Krause, “Fortresses and Fortifications. On Fortified Hilltop Settlements of the Bronze Age,” in S. Hansen and R. Krause (eds.), Bronze Age Fortresses in Europe (Bonn 2019) 1-16.

J. Maran, “Zur mittelbronzezeitlichen Bebauungsschema auf der Pevkakia-Magula bei Volos,” in J-C. Decourt, B. Helly, and K. Gallis (eds.), La Thessalie. Quinze années de recherches archéologiques, 1975-1990: Bilans et perspectives (Athens 1994) 205-210.

A. Philippa-Touchais, “Settlement Planning and Social Organization in Middle Helladic Greece,” in A. Philippa-Touchais, G. Touchais, S. Voutsaki, and J. Wright (eds.), MESOHELLADIKA: The Greek Mainland in the Middle Bronze Age [BCH Supplement 52] (Paris 2010) 781-801.

A. Philippa-Touchais, “The Middle Bronze Age Fortifications on the Aspis Hill at Argos,” R. Frederiksen, S. Müth, P. I. Schneider, and M. Schnelle (eds.), Focus on Fortifications: New Research on Fortifications in the Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 18] (Oxford/Philadelphia 2016) 645-661.

O. Polychronopoulou, “Existe-t-il des villes au Bronze Ancien et au Bronze Moyen en Grèce continentale?,” in P. Darcque and R. Treuil (eds.), L'habitat égéen préhistorique [BCH Supplement 19] (Paris 1990) 473-484.

A. Van de Moortel, “Middle Helladic Architectural Practices and the Formation of Elite Architecture at Mitrou, East Lokris, Early in the Late Helladic Period,” in Archaiologiko Ergo Thessalias kai Stereas Elladas 5(2020) I: 877-890.

K. Werner, The Megaron during the Aegean and Anatolian Bronze Age [SIMA 108] (Jonsered 1993).

C. W. Wiersma, Building the Bronze Age: Architectural and Social Change on the Greek Mainland during Early Helladic III, Middle Helladic, and Late Helladic I (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Groningen 2013). 

C. W. Wiersma, Building the Bronze Age: Architectural and Social Change on the Greek Mainland during Early Helladic III, Middle Helladic, and Late Helladic I (Oxford 2014). 

C. Wiersma, “Domestic Architecture: A Means to Analyse Social Change on the Bronze Age Greek Mainland,” in C. Wiersma and S. Voutsaki (eds.), Social Change in Aegean Prehistory (Oxford 2017) 69-97.

R. Worsham, Before Mycenae: Middle Helladic Domestic Architecture and the Foundations of Mycenaean Culture (MA thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2010).

R. Worsham, Discontinuous Houses, Settlement Structures and Social Organization in Late Early Helladic and Middle Helladic Greece (Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2015).


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