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Lesson 9.5: Excavations of Settlements and Surface Surveys

Lesson 9 Bibliography: Middle Helladic Greece

E. Alram-Stern, “Aigeira and the Beginning of the Middle Helladic Period in Achaia,” 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) 143-150.

X. Arapojanni, J. Rambach, and L. Godart, Kavkania: Die Ergebnisse der Ausgrabung von 1994 auf dem Hügel von Agrilitses (Mainz 2002).

E. Banou, “Middle Helladic Laconia: New Evidence,” SMEA 42(2000) 175-199.

A. Batziou-Efstathiou, “Kastraki, a New Bronze Age Settlement in Achaea Phthiotis,” 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) 291-300.

J. Bintliff, “Long-term Developments in Southern Mainland Settlement Systems from Early Helladic to Late Helladic Times as Seen through the Lens of Regional Survey,” in C. Wiersma and S. Voutsaki (eds.), Social Change in Aegean Prehistory (Oxford 2017) 159-167.

C. W. Blegen, Korakou. A Prehistoric Settlement near Corinth (Boston 1921).

C. W. Blegen, Zygouries. A Prehistoric Settlement in the Valley of Cleonae (Cambridge 1928).

W. Cavanagh, “Territory in Prehistoric Laconia,” in W. G. Cavanagh C. Gallou, and M. Georgiadis (eds.), Sparta and Laconia: From Prehistory to Pre-Modern [BSA Studies 16] (London 2009) 55-65.

M. B. Cosmopoulos, “Recherches sur la stratigraphie préhistorique d’Eleusis: Travaux 1995,” Echos du monde classique 40(1996) 1-26.

M. B. Cosmopoulos, “Eleusi nell’età del Bronzo Medio,” in R. De Marinis, A. M. Bietti Sestieri, R. Peroni, and C. Peretto (eds.), XIIIth International Congress of Prehistoric and Protostoric Sciences IV (Forli 1998) 195-200

M. B. Cosmopoulos, “The Middle Helladic Stratigraphy of Eleusis,” 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) 551-556.

M. B. Cosmopoulos, The Sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis. The Bronze Age [Archaeological Society of Athens Library nos. 295-296] (Athens 2014).

J. Crouwel, “Prehistoric Geraki: Work in Progress (2005),” in W. G. Cavanagh C. Gallou, and M. Georgiadis (eds.), Sparta and Laconia: From Prehistory to Pre-Modern [BSA Studies 16] (London 2009) 67-76.

J. Crouwel, “Middle Helladic Occupation at Geraki, Laconia,” 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) 77-86.

J. H. Crouwel, M. Prent, S. M. Thorne, G-J. van Wijngaarden, and C. Sueur, “Geraki, an Acropolis Site in Lakonia: Preliminary Report on the 1995 Season,” Pharos 3(1995) 41-65.

T. Cullen, L. E. Talalay, D. R. Keller, L. Karimali, and W. R. Farrand, The Prehistory of the Paximadi Peninsula, Euboea (Philadelphia 2013).

A. Dakouri-Hild, “Plotting Fragments: A Preliminary Assessment of the Middle Helladic Settlement in Boeotian Thebes,” in K. Branigan (ed.), Urbanism in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 4] (Sheffield 2001) 103-118.

J. L. Davis and S. R. Stocker, “Early Helladic and Middle Helladic Pylos: The Petropoulos Trenches and Pre-Mycenaean Remains on the Englianos Ridge,” 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) 101-106.

K. Demakopoulou and D. Konsola, “Leipsana protoelladikou, mesoelladikou kai ysteroelladikou oikismou ste Theba,” AD 30A(1975) 44-89.

K. Demakopoulou and N. Divari-Valakou, “The Middle Helladic Settlement on the Acropolis of Midea,” 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) 31-44.

S. Dietz, Asine II,1: Results of the Excavations East of the Acropolis 1970-1974. General Stratigraphical Analysis and Architectural Remains (Stockholm 1982).

S. Dietz, Asine II,2: Results of the Excavations East of the Acropolis 1970-1974. The Middle Helladic Cemetery, The Middle Helladic and Early Mycenaean Deposits (Stockholm 1980).

S. Dietz and I. Moschos (eds.), Chalkis Aitolias I: The Prehistoric Periods [Monographs of the Danish Institute at Athens 7] (Aarhus 2006).

S. Dietz and M. Stavropoulou-Gatsi, “Pagona and the Transition from Middle Helladic to Mycenaean in Northwestern Peloponnese,” 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) 121-128.

N. Divari-Valakou, “Evremata apo to mesoelladiko oikismo tou Argous. Anaskaphe oikopedou B. Tzapha,” in A. Pariente and G. Touchais (eds.), Argos et l'Argolide: Topographie et Urbanisme (Paris 1998) 85-101.

L. Dor, J. Jannoray, H. and M. van Effenterre, Kirrha. Étude de préhistoire phocidienne (Paris 1960).

W. Dörpfeld, Alt-Olympia: Untersuchungen und Ausgrabungen zur Geschichte des ältesten Heiligtums von Olympia und der älteren griechischen Kunst (Berlin 1935).

I. Efstathiou-Manolakou, “Archaeological Investigations in the Caves of Laconia,” in W. G. Cavanagh C. Gallou, and M. Georgiadis (eds.), Sparta and Laconia: From Prehistory to Pre-Modern [BSA Studies 16] (London 2009) 5-20.

G. Erath, “Neolithische und bronzezeitliche Keramik aus dem Becken von Pheneos in Arkadien,” in F. Blakolmer (ed.), Österreichische Forschungen zur Ägäischen Bronzezeit 1998 [Wiener Forschungen zur Archäologie 3] (Vienna 2000) 111-118.

M. Fotiadis, Economy, Ecology and Settlement among Subsistence Farmers in the Serres Basin, Northeastern Greece, 5000 - 1000 B.C. (Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University 1985). 

J. Forsén, “Prehistoric Asea Revisited,” Opuscula Atheniensia 21(1996) 41-72.

J. Forsén, “Aphidna in Attica Revisited,” 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) 223-234.

W. Gauss, “Neue Forschungen zur prähistorischen Akropolis von Athen,” in F. Blakolmer (ed.), Österreichische Forschungen zur Ägäischen Bronzezeit 1998 [Wiener Forschungen zur Archäologie 3] (Vienna 2000) 167-189.

A. Harding, G. Cadogan, and R. Howell, “Pavlopetri, an Underwater Bronze Age Town in Laconia,” BSA 64(1969) 112-142.

E. J. Holmberg, The Swedish Excavations at Asea in Arcadia (Lund/Leipzig 1944).

R. J. Howell, “The Middle Helladic Settlement: Stratigraphy and Architecture” and “The Middle Helladic Settlement: Pottery,” in W. A. McDonald and N. C. Wilkie (eds.), Excavations at Nichoria in Southwest Greece II: The Bronze Age Occupation (Minneapolis 1992) 15-204.

A. Ioannidou, “Ek Lianokladiou Phthiotidos,” AAA 6(1973) 395-401.

O. Kakavoyianni and K. Douni, “E mesoelladike epoche ste notioanatolike Attike,” 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) 199-210.

K. Kalogeropoulos, “Middle Helladic Human Activity in Eastern Attica: The Case of Brauron,” 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) 211-221.

E. Karantzali, “A Middle Helladic Apsidal House at Frantzi in the Spercheios Valley. Stratigraphic Evidence of the MH III – LH I Period,” AM 129-130(2014-2015) 37-75.

E. Konsolaki-Yiannopoulou, “E Magoula ston Galata tes Troizenias: Ena neo ME-YE kentro ston Saroniko,” in E. Konsolaki-Yiannopoulou (ed.), Argosaronikos: Praktika 1ou Diethnous Synedriou Istorias kai Archaiologias tou Argosaronikou A (Athens 2003) 159-228.

E. Konsolaki-Yiannopoulou, “The Middle Helladic Establishent at Megali Magoula, Galatas (Troezenia),” 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) 67-76.

H. Kyrieleis (ed.), Anfänge und Frühzeit des Heiligtums von Olympia: Die Ausgrabungen am Pelopion 1987-1996 [Olympische Forschungen 31] (Berlin 2006).

R. Laffineur, “Polyargyros Thorikos – Thorikos Rich in Silver: The Prehistoric Periods,” in P. I. Iosif (ed.), ‘All That Glitters . . .’: The Belgian Contribution to Greek Numismatics (Athens 2010) 26-40.

H. Lauter, Kiapha Thiti. Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen II,1: Die bronzezeitliche Architektur [Marburger Winckelmann-Programm 1995] (Marburg 1996).

M. Lindblom, “The Middle Helladic Period,” in M. Lindblom and B. Wells (eds.), Mastos in the Berbati Valley: An Intensive Archaeological Survey (Stockholm 2011) 77-96.

H. Lohmann, “Kiapha Thiti und der Synoikismos des Theseus,” in H. Lohmann and T. Mattern (eds.), Attika. Archäologie einer “zentralen” Kulturlandschaft (Wiesbaden 2010) 35-46.

Y. G. Lolos, “Sklavos: ena mesoelladiko orosemo ste notia akte tes Salaminos,” 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) 181-185.

S. Müller Celka, “L’occupation d’Éretrie (Eubée) à l’Helladique Moyen,” 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) 269-279.

G. Mylonas, Proïstorike Eleusis (Athens 1932).

G. Nordquist, “Floor Deposits on the Barbouna Slope at Asine,” Hydra 1(1985) 19-33.

G. Nordquist, “Asine, Terrace III: The Excavations of 1926. A Preliminary Report,” Hydra 3(1987) 5-14.

G. Nordquist, A Middle Helladic Village: Asine in the Argolid (Uppsala 1987).

G. Nordquist, “Asine - A Middle Helladic Society,” Hydra 3(1987) 15-25.

G. C. Nordquist, “New Middle Helladic Finds from Asine,” Hydra 8(1991) 31-34.

G. C. Nordquist, “Excavations in the Levendis Sector at Asine, 1989,” OpAth 19(1992) 59-68.

M. Oikonomakou, “Mesoelladikes theseis ste Lavreotike kai te notioanatolike Attike,” 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) 235-242.

M. A. Pantelidou, Ai Proïstorikai Athenai (Athens 1975).

A. Papadimitriou, “Oi anaskaphes sto Nosokomeio tou Argous,” 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) 45-56.

N. Papadimitriou, A. Philippa-Touchais, and G. Touchais, “Argos in the MBA and LBA: A Reassessment of the Evidence,” in A.-L. Schallin and I. Tournavitou (eds.), Mycenaeans Up to Date: The Archaeology of the North-eastern Peloponnese – Current Concepts and New Directions (Stockholm 2015) 161-184.

L. Papazoglou-Manioudaki, “The Middle Helladic and Late Helladic I Periods at Aigion in Achaia,” 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) 173-187.

L. Phialon, “L’habitat de Krisa (Chrysso – Haghios Georgios) à l’âge du Bronze: un réexamen de la topograhie du site et de la céramique,” BCH 142:2(2018) 403-536.

N. Polychronakou-Sgouritsa, Y. Papadatos, A. Balitsari, and E. Prevedorou, “Marathon in the Middle and Late Bronze Age: New Evidence from an Old Excavation. Preliminary Results from the Excavation of the University of Athens at Plasi,” in J. Driessen (ed.), RA-PI-NE-U: Studies on the Mycenaean World Offered to Robert Laffineur for His 70th Birthday [Aegis 10] (Louvain 2016) 305-315.

M. R. Popham and L. H. Sackett, Excavations at Lefkandi, Euboea, 1964-1966 (London 1968) 129-141.

J. Rambach, “Olympia. 2500 Jahre Vorgeschichte vor der Gründung des eisenzeitlichen griechischen Heiligtums,” in H. Kyrieleis (ed.), Olympia 1875–2000: 125 Jahre Deutsche Ausgrabungen (Mainz 2002) 177-212.

J. Rambach, “Olympia im ausgehenden 3. Jahrtausend v. Chr.: Bindeglied zwischen zentralem und östlichem Mittelmeerraum,” in E. Alram-Stern, Die ägäische Frühzeit. Forschungsbericht 1975-2002. II, 2: Die Frühbronzezeit in Griechenland mit Ausnahme von Kreta (Vienna 2004) 1199-1254.

J. Rambach, “Prosphates erevnes se mesoelladikes theseis tes dytikes Peloponnesou,” 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) 107-119.

K. A. Rhomaios, “Ek tou proïstorikou Thermou,” AD 1(1915) 225- .

K. A. Rhomaios, “Erevnai en Thermo,” AD 2(1916) 179- .

A.-M. Romanidou, “Enkatastase tes Meses Epoches tou Chalkou sten Kantza Pallenes (proen Ktema Kampa),” in N. Papadimitriou, J. C. Wright, S. Fachard, N. Polychronakou-Sgouritsa, and E. Andrikou (eds.), Athens and Attica in Prehistory: Proceedings of the International Conference, 27-31 May 2015 (Oxford 2020) 427-436.

C. Runnels, D. J. Pullen, and S. Langdon (eds.), The Finds from a Regional Survey of the Southern Argolid, Greece I: The Prehistoric and Early Iron Age Pottery and the Lithic Artifacts (Stanford 1975).

G. Säflund, Excavations at Berbati, 1936-1937 (Uppsala 1965).

A. Sampson, Kaloyerovryse. Enas oikismos tes Proïmes kai Meses Chalkokratias sta Phylla tes Euboias (Athens 1993).

A. Sampson, To Spelaio ton Limnon sta Kastria Kalavryton: Mia proïstorike these sten oreine Peloponneso [Etaireia Peloponnesiakon Spoudon 7] (Athens 1997).

Ph. Sarante, “Neoi oikismoi tes Meses Epoches tou Chalkou sten eparchia Nafpaktias,” 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) 259-267.

K. Sarri, Orchomenos in der mittleren Bronzezeit (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Heidelberg 1998).

K. Sarri, Orchomenos IV: Orchomenos in der mittleren Bronzezeit (Munich 2010).

K. Shelton, “Living and Dying in and around Middle Helladic Mycenae,” 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) 57-65.

D. Skorda, “E sostike anaskaphike drasterioteta ston proïstoriko oikismo tes Kirras kata to 2000,” Archaiologiko Ergo Thessalias kai Stereas Helladas I: Praktika epistemonikes synanteses, Volos 27.2 – 2.3.2003 (Volos 2006) 657-675.

S. R. Stocker, Deriziotis Aloni: A Small Bronze Age Site in Messenia (M.A. thesis, University of Cincinnati 1995).

S. R. Stocker, “Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Part V: Deriziotis Aloni: A Small Bronze Age Site in Messenia,” Hesperia 72(2003) 341-404.

Z. Tankosic and I. Mathioudaki, “Aghios Nikolaos Mylon: Some Speculations on the Bronze Age of Southern Euboea,” Archaiologiko Ergo Thessalias kai Stereas Helladas 2: Praktika epistemonikes synanteses, Volos 16.3 – 19.3.2006 (Volos 2009) 941-949.

Z. Tankosic and I. Mathioudaki, “The Finds from the Prehistoric Site of Ayios Nikolaos Mylon, Southern Euboea, Greece,” BSA 106(2011) 99-140.

W. D. Taylour, “Excavations at Ayios Stephanos,” BSA 67(1972) 205-270.

W. D. Taylour and R. Janko (eds.), Ayios Stephanos: Excavations at a Bronze Age and Medieval Settlement in Southern Laconia [BSA Supplementary Volume 44] (London 2008).

G. Touchais, “Argos à l'époque mésohelladique: Un habitat ou des habitats?,” in A. Pariente and G. Touchais (eds.), Argos et l'Argolide: Archéologie et l'urbanisme (Paris 1998) 71-84.

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A. Van de Moortel, “Middle Helladic Architectural Practices and the Formation of Elite Architecture at Mitrou, East Lokris, Early in the Late Helladic Period,” Archaiologiko Ergo Thessalias kai Stereas Elladas 5:1[2015] Thessalia (Volos 2020) 877-890.

A. Van de Moortel, E. Zachou, and J. B. Rutter, “Mitrou and Proskynas in Prehistoric East Lokris. Chronology, Interconnections and Society,” in M.-Ph. Papakonstantinou, Ch. Kritsas, and I. P. Touratsoglou (eds.), Pyrra: Meletes gia ten archaiologia sten Kentrike Ellada pros timen tes Phanourias Dakoronia A’: Proïstorikoi Chronoi (Athens 2018) 169-193.

C. Vatin, Médéon de Phocide (Paris 1969).

G. Venieri, “Nea stoicheia yia ten katoikese ste notia plevra tes Akropoles ton Athenon kata te mesoelladike periodo: evremata apo ten anaskaphe sto oikopedo Makrygianni,” 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) 187-198.

G. Venieri, “’Rethink Middle Helladic Athens’: anasynthese tes mesoelladikes katoikeses gyro apo ten Akropole,” in N. Papadimitriou, J. C. Wright, S. Fachard, N. Polychronakou-Sgouritsa, and E. Andrikou (eds.), Athens and Attica in Prehistory: Proceedings of the International Conference, 27-31 May 2015 (Oxford 2020) 417-426.

S. Voutsaki, “The Domestic Economy in Middle Helladic Asine,” 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) 765-779.

S. Voutsaki, E. Milka, S. Triantaphyllou, and C. Zerner, “Middle Helladic Lerna: Diet, Economy, Society,” in S. Voutsaki and S. M. Valamoti (eds.), Diet, Economy and Society in the Ancient Greek World: Towards a Better Integration of Archaeology and Science [Pharos Supplement 1] (Leuven 2013) 133-148.

S. Wide, “Aphidna in Nordattika,” AM 21(1896) 385-409.

J. C. Wright, “Comparative Settlement Patterns during the Bronze Age in the Northeastern Peloponnesos, Greece,” in S. E. Alcock and J. F. Cherry (eds.), Side-by-Side Survey: Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean World (Oxford 2004) 114-131.

E. Zavvou, “Archaeological Finds from the Area of Anthochori,” in W. G. Cavanagh C. Gallou, and M. Georgiadis (eds.), Sparta and Laconia: From Prehistory to Pre-Modern [BSA Studies 16] (London 2009) 29-42.

E. Zavvou, “Evremata tes mesoelladikes kai tes proïmes mykenaïkes epoches apo te Sparte kai te Lakonia,” 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) 87-99.

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