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Lesson 9.6: The Site of Kolonna on Aegina

Lesson 9 Bibliography: Middle Helladic Greece

L. Basch, “The Aegina Pirate Ships of c. B.C. 1700,” Mariner's Mirror 72(1986) 415-437.

L. Basch, “Les navires des pirates d'Égine (vers 1700 av. J.-C.),” Neptunia. Association des Amis du Musée National de la Marine 162(1986) 18–28.

L. Berger, G. Forstenpointner, E. Kreuz, amd J. Weilhartner, “Purpur in bronzezeitlichen Ägina. Archäologische und archäozoologische Evidenz für die frühe Herstellung von Purpurstoff in Griechenland,” in L. Berger, F. Lang, C. Reinholdt, B. Tober, and J. Weilhartner (eds.), Gedenkschrift für Wolfgang Wohlmayr (Salzburg 2020) 43-64.

K. Christakis, “From Potter’s Mark to the Potter Who Marks,” in M. Mina, S. Triantaphyllou, and Y. Papadatos (eds.), An Archaeology of Prehistoric Bodies and Embodied Entities in the Eastern Mediterranean (Oxford 2016) 136-144.

M. J. Dorais, M. Lindblom, and C. Shriner, “Evidence for a Single Clay/Temper Source for the Manufacture of Middle and Late Helladic Aeginetan Pottery from Asine, Greece,” Geoarchaeology 19(2004) 657-684. 

F. Felten, “Nees anaskaphes sten Aigina-Kolona,” in E. Konsolaki-Yiannopoulou (ed.), Argosaronikos: Praktika 1ou Diethnous Synedriou Istorias kai Archaiologias tou Argosaronikou (Athens 2003) 17-28.

F. Felten, “Aegina-Kolonna: The History of a Greek Acropolis,” in F. Felten, W. Gauss, and R. Smetana (eds.), Middle Helladic Pottery and Synchronisms [Ägina-Kolonna Forschungen und Ergebnisse I] (Vienna 2007) 11-34.

F. Felten and S. Hiller, “Ausgrabungen in der vorgeschichtlichen Innenstadt von Ägina-Kolonna (Alt-Ägina),” JOAI 65(1996) 29-111. 

F. Felten, S. Hiller, C. Reinholdt, W. Gauss, and R. Smetana, “Ägina-Kolonna 2003: Vorbericht über die Grabungen des Instituts für Klassische Archäologie der Universität Salzburg,” JOAI 73(2004) 97-128.

J. L. Fitton, N. Meeks, and L. Joyner, “The Aigina Treasure: Catalogue and Technical Report,” in J. L. Fitton (ed.), The Aegina Treasure: Aegean Bronze Age Jewellery and a Mystery Revisited (London 2009) 17-31.

G. Forstenpointner, A. Galik, G. E. Weissengruber, S. Zohmann, U. Thanheiser, and W. Gauss, “Subsistence and More in Middle Bronze Age Aegina Kolonna: Patterns of Husbandry, Hunting and Agriculture,” 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) 733-742.

A. Galik, S. Zohmann, G. Forstenpointner, G. Weissengruber, and W. Gauss, “Subsistence and More in Middle Bronze Age Aegina Kolonna: Exploitation of Marine Resources,” 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) 743-751.

C. Gates, “Iconography at the Crossroads: The Aegina Treasure,” in R. Laffineur (ed.), Transition. Le monde égéen du Bronze Moyen au Bronze Récent [Aegaeum 3] (Liège 1989) 215-225.

W. Gauss, “Beobachtung zum Apsidenbau von Ägina-Kolonna,” in SYNERGIA: Festschrift für Friedrich Krinzinger (Vienna 2006) 221-228.

W. Gauss, “Minos auf Ägina – Beobachtungen zu den Beziehungen Äginas zu Kreta,” in E. Czerny, I. Hein, H. Hunger, D. Melman, and A. Schwab (eds.), Timelines: Studies in Honour of Manfred Bietak II (Leuven 2006) 437-448.

W. Gauss, “Aegina Kolonna. Pottery Classification and Research Database,” 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) 635-640.

W. Gauss, “Ägina Kolonna – Materialaufnahme, Dokumentation und Datenverwaltung,” in B. Horejs, R. Jung, and P. Pavuk (eds.), Analysing Pottery: Processing – Classification – Publication (Bratislava 2010) 307-321.

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 Kolonna on Aegina and Attica from the Early to the Late Bronze Age (ca. 2100 to ca. 1600 BC),” 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) 607-618.

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, G. Klebinder-Gauss, E. Kiriatzi, A. Pentedeka, and M. Georgakopoulou, “Aegina: An Important Centre of Production of Cooking Pottery from the Prehistoric to the Historic Era,” in M. Spataro and A. Villing (eds.), Ceramics, Cuisine and Culture: The Archaeology and Science of Cooking Pottery in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Oxford 2015) 65-74.

W. Gauss and G. Klebinder-Gauss, “Äginetische Keramik. Produktion und Verbreitung in prähistorischer und historischer Zeit,” in F. Lang and W. Wohlmayr (eds.), 50 Jahre Archäologie an der Paris Lodron-Universität Salzburg (Salzburg 2017) 23-34.

W. Gauss and A. Knodell, “Aeginetan Pottery in the Aegean World: Mapping Distributions around an Island Hub,” in S. W. E. Blum, T. Efe, T. L. Kienlin, and E. Pernicka (eds.), From Past to Present. Studies in Memory of Manfred O. Korfmann (Bonn 2020) 245-262.

W. Gauss, M. Lindblom, and R. Smetana, “The Middle Helladic Large Building Complex at Kolonna. A Preliminary View,” in W. Gauss, M. Lindblom, R. A. K. Smith, and J. C. Wright (eds.), Our Cups Are Full: Pottery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (Oxford 2011) 76-87.

W. Gauss and R. Smetana, “Untersuchung zur früh- und mittelhelladischen Keramik von Ägina Kolonna,” in B. Asamer, P. Höglinger, C. Reinholdt, R. Smetana, and W. Wohlmayr (eds.), TEMENOS: Festgabe für Florens Felten und Stefan Hiller (Vienna 2002) 11-19.

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.

W. Gauss and R. Smetana, “Aegina Kolonna, the Ceramic Sequence of the SCIEM 2000 Project,” in F. Felten, W. Gauss, and R. Smetana (eds.), Middle Helladic Pottery and Synchronisms [Ägina-Kolonna Forschungen und Ergebnisse I] (Vienna 2007) 57-80.

W. Gauss and R. Smetana, “Aegina Kolonna and the Cyclades,” in N. Brodie, J. Doole, G. Gavalas, and C. Renfrew (eds.), ORIZON. A Colloquium on the Prehistory of the Cyclades (Cambridge 2008) 325-338.

W. Gauss and R. Smetana, “Aegina Kolonna in the Middle Bronze Age,” 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) 165-174.

W. Gauss and J. Weilhartner, “Figurale Bildkunst im mittelhelladischen Ägina,” in L. Berger, F. Lang, C. Reinholdt, B. Tober, and J. Weilhartner (eds.), Gedenkschrift für Wolfgang Wohlmayr (Salzburg 2020) 129-148.

R. Higgins, “The Aegina Treasure Reconsidered,” BSA 52(1957) 42-57.

R. Higgins, The Aegina Treasure: An Archaeological Mystery (London 1979).

R. Higgins, “A Gold Diadem from Aegina,” JHS 107(1987) 182.

S. Hiller, “Fisch oder Schiff: Zu einem bemalten mittelbronzezeitlichen Gefässfragment aus Ägina,” Pantheon 30(1972) 439-446. 

S. Hiller, “Minoan and Minoanizing Pottery on Aegina,” 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) 197-199.

S. Hiller, “Ornaments from the Warrior Grave and the Aigina Treasure,” in J. L. Fitton (ed.), The Aegina Treasure: Aegean Bronze Age Jewellery and a Mystery Revisited (London 2009) 36-39.

F. Kanz, K. Grossschmidt, and J. Kiesslich, “Subsistence and More in Middle Bronze Age Aegina Kolonna: An Anthropology of Newborn Children,” 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) 479-487.

I. Kilian-Dirlmeier, "Reiche Gräber der mittelhelladischen Zeit," in R. Laffineur and W-D. Niemeier (eds.), POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège/Austin 1995) 49-53.

I. Kilian-Dirlmeier, Alt-Ägina IV, 3: Das mittelbronzezeitliche Schachtgrab von Ägina (Mainz 1997).

I. Kilian-Dirlmeier, “The MH Shaft-grave at Kolonna, Aegina,” in E. Konsolaki-Yiannopoulou (ed.), Argosaronikos: Praktika 1ou Diethnous Synedriou Istorias kai Archaiologias tou Argosaronikou (Athens 2003) 29-32.

G. Klebinder-Gauss and W. Gauss, “Opportunity in Scarcity: Environment and Economy on Aegina,” in A. Lichtenberger and C. von Rüden, Multiple Mediterranean Realities: Current Approaches to Spaces, Resources, and Connectivities (Paderborn 2015) 67-91.

R. Laffineur, “The ‘Aegina Treasure’ Revisited,” in E. Konsolaki-Yiannopoulou (ed.), Argosaronikos: Praktika 1ou Diethnous Synedriou Istorias kai Archaiologias tou Argosaronikou (Athens 2003) 41-45.

M. Lindblom, Marks and Makers: Appearance, Distribution and Function of Middle and Late Helladic Manufactuers' Marks on Aeginetan Pottery [SIMA 128] (Jonsered 2001).

M. Lindblom, “Manufacture and Markings. Aeginetan Pots and Prefiring Marks,” in E. Konsolaki-Yiannopoulou (ed.), Argosaronikos: Praktika 1ou Diethnous Synedriou Istorias kai Archaiologias tou Argosaronikou (Athens 2003) 33-39.

B. Lis, Late Bronze Age Cooking Pots from Mitrou and Their Change in the Light of Socio-Economic Transformations (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Warsaw 2012).

B. Lis, “Aeginetan Cooking Pottery in Central Greece and its Wider Perspective,” in A. Mazarakis-Ainian and A. Doulgeri-Intzesioglou (eds.), Archaiologiko Ergo Thessalias kai Stereas Elladas 3 (Volos 2012) 1203-1211.

J. Maran, “Emulation of Aeginetan Pottery in the Middle Bronze Age of Coastal Thessaly: Regional Context and Social Meaning,” in F. Felten, W. Gauss, and R. Smetana (eds.), Middle Helladic Pottery and Synchronisms [Ägina-Kolonna Forschungen und Ergebnisse I] (Vienna 2007) 167-182.

G. Muskett, “Kolonna in the Middle Bronze Age: The Role of the Sea,” in M. Georgiadis and G. M. Muskett (eds.), The Seas of Antiquity (Liverpool 2002) 6-17.

W-D. Niemeier, “Aegina - First Aegean ‘State’ Outside of Crete?,” in R. Laffineur and W-D. Niemeier (eds.), POLITEIA: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 12] (Liège/Austin 1995) 73-80.

J. C. Overbeck, “The Middle Bronze Age Sequences of Kea and Aegina,” in F. Felten, W. Gauss, and R. Smetana (eds.), Middle Helladic Pottery and Synchronisms [Ägina-Kolonna Forschungen und Ergebnisse I] (Vienna 2007) 339-346.

K. Pruckner, “Vollkommen und bichrom bemalte Äginetische Keramik des späten MH bis frühen SH aus Ägina-Kolonna,” Forum Archaeologiae 50/III/2009 (http://farch.net).

K. Pruckner, “Vollständig und bichrom bemalte äginetische Keramik des späten MH bis frühen SH aus Ägina-Kolonna,” in F. Blakolmer, C. Reinholdt, J. Weilhartner, and G. Nightingale (eds.), Österreichische Forschungen zur Ägäischen Bronzezeit 2009 (Vienna 2011) 241-252.

C. Reinholdt, “Ein minoischer Steinhammer in Aegina,” Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 22(1992) 57-62.

C. Reinholdt, “Entwicklung und Typologie mittelbronzezeitlicher Lanzenspitzen mit Schäftungsschuh in Griechenland,” Mitteilungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte 14(1993) 43-52.

K. Sarri, “Aeginetan Matt-Painted Pottery in Boeotia,” in F. Felten, W. Gauss, and R. Smetana (eds.), Middle Helladic Pottery and Synchronisms [Ägina-Kolonna Forschungen und Ergebnisse I] (Vienna 2007) 151-165.

E. Semantone-Bournia, “O ‘Thesauros tes Aiginas’. Neo phos sto mysterio tes lathraias exagoges tou,” in E. Konsolaki-Yiannopoulou (ed.), Argosaronikos: Praktika 1ou Diethnous Synedriou Istorias kai Archaiologias tou Argosaronikou (Athens 2003) 47-69.

N. Sgouritsa, “Lazarides on Aegina: Another Prehistoric Site,” 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) 175-180.

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