Lesson 6 Bibliography:
The Early Minoan Period: The Tombs
[Updated November 2007]
* Colloquia, Symposia, and Festschriften
* General
* Excavation and Surface Survey Reports
* Burial Customs and Funerary Ritual
* Pottery
* Jewelry
Colloquia, Symposia, and Festschriften
K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (Sheffield 1998).
K. P. Foster and R. Laffineur (eds.), METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 24] (Liège/Austin 2003).
A. Karetsou (ed.), Krete-Aigyptos. Politismikoi desmoi trion chilieton. Meletes (Athens 2000).
A.
Karetsou, M. Andreadaki-Vlasaki, and N. Papadakis (eds.),
Krete-Aigyptos. Politismikoi desmoi trion chiletion.
Katalogos (Athens 2000).
R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA: Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005).
C. Renfrew et al., ORIZON.
A Colloquium on the Prehistory of the Cyclades (Cambridge,
forthcoming).
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).
General
P. P. Betancourt, “The Impact of Cycladic Settlers on Early Minoan Crete,” Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 3(2003) 3-12.
K. Branigan, The Tombs of Mesara (London 1970).
K. Branigan, Dancing with Death: Life and Death in Southern Crete c. 3000-2000 B.C. (Amsterdam 1993).
E. Karantzali, Le Bronze Ancien dans les Cyclades et en Crìte [BAR International Series 631] (Oxford 1996).
J.
W. Myers, E. E. Myers, and G. Cadogan, The Aerial Atlas of Ancient
Crete (Berkeley 1992).
M. Relaki, Social Arenas in
Minoan Crete: A Regional History of the Mesara from the Final Neolithic
to the End of the Protopalatial Period (Ph.D.
dissertation, University of Sheffield 2003).
L. V. Watrous, "Review of Aegean Prehistory III: Crete from Earliest Prehistory through the Protopalatial Period," AJA 98(1993) 695-753.
T. M. Whitelaw, "The Settlement of Fournou Korifi Myrtos and Aspects of Early Minoan Social Organization," in O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon (eds.), Minoan Society (Bristol 1983) 323-345.
Excavation and Surface Survey Reports
S. Alexiou, "Protominoikoi taphoi para to Kanli Kastelli, Herakliou," Kretika Chronika 5(1951) 275-295.
S.
Alexiou, "New Light on Minoan Dating: Early Minoan Tombs at
Lebean," Illustrated London News 237(6 August 1960)
225-227.
S.
Alexiou, "Oi protominoïkoi taphoi tes Lebenas kai e
exelixis ton proanaktorikon ruthmon," Kretika Chronika 15-16
:1 (1961-62) 188-191.
S. Alexiou and P. Warren, The Early Minoan Tombs of Lebena, Southern Crete [SIMA 30] (Sävedalen 2004).
L.
Banti, "La grande tomba a tholos di Haghia Triadha,"
Annuario 13-14(1930-31) 155-251.
P. P. Betancourt, “The Cemetery at Hagia Photia, Crete,” in C.
Renfrew et al., ORIZON. A Colloquium
on the Prehistory of the Cyclades (Cambridge, forthcoming).
D. Blackman and K. Branigan, "An Unusual Tholos Tomb at Kaminospilio, S. Crete," Kretika Chronika 25:1(1973) 199-206.
D. J. Blackman and K. Branigan, "An Archaeological Survey on the South Coast of Crete, between Ayiofarango and Chrisostomos," BSA 70(1975) 17-36.
D.J. Blackman and K. Branigan, "An Archaeological Survey of the Lower Catchment of the Ayiofarango Valley," BSA 72(1977) 13-84.
D. Blackman and K. Branigan, "The Excavation of an Early Minoan Tholos Tomb at Ayia Kyriaki, Ayiofarango, Southern Crete," BSA 77(1982) 1-57.
C. Davaras, "Protominoikon nekrotapheion Agias Photias Siteias," AAA 4(1971) 392-397.
C. Davaras and P. P. Betancourt, The Hagia Photia Cemetery I (Philadelphia 2004).
P. Demargne, Fouilles exécutées à Mallia. Exploration des nécropoles (1921-1933) [Études crétoises 7] (Paris 1945).
A. J. Evans, The Sepulchral Deposit of Haghios Onouphrios near Phaistos in its Relation to Primitive Aegean Culture: Supplement to Cretan Pictographs (London 1895) 105-136.
D. C. Haggis, "The Early Minoan Burial Cave at Ayios Antonios and Some Problems in Early Bronze Age Chronology," SMEA 31(1993) 7-34.
D. Levi, "La tomba a tholos di Kamilari presso a Festos," Annuario 23-24(1961-62) 7-148.
C. Maggidis, Burial Building 19 at Archanes: A Study of Prepalatial and Early Protopalatial Funerary Architecture and Ritual (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania 1994).
S. Marinatos, "Duo proïmoi minoïkoi taphoi ek Vorou Mesaras," AD 13(1930-1931) 137-170.
D. Panagiotopoulos, Das Tholosgrab E von Phourni bei Archanes: Studien zu einem frühkretischen Grabfund und seinem kulturellen Kontext [BAR International Series 1014] (Oxford 2002).
Y. Papadatos, Tholos Tomb Gamma: A Prepalatial Tholos Tomb at Phourni, Archanes (Philadelphia 2005).
R. Paribeni, "Ricerche nel sepolcreto di Haghia Triada presso Phaestos," Monumenti Antichi 14 (1904) 677-755.
O. Pelon, Guide de Malia: Le palais et la nécropole de Chrysolakkos (Paris 1992).
J. Sakellarakis, "The Minoan Cemeteries at Archanes," Archaeology 20(1967) 276-281.
J. and E. Sakellarakis, Archanes (Athens 1991) 66-135.
Y. Sakellarakis and E. Sapouna-Sakellaraki, Archanes. Minoan Crete in a New Light (Athens 1997).
R. B. Seager, Explorations in the Island of Mochlos (Boston / New York 1912).
J. S. Soles, "Mochlos: A New Look at Old Excavations," Expedition 20 (1978) 4-15.
J. S. Soles, "The Early Gournia Town," AJA 83(1979) 149-167.
A. Vasilakis, "Proïstorikes theseis ste Mone Odegetria - Kalous Limenes," Kretike Estia [4th series] 3(1989-90) 11-79.
S. Xanthoudides, "Megas protominoïkos taphos Pyrgou," AD 4(1918) 136-170.
S. Xanthoudides, "Protominoïkoi taphoi Mesaras: Marathokephalo," AD 4(1918) Parartema 15-23.
S. Xanthoudides, The Vaulted Tombs of the Mesara (London 1924).
Funerary Architecture
P. Belli, "Nuovi documenti per lo studio delle tombe circolari cretesi," SMEA 25(1984) 91-141.
P. Belli, “On Measuring Tholoi in the Aegean Bronze Age,” in K. P. Foster and R. Laffineur (eds.), METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 24] (Liège/Austin 2003) 403-409.
K. Branigan, "The Corbelling Controversy - Another Contribution," Cretan Studies 4(1994) 65-69.
W.
G. Cavanagh and R. R. Laxton, "The Structural Mechanics of the
Mycenaean Tholos Tomb," BSA 76(1981) 109-140.
M. Cultraro, “Il tipo di tomba ipogeica a grotticella artificiale in ambito egeo; Alcume osservazioni,” in L’Ipogeismo nel Mediterraneo: Origini, Sviluppo, Quadri Culturali (Sassari 2000) II: 473-499.
L. Goodison, “From Tholos Tomb to Throne Room: Some
Considerations of Dawn Light and Directionality in Minoan Buildings,”
in G. Cadogan, E. Hatzaki, and A. Vasilakis (eds.), Knossos: Palace, City, State [British School at Athens Studies 12]
(London 2004) 339-350.
M. Goodwin, The Archaeoastronomy of Early Minoan Crete (M.A. thesis, Bryn Mawr College 1998).
S. Hood, "Tholos Tombs of the Aegean," Antiquity 34 (1960) 166-176.
C. Maggidis, "Burial Building 19, Phourni (Archanes): Variety and Originality in MM I Burial Architecture," in Pepragmena tou Z' Diethnous Archaiologikou Synedriou A2 (Rethymno 1995) 562-575.
O. Pelon, Tholoi, tumuli et cercles funéraires (Paris 1976).
O. Pelon, "Les toimbes circulaires dans l'Égée de l'âge du Bronze: état des recherches sur les tombes à tholos," Topoi 8 (1998) 95-158.
F. Petit, "Les tombes circulaires de la Messara: problìmes d'interpretation des piìces annexes," in R. Laffineur (ed.), Thanatos: Les coutumes funéraires en Égée à l'Age du Bronze [Aegaeum 1] (Liège 1987) 35-42.
G. de Pierpont, "Reflexions sur la destination des edifices de Chrysolakkos," in R. Laffineur (ed.), Thanatos: Les coutumes funéraires en Égée à l'Age du Bronze [Aegaeum 1] (Liège 1987) 79-93.
J. Soles, The Gournia House Tombs (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania 1973).
J.
S. Soles, The Prepalatial Cemeteries at Mochlos and Gournia and
the House Tombs of Bronze Age Crete [Hesperia Supplement 24]
(Princeton 1992).
G. Vavouranakis, “Towards an Elemental Approach to Early
Minoan Funerary Architecture: The Enduring Bedrock,” in G. Muskett, A.
Kolisida, and M. Georgiadis (eds.), Symposium
on Mediterranean Archaeology 2001 [BAR International Series 1040]
39-46.
P. M. Warren, "The Mitata of Nidha and Early Minoan Tholos Tombs," AAA 6 (1973) 449-456.
Burial Customs and Funerary Ritual
K. Branigan, "The Tombs of Mesara: New Tombs and New Evidence," BICS 22(1975) 200-203.
K. Branigan, "Early Minoan Society: the Evidence of the Mesara Tholoi Revised," in Aux Origines de l'Hellénisme: La Crète et la Grèce. Hommages à Henri Van Effenterre (Paris 1984) 29-37.
K. Branigan, "Body-counts in the Mesara Tholoi," in EILAPINI: Tomos timitikos yia ton Kathegete Nikolao Platona (Herakleion 1987) 299-309.
K. Branigan, "Ritual Interference with Human Bones in the Mesara Tholoi," in R. Laffineur (ed.), Thanatos: Les coutumes funéraires en Égée à l'Age du Bronze [Aegaeum 1] (Liège 1987) 43-50.
K. Branigan, "Funerary Ritual and Social Cohesion in Early Bronze Age Crete," Journal of Mediterranean Studies 1(1991) 183-192.
K. Branigan, "The Nearness of You: Proximity and Distance in Early Minoan Funerary Behaviour," in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 1] (Sheffield 1998) 13-26.
T. Carter, "Reverberation of the International Spirit: Thoughts upon "Cycladica" in the Mesara," in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 1] (Sheffield 1998) 59-77.
M. Cultraro, “La brocchetta dei vivi per la sete dei morti: riconsiderazione delle camerette a sud della grande tholos di Haghia Triada,” in Proceedings of the 8th International Cretological Congress (Heraklion, 9-14 September 1996) A1 [Heraklion 2000] 309-326.
E. Gerontakou, “Dyo Mesminoïkoi apothetes sto nekrotapheio tou Platanou,” 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) 303-330.
L. Goodison, “From Tholos Tomb to Throne Room: Perceptions of the Sun in Minoan Ritual,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 77-88.
Y. Hamilakis, "Eating the Dead: Mortuary Feasting and the Politics of Memory in the Aegean Bronze Age Societies," in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 1] (Sheffield 1998) 115-132.
C. Maggidis, "From Polis to Necropolis: Social Ranking from Architectural and Mortuary Evidence in the Minoan Cemetery at Phourni, Archanes," in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (Sheffield 1998) 87-102.
C. Maggidis, "Minoan Burial Customs and Social Ranking at Archanes," in Pepragmena tou H' Diethnous Archaiologikou Synedriou A (Heraklion, forthcoming).
J. Murphy, "Ideology, Rites and Rituals: A View of Prepalatial Minoan Tholoi," in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (Sheffield 1998) 27-40.
J. Soles, "Social Ranking in Prepalatial Cemeteries," in E. B. French and K. A. Wardle (eds.), Problems in Greek Prehistory (Bristol 1988) 49-61.
Chronology
D. C. Haggis, "The Early Minoan Burial Cave at Ayios Antonios and Some Problems in Early Bronze Age Chronology," SMEA 31(1993) 7-34.
Art: General
L. Marangou (ed.), Minoan and Greek Civilization from the Mitsotakis Collection (Athens 1992).
M. Vandervondelen, "Singes accroupis. Étude de quelques statuettes de la période prépalatiale crétoise," Studia Varia Bruxellensia ad Orbem Graeco-Latinum Pertinentia 3(1994) 175-183.
Figurines
D. Lefèvre-Novaro, “Un nouvel examen des modèles réduits trouvés dans la grande tombe de Kamilari,” in R. Laffineur and R. Hägg, POTNIA. Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 22] (Liège/Austin 2001) 89-98.
C.
Marangou, EIDOLIA: Figurines et miniatures du Néolithique
récent et du Bronze ancien en Grìce (Oxford 1992).
E. C. Pieler, “Kykladische und ‘kykladisierende’ Idole auf
Kreta und im helladischen Raum in der Frühbronzezeit – eine
Klassifizierung,” SMEA 46(2004)
79-119.
E. Sapouna-Sakellarakis, "To eidolio tou Sampa kai ta amorpha lithina eidolia tes Proïmes Epoches tou Chalkou sten Krete," AE (1983) 44-74.
Pottery
S. Alexiou, "Oi protominoïkoi taphoi tes Lebenas kai e exelixis ton proanaktorikon ruthmon," Kretika Chronika 15-16 :1 (1961-62) 188-191.
K. Branigan, Y. Papadatos, and D. Wynn, “Fingerprints on Early Minoan Pottery: A Pilot Study,” BSA 97(2002) 49-53.
P. M. Day, D. E. Wilson, and E. Kiriatzi, "Pots, Labels and People: Burying Ethnicity in the Cemetery at Aghia Photia, Siteias," in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (Sheffield 1998) 133-149.
G. Walberg, "Early Cretan Tombs: The Pottery," in R. Laffineur (ed.), Thanatos: Les coutumes funéraires en Égée à l'Age du Bronze [Aegaeum 1] (Liège 1987) 53-60.
Metalwork
K. Branigan, Aegean Metalwork of the Early and Middle Bronze Age (Oxford 1974).
H.
Mangou and P. V. Ioannou, "On the Chemical Composition of
Prehistoric Greek Copper-based Artefacts from Crete," BSA
93 (1998) 91-102.
H. Mangou and P. V. Ioannou, “Trends in the Making of
Copper-based Artefacts during the Prehistoric Period (4000-1050 B.C.),”
Opuscula Atheniensia 27(2002)
105-118.
G. Nakou, "The Cutting Edge: A New Look at Early Aegean Metallurgy," JMA 8:2(1995) 1-32.
Z. A. Stos-Gale, "The Origin of Metal Used for Making Weapons in Early and Middle Minoan Crete," in C. Scarre and F. Healy (eds.), Trade and Exchange in Prehistoric Europe (Oxford 1993) 115-129.
A. Vasilakis, O chrysos kai o argyros sten Krete kata ten Proïme Periodo tou Chalkou (Heraklion 1996).
Seals and Sealings
J. Aruz, "The Silver Cylinder Seal from Mochlos," Kadmos 23(1984) 186-187.
A. Blasingham, "The Seals from the Tombs of the Messara. Inferences as to Kinship and Social Organization," in O. Krzyszkowska and L. Nixon (eds.), Minoan Society (Bristol 1983) 11-21.
K. Galanakis, Minoan Glyptic: Typology, Deposits and Iconography from the Early Minoan Period to the Late Minoan IB Destruction in Crete [BAR International Series 1442] (Oxford 2005).
E. Hallager, “New Evidence for Seal Use in the Pre- and Protopalatial Periods,” in W. Müller (ed.), Minoisch-mykenische Glyptik: Stil, Ikonographie, Funktion [CMS Beiheft 6] (Berlin 2000) 97-106.
A. Karytinos, “Sealstones in Cemeteries: A Display of Social Status?,“ in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (Sheffield 1998) 78-86.
A. Karytinos, “The Stylistic Development of Seals from Archanes-Phourni throughout the Prepalatial Period – Style and Scoial Meaning,” in W. Müller (ed.), Minoisch-mykenische Glyptik: Stil, Ikonographie, Funktion [CMS Beiheft 6] (Berlin 2000) 123-134.
O. Krzsyzkowska, "Early Cretan Seals: New Evidence for the Use of Bone, Ivory and Boar's Tusk," in I. Pini (ed.), Fragen und Probleme der bronzezeitlichen ägäischen Glyptik [CMS Beiheft. 3] (Berlin 1989) 111-126.
O. Krzyszkowska, Aegean Seals: An Introduction [BICS Supplement 85] (London 2005), esp. 57-78.
I. Pini, "Ein Beitrag zur chronologischen Ordnung der frühkretischen Siegel," in Pepragmena tou D' Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou I (Athens 1981) 421-435.
K. Sbonias, Frühkretische Siegel: Ansätze für eine Interpetation der sozial-politischen Entwicklung auf Kreta während der Frühbronzezeit [BAR International Series 620] (Oxford 1995).
K. Sbonias, “Specialization in the Early Minoan Seal Manufacture: Craftsmen, Settlements and the Organization of Production,” in W. Müller (ed.), Minoisch-mykenische Glyptik: Stil, Ikonographie, Funktion [CMS Beiheft 6] (Berlin 2000) 277-294.
P. Warren, "The Primary Dating Evidence for Early Minoan Seals," Kadmos 9(1970) 29-37.
J. Weingarten, “How Many Seals Make a Heap: Seals and Interconnections on Prepalatial Crete,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA: Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 759-766.
M. H. Wiencke, "Typology and Style of Prepalatial Seals," in Studien zur minoischen und helladischen Glyptik [CMS Beiheft 1] (Marburg 1981) 251-261.
P. Yule, Early Cretan Seals: A Study of Chronology (Mainz 1981).
P. Yule, "Notes on Scarabs and Aegean Chronology," BSA 78(1983) 359-367.
P. Yule, "Early and Middle Minoan Foreign Relations: the Evidence from Seals," SMEA 26(1987) 161-177.
Jewelry
C. Davaras, "Early Minoan Jewelry from Mochlos," BSA 70(1975) 101-114.
M. Effinger, Minoischer Schmuck [BAR International 646] (Oxford 1996).
E. Papageorgiou, “Chryso enotio tes Proïmes Epoches tou Chalkou stis sylloges tou Mouseiou Benake,” 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) 211-230.
C. Reinholdt, "Der Thyreatis-Hortfund in Berlin: Untersuchungen zum vormykenischen Edelmetallschmuck in Griechenland," JdI 108 (1993) 1-41.
A. Vasilakis, O chrysos kai o argyros sten Krete kata ten Proïme Periodo tou Chalkou (Heraklion 1996).
Trade and External Contacts
P. P. Betancourt, “Egyptian Connections at Hagios Charalambos,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA: Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 449-453.
T. Carter, "Reverberation of the International Spirit: Thoughts upon 'Cycladica' in the Mesara," in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 1] (Sheffield 1998) 59-77.
C. Doumas, "Proïstorikoi Kykladites sten Krete," AAA 9(1976) 69-80.
C. Doumas, "Proïstorikoi Kykladites sten Krete," AAA 12(1979) 105-109.
J. A. MacGillivray, P. M. Day, and R. E. Jones, "Dark-faced Incised Pyxides and Lids from Knossos: Problems of Date and Origin," in E. B. French and K. A. Wardle (eds.), Problems in Greek Prehistory (Bristol 1988) 91-94.
J.
Sakellarakis, "Ta kykladika stoicheia ton Archanon," AAA
10(1977) 93-115.
E. Shank, “New Evidence for Anatolian Relations with Crete in
EM I-IIA,” in R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA. Aegeans in the Central and
Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum
25] (Liège/Austin 2005) 103-106.
L. V. Watrous, “Cretan International Relations during the Middle Minoan
IA Period and the Chronology of Seager’s Finds from the Mochlos Tombs,”
R. Laffineur and E. Greco (eds.), EMPORIA.
Aegeans in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean [Aegaeum 25] (Liège/Austin
2005) 107-115.
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