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Environment

[Updated November 2007]


                *          Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, and Diet: General

                *          Agriculture and Animal Husbandry: Specific

                *          Climate

                *          Terrestrial Fauna

                *          Flora

                *          Fish and Shells

                *          Insects

                *          Geomorphology and Sea Level Changes

                *          Mineral Resources 

                *          Physical Anthropology of Human Remains and Palaeodemography

Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Diet: General

P. P. Betancourt and R. Hope Simpson, "The Agricultural System of Bronze Age Pseira," Cretan Studies 3(1992) 47-54.

A. Burford, Land and Labor in the Greek World (Baltimore 1993).

K. S. Christakis, "Pithoi and Food Storage in Neopalatial Crete: A Domestic Perspective," World Archaeology 31(1999) 1-20.

A. Dalby, Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece (London 1996).

P. De Fidio, “Dieta e gestione delle risorse alimentari in età micenea,” in O. Longo and P. Scarpi (eds.), Homo edens. Regimi, miti e pratiche dell’alimentazione nella civiltà del Mediterraneo (Milano 1989) 193-203.

H. Forbes, "The Ethnoarchaeological Approach to Ancient Greek Agriculture," in B. Wells (ed.),  Agriculture in Ancient Greece (Stockholm 1992) 87-101.

L. Foxhall, "Bronze to Iron: Agricultural Systems and Political Structures in Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece," BSA 90(1995) 239-250.

T. W. Gallant, Risk and Survival in Ancient Greece: Reconstructing the Rural Domestic Economy (Cambridge 1991).

P. Garnsey, Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World. Responses to Risk and Crisis (Cambridge 1988).

H. J. Greenfield and K. D. Fowler, The Secondary Products Revolution in Macedonia: The Zooarchaeological Remains from Megalo Nisi Galanis, a Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age Site in Greek Macedonia [BAR International 1414] (Oxford 2005).

P. Halstead, “Farming and Feasting in the Neolithic of Greece: The Ecological Context of Fighting with Food,” Documenta Praehistorica 31(2004) 151-161.

P. Halstead, “Sheep in the Garden: The Integration of Crop and Livestock Husbandry in Early Farming Regimes of Greece and Southern Europe,” in D. Serjeantson and D. Field (eds.), Animals in the Neolithic of Britain and Europe (Oxford 2006) 42-55.

Y. Hamilakis, "Consumption Patterns, Factional Competition and Political Developments in Bronze Age Crete," BICS 42(1997-98) 233-234.

Y. Hamilakis, "Eating the Dead: Mortuary Feasting and the Politics of Memory in Aegean Bronze Age Societies," in K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age (Sheffield 1998) 115-132.

Y. Hamilakis, "The Anthropology of Food and Drink Consumption and the Aegean Archaeology," in S. Vaughan and W. Coulson (eds.), Paleodiet in the Aegean (Oxford 2000) 59-67.

V. D. Hanson, The Other Greeks (New York 1994).

S. Isager and J. E. Skydsgaard, Ancient Greek Agriculture: An Introduction (London/New York 1992).

E. Kotjabopoulou, Y. Hamilakis, P. Halstead, C. Gamble, and P. Elefanti (eds.), Zooarchaeology in Greece: Recent Advances (London 2003).

C. Mee and J. Renard (eds.), Cooking Up the Past: Food and Culinary Practices in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean (Oxford 2007).

F. Megaloudi, Plants and Diet in Greece from Neolithic to Classic Periods: The Archaeobotanical Remains [BAR-IS 1516] (Oxford 2006).

F. R. Riley, The Role of the Traditional Mediterranean Diet in the Development of Minoan Crete: Archaeological, Nutritional and Biochemical Evidence [BAR International Series 810] (Oxford 1999).

R. Sallares, The Ecology of the Ancient Greek World (Ithaca 1991).

A. Sarpaki, "The Study of Palaeodiet in the Aegean: Food for Thought," in S. Vaughan and W. Coulson (eds.), Paleodiet in the Aegean (Oxford 2000) 115-121.

Y. Tzedakis and H. Martlew (eds.), Minoans and Mycenaeans: Flavours of their Time (Athens 1999).

S. Vaughan and W. Coulson (eds.), Paleodiet in the Aegean (Oxford 2000).

K. F. Vickery, Food in Early Greece (Chicago 1936).

P. Warren, “Cretan Food through Five Millennia,” Briciaka: A Tribute to W. C. Brice [Cretan Studies 9] (Amsterdam 2003) 271-284.

B. Wells (ed.),  Agriculture in Ancient Greece (Stockholm 1992).

C. R. Whittaker (ed.), Pastoral Economies in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge 1988).

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Agriculture and Animal Husbandry: Specific

M-C. Amouretti, Le pain et l'huile dans la Grèce antique (Paris 1986).

M-C. Amouretti and J-P. Brun (eds.), La production du vin et de l'huile en Méditerranée [BCH Supplement 26] (Paris 1993).

D. W. Anthony, The Social and Economic Implications of the Domestication of the Horse (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania 1985).

D. Anthony, "The 'Kurgan Culture', Indo-European Origins, and the Domestication of the Horse," Current Anthropology 27(1986) 291-313.

D. Anthony, "The Origins of Horseback Riding," Scientific American (Dec. 1991) 94-101.

D. W. Anthony and D. R. Brown, "The Origins of Horseback Riding," Antiquity 65(1991) 22-38.

H. Blitzer, "Olive Cultivation and Oil Production in Minoan Crete," in M-C. Amouretti and J-P. Brun (eds.), La production du vin et de l'huile en Méditerranée [BCH Supplement 26] (Paris 1993) 163-175.

J. Boessneck and A. von den Driesch, "Die zoologische Dokumentation der Reste von vier Pferden und einem Hund aus einem mykenischen Schachtgrab in Kokla bei Argos (Peloponnes)," Spixiana 7:3 (1984) 327-333.

E. Bloedow, “The Significance of the Goat in Minoan Culture,” PZ 78(2003) 1-59.

C. Boulotis, "To ladi stous mykenaïkous chronous," in Elia kai Ladi (Athens 1996) 19-58.

C. Chang, "Sheep for the Ancestors: Ethnoarchaeology and the Study of Ancient Pastoralism," in P. N. Kardulias (ed.), Beyond the Site: Regional Studies in the Aegean Area (Lanham 1994) 353-371.

C. Chang and H. A. Koster, "Beyond Bones: Toward an Archaeology of Pastoralism," in M. B. Schiffer (ed.), Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 9 (New York 1986) 97-148.

C. Chang and P. A. Tourtellotte, "The Ethnoarchaeological Survey of Pastoral Transhumant Sites in the Grevena Prefecture of Greece," JFA 20(1993) 249-264.

J. F. Cherry, "Pastoralism and the Role of Animals in the Pre- and Protohistoric Economies of the Aegean," in C. R. Whittaker (ed.), Pastoral Economies in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge 1988) 6-34.

L. P. Day, "Dog Burials in the Greek World," AJA 88(1984) 21-32.

E. E. Deligianni, “To krasi ste minoïke Krete,” in Proceedings of the 8th International Cretological Congress (Heraklion, 9-14 September 1996) A1 [Heraklion 2000] 355-371.

W. Donlan, "The Homeric Economy," in I. Morris and B. Powell (eds.), A New Companion to Homer [Mnemosyne Supplement 163] (Leiden/New York/Köln 1997) 649-667.

M. Follieri and G. B. L. Coccolini, "Food Plants and Climate of Minoan Crete," Giornale Botanico Italiano 116(1982) 149-150.

H. Forbes, "Ethnoarchaeology and the Place of the Olive in the Economy of the Southern Argolid, Greece," in M-C. Amouretti and J-P. Brun (eds.), La production du vin et de l'huile en Méditerranée [BCH Supplement 26] (Paris 1993) 213-226.

H. Forbes, "The Identification of Pastoralist Sites within the Context of Estate-based Agriculture in Ancient Greece: Beyond the Transhumance versus Agro-pastoralism Debate," BSA 90(1995) 325-338.

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).

L. Foxhall, Olive Cultivation within Greek and Roman Agriculture: The Ancient Economy Revisited (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Liverpool 1990).

L. Foxhall, "Oil Extraction and Processing Equipment in Classical Greece," in M-C. Amouretti and J-P. Brun (eds.), La production du vin et de l'huile en Méditerranée [BCH Supplement 26] (Paris 1993) 183-200.

L. Foxhall and H. A. Forbes, "Sitometreia: The Role of Grain as a Staple Food in Classical Antiquity," Chiron 12(1982) 41-90.

T. W. Gallant, A Fisherman's Tale: An Analysis of the Potential Productivity of Fishing in the Ancient World [Miscellanea Graeca 7] (Gent 1985).

H. J. Greenfield, "The Origins of Milk and Wool Production in the Old World: A Zooarchaeological Perspective from the Central Balkans," Current Anthropology 29(1988) 573-593.

J. R. A. Greig and P. M. Warren, “Early Bronze Age Agriculture in Western Crete,” Antiquity 48(1974) 130-132.

S. Hadjisavvas, Olive Oil Processing in Cyprus. From the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Period [Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 99] (Nicosia 1992).

P. Halstead, "Counting Sheep in Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece," in I. Hodder, G. Isaac, and N. Hammond (eds.), Pattern of the Past (Cambridge 1981) 307-339.

P. Halstead, "Traditional and Ancient Rural Economy in Mediterranean Europe: Plus Ça Change?," JHS 107(1987) 77-87.

P. Halstead, "The Economy Has a Normal Surplus: Economic Stability and Social Change among Early Farming Communities of Thessaly, Greece," in P. Halstead and J. O'Shea (eds.), Bad Year Economics: Cultural Responses to Risk and Uncertainty (Cambridge 1989) 68-80.

P. Halstead, "Like Rising Damp? An Ecological Approach to the Spread of Farming in South East and Central Europe," in A. Milles, D. Williams, and N. Gardner (eds.), The Beginnings of Agriculture (Oxford 1989) 23-53.

P. Halstead, "Present to Past in the Pindhos: Diversification and Specialization in Mountain Economies," Rivista di Studi Liguri 56(1990) 61-80.

P. Halstead, "Lost Sheep? On the Linear B Evidence for Breeding Flocks at Knossos and Pylos," Minos 25-26(1990-91) 343-365.

P. Halstead, “Dimini and the ‘DMP’: Faunal Remains and Animal Exploitation in Late Neolithic Thessaly,” BSA 87(1992) 29-59.

P. Halstead, “Agriculture in the Bronze Age Aegean: Towards a Model of Palatial Economy,” in B. Wells (ed.),  Agriculture in Ancient Greece (Stockholm 1992) 105-117.

P. Halstead, "From Reciprocity to Redistribution: Modelling the Exchange of Livestock in Neolithic Greece," Anthropologica 16(1992) 19-30.

P. Halstead, "Late Bronze Age Grain Crops and Linear B Ideograms *65, *120, and *121," BSA 90(1995) 229-234.

P. Halstead, "Pastoralism or Household Herding? Problems of Scale and Specialization in Early Greek Animal Husbandry," World Archaeology 28(1996) 20-42.

P. Halstead, "The Development of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Greece: When, How, Who and What?," in D. R. Harris (ed.), The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia (London 1996) 296-309.

P. Halstead, "Linear B Evidence for the Management of Sheep Breeding at Knossos: Production Targets and Deficits in the KN Dl(1) and Do Sets," Minos 31-32(1996-97) 187-199.

P. Halstead, "Mycenaean Agriculture: The Nature of Palatial Intervention," BICS 43(1999) 211-212.

P. Halstead, “Mycenaean Wheat, Flax and Sheep: Palatial Intervention in Farming and its Implications for Rural Society,” in S. Voutsaki and J. Killen (eds.), Economy and Politics in the Mycenaean Palace States (Cambridge 2001) 38-50.

P. Halstead, “Texts, Bones and herders: Approaches to Animal Husbandry in Late Bronze Age Greece,” in J. Bennet and J. Driessen (eds.), A-NA-QO-TA: Studies Presented to John T. Killen [Minos 33-34 (1998-99)] (Salamanca 2002) 149-189.

P. Halstead, “Texts and Bones: Contrasting Linear B and Archaeozoological Evidence for Animal Exploitation in Mycenaean Southern Greece,” in E. Kotjabopoulou, Y. Hamilakis, P. Halstead, C. Gamble, and P. Elefanti (eds.), Zooarchaeology in Greece: Recent Advances (London 2003) 257-261.

P. Halstead, “Life After Mediterranean Polyculture: the Subsistence Subsystem and the Emergence of Civilisation Revisited,” in J. C. Barrett and P. Halstead (eds.), The Emergence of Civilisation Revisited [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 6] (Sheffield 2004) 189-206.

P. Halstead and G. Jones, "Agrarian Ecology in the Greek Islands: Time, Stress, Scale and Risk," JHS 109(1989) 41-55.

Y. Hamilakis, "Wine, Oil and the Dialectics of Power in Bronze Age Crete: A Review of the Evidence," OJA 15(1996) 1-32.

Y. Hamilakis, "Food Technologies/Technologies of the Body: the Social Context of Wine and Oil Production and Consumption in Bronze Age Crete," World Archaeology 31(1999) 38-54.

B. Hänsel and S. Zimmer (eds.), Die Indogermanen und das Pferd [Festschrift B. Schlerath] (Budapest 1994).

J. M. Hansen, "Agriculture in the Prehistoric Aegean: Data versus Speculation," AJA 92(1988) 39-52.

J. Harlan, “Plant Domestication: Diffuse Origins and Diffusions,” in C. Bargozzi (ed.), The Origin and Domestication of Cultivated Plants (Amsterdam 1986) 21-34.

M. Heltzer, "Olive Oil and Wine Production in Phoenicia and in the Mediterranean Trade," in M-C. Amouretti and J-P. Brun (eds.), La production du vin et de l'huile en Méditerranée [BCH Supplement 26] (Paris 1993) 49-54.

G. Hillman, "Reconstructing Crop Husbandry Practices from Charred Remains of Crops," in R. Mercer (ed.), Farming Practices in British Prehistory (Edinburgh 1981) 123-162.

G. C. Hillman, "Interpretation of Archaeological Plant Remains: The Application of Ethnographic Models from Turkey," in W. van Zeist and W. A. Casparie (eds.), Plants and Ancient Man: Studies in Palaeoethnobotany (Rotterdam 1984) 1-41.

V. Isaakidou, “Ploughing with Cows: Knossos and the Secondary Products Revolution,” in D. Serjeantson and D. Field (eds.), Animals in the Neolithic of Britain and Europe (Oxford 2006) 95-112.

G. E. M. Jones, "Crop Processing at Assiros Toumba: A Taphonomic Study," ZfA 15(1981) 105-111.

G. Jones, "Agricultural Practice in Greek Prehistory," BSA 82(1987) 115-123.

G. Jones, "Charred Grain from Late Bronze Age Gla, Boeotia," BSA 90(1995) 235-238.

J. T. Killen, "The Role of the State in Wheat and Olive Production in Mycenaean Crete," Aevum 72(1998) 19-23.

E. Kosmetatou, "Horse Sacrifices in Greece and Cyprus," JPR 7(1993) 31-41.

I. Mainland and P. Halstead, “The Diet and Management of Domestic Sheep and Goats at Neolithic Makriyialos, N. Greece,” in J. Davies, M. Fabis, I. Mainland, M. Richards, and R. Thomas (eds.), Diet and Health in Past Animal Populations: Current Research and Future Directions (Oxford 2005) 104-112.

E. A. Mancz, An Examination of Changing Patterns of Animal-Husbandry of the Late Bronze Age and Dark Ages of Nichoria in the Southwestern Peloponnese (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota 1989; University Microfilms International #89-18286).

R. H. Meadow and H. P. Uerpmann (eds.), Equids in the Ancient World I-II (Wiesbaden 1986).

T. G. Palaima, "The Knossos Oxen Dossier: The Use of Oxen in Mycenaean Crete,"  in J-P. Olivier [ed.], Mykenaïka [BCH Supplement 25] (1992) 463-474.

R. Palmer, Wine in the Mycenaean Palace Economy (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cincinnati 1989).

R. Palmer, "Wheat and Barley in Mycenaean Society," in J-P. Olivier [ed.], Mykenaïka [BCH Supplement 25] (1992) 475- 495.

R. Palmer, Wine in the Mycenaean Palace Economy [Aegaeum 10] (Liège/Austin 1994).

R. Palmer, "Bridging the Gap: The Continuity of Greek Agriculture from the Mycenaean to the Historical Period," in D. Tandy (ed.), Class, Ethnicity, and Political Economy in the Early Aegean [forthcoming].

D. J. Pullen, "Ox and Plow in the Early Bronze Age Aegean," AJA 96(1992) 45-54.

O. Rackham and J. A. Moody, “Terraces,” in B. Wells (ed.),  Agriculture in Ancient Greece (Stockholm 1992) 123-130.

D. S. Reese, "Equid Sacrifices/Burials in Greece and Cyprus: An Addendum," JPR 9(1995) 35-42.

F. R. Riley, “Olive Oil Production on Bronze Age Crete: Nutritional Properties, Processing Methods and Storage Liofe of Minoan Olive Oil,” OJA 21(2002) 63-75.

C. Runnels and J. Hansen, "The Olive in the Prehistoric Aegean: The Evidence for Domestication in the Early Bronze Age," OJA 5(1986) 299-308.

A. Sarpaki, The Palaeoethnobotany of the West House at Akrotiri, Thera: A Case Study (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Sheffield 1987).

A. Sarpaki, “The palaeoethnobotanical approach. The Mediterranean triad, or is it a quartet?” in B. Wells (ed.),  Agriculture in Ancient Greece (Stockholm 1992) 61-76.

A. Sarpaki, “A Palaeoethnobotanical Study of the West House, Akrotiri, Thera,” BSA 87(1992) 219-230.

A. Sarpaki, “Processed Cerals and Pulses from the Late Bronze Age Site of Akrotiri, Thera: Preparations Prior to Consumption: A Preliminary Approach to Their Study,” BSA 96(2001) 27-40.

A. Sarpaki and G. Jones, "Ancient and Modern Cultivation of Lathyrus clymenum in the Greek Islands," BSA 85(1990) 363-368.

G. Sfikas, Trees and Shrubs of Greece (Athens 1995).

A. G. Sherratt, "The Secondary Explitation of Animals in the Old World," World Archaeology 15(1983) 90-104.

Y. Tzedakis and H. Martlew (eds.), Minoans and Mycenaeans: Flavours of their Time (Athens 1999).

S. M. Valamoti and G. Jones, “Plant Diversity and Storage at Mandalo, Macedonia, Greece: Archaeobotanical Evidence from the Final Neolithic and Early Bronze Age,” BSA 98(2003) 1-35.

S. M. Valamoti, M. Mangafa, Ch. Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, and D. Malamidou, “Grape-pressings from Northern Greece: The Earliest Wine in the Aegean”,” Antiquity 81(2007) 54-61.

E. A. Vardaki, “Animal Husbandry Revisited: the Social Significance of Meat Consumption in a Highland Village of Mt. Psiloritis, Central Crete,” in P. Halstead and J. C. Barrett (eds.), Food, Cuisine and Society in Prehistoric Greece [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 5] (Oxford 2004) 196-205.

K. F. Vickery, "Food in Early Greece," Studies in the Social Sciences 20(1936) 9-97.

B. West and B-X. Zhou, "Did Chickens Go North? New Evidence for Domestication," JAS 15(1988) 515-533.

J. Yakar, "Meat in the Diet of Early Bronze Age Anatolian Farmers," in R. M. Boehmer and J. Maran (eds.), Lux Orientis: Archäologie zwischen Asien und Europa. Festschrift für Harald Hauptmann zum 65. Geburtstag (Rahden 2001) 433-442.

D. Zohary and M. Hopf, Domestication of Plants in the Old World [3rd edition] (Oxford 2000).

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Climate

H. Allen, "The Environmental Conditions of the Kopaïs Basin, Boeotia during the Post Glacial with Special Reference to the Mycenaean Period," in J. Bintliff (ed.), Recent Developments in the History and Archaeology of Central Greece [BAR International Series 666] (Oxford 1997) 39-58.

E. Asouti, “Wood Charcoal from Santorini (Thera): New Evidence for Climate, Vegetation and Timber Imports in the Aegean Bronze Age,” Antiquity 77(2003) 471-484.

M. G. L. Baillie, "Extreme Environmental Events and the Linking of the Tree-ring and Ice-core Records," Radiocarbon 37(1995).

M. G. L. Baillie, “Evidence for Climatic Deterioration in the 12th and 17th Centuries BC,” in B. Hänsel (ed.), Mensch und Umwelt in der Bronzezeit Europas (Kiel 1998) 49-55.

W. H. Berger and Labeyrie (eds.), Abrupt Climate Change: Evidence and Implications (Dordrecht 1987).

J. L. Bintliff and W. Van Zeist (eds.), Palaeoclimates, Palaeoenvironments, and Human Communities in the Eastern Mediterranean Region in Later Prehistory (Oxford 1982).

R. A. Bryson, "A Perspective on Climatic Change," Science 184(1974) 753-760.

R. A. Bryson et al., "Drought and the Decline of Mycenae," Antiquity 47(1973) 46-50.

M. I. Budyko, G. S. Golitsyn, and Y. A. Izrael, Global Climate Catastrophes [trans. V. G. Yanuta] (Berlin 1988).

R. Carpenter, Discontinuity in Greek Civilization (Princeton 1966).

COHMAP Members, "Climatic Changes of the Last 18,000 Years," Science 241(1988) 1043-1052.

T. J. Crowley and G. R. North, Paleoclimatology (Oxford 1991).

H. N. Dalfes, G. Kukla, and H. Weiss (eds.), Third Millennium B. C. Climate Change and Old World Collapse (Berlin 1997).

J. Driessen, “Towards an Archaeology of Crisis: Defining the Long-term Impact of the Bronze Age Santorini Eruption,” in R. Torrence and J. Grattan (eds.), Natural Disasters and Cultural Change (London/New York 2002) 250-263.

M. Follieri and G. B. L. Coccolini, "Food Plants and Climate of Minoan Crete," Giornale Botanico Italiano 116(1982) 149-150.

C. U. Hammer, "Dating by Physical and Chemical Seasonal Variations and Reference Horizons," in H. Oeschger and C. C. Langway, Jr. (eds.), The Environmental Record in Glaciers and Ice Sheets (New York 1989) 99-121.

J. T. Houghton, G. J. Jenkins, and J. J. Ephraums (eds.), Climate Change: The IPCC Scientific Assessment (Cambridge 1990).

M. Hughes, P. M. Kelly, J. Pilcher, and V. C. LaMarch, Jr. (eds.), Climate from Tree Rings (Cambridge 1981).

P. I. Kuniholm, "Archaeological Evidence and Non-evidence for Climatic Change," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A 330(1990) 645-655.

P. I. Kuniholm, “Climatology,” in E. M. Meyers (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (New York 1997) 37-38.

L. Jeftic, J. D. Milliman, and G. Sestini (eds.), Climatic Change and the Mediterranean (London 1992).

S. Manning, "Cultural Change in the Aegean c. 2200 B.C.," in H. Nüzhet Dalfes, G. Kukla, and H. Weiss (eds.), Third Millennium B.C. Climate Change and Old World Collapse (Berlin 1997) 149-171.

J. Moody, "Holocene Climate Change in Crete: an Archaeologist's View," in P. Halstead and C. Frederick (eds.), Landscape and Land Use in Postglacial Greece [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 3] 52-61.

J. Moody, “Unravelling the Threads: Climate Changes in the Late Broonze III Aegean,” in A. L. D’Agata, J. Moody, and E. Williams (eds.), Ariadne’s Threads: Connections between Crete and the Greek Mainland in Late Minoan III (LM IIIA2 to LM IIIC) (Athens 2005) 443-470 [with response by J. A. MacGillivray (471-474).

D. Papageorgiou, "Revmata kai anemoi sto voreio Aigaio," in C. G. Doumas and V. La Rosa (eds.), E Poliochne kai e Proïme Epoche tou Chalkou sto Boreio Aigaio (Athens 1997) 424-442.

A. Philippson, Das Klima Griechenlands (Bonn 1948).

G. de Q. Robin (ed.), The Climatic Record in Polar Ice Sheets (Cambridge 1983).

R. Torrence and J. Grattan (eds.), Natural Disasters and Cultural Change (London/New York 2002).

B. Weiss, "The Decline of the Late Bronze Age Civilization as a Possible Response to Climatic Change," Climatic Change 4(1982) 173-198.

H. Weiss, "Beyond the Younger Dryas. Collapse as Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change in Ancient West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean," in G. Bawden and R. M. Reycraft (eds.), Environmental Disaster and the Archaeology of Human Response (Albuquerque 2000) 75-98.

T. M. L. Wigley, M. J. Ingram, and G. Farmer (eds.), Climate and History: Studies in Past Climates and their Impact on Man (Cambridge 1981).

H. E. Wright, Jr. "Palaeoecology, Climatic Change and Aegean Prehistory," in N. C. Wilkie and W. D. E. Coulson (eds.), Contributions to Aegean Archaeology (Minneapolis 1985) 183-195.

H. E. Wright, Jr., T. Kutzbach, T. Webb III, W. F. Ruddiman, F. A. Street-Perrott, and P. J. Bartlein (eds.), Global Climates since the Last Glacial Maximum (Minneapolis 1993).

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Terrestrial Fauna

K-P. Amberger, Neue Tierknochenfunde aus der Magula Pevkakia in Thessalien II: Die Wiederkäuer (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Munich 1979).

C. Becker, Kastanas: Die Tierknochenfunde (Berlin 1986).

C. Becker, :Die Tierknochenfunde von der Platia Magoula Zarkou: Neue Untersuchungen zu Haustierhaltung, Jagd und Rohstoffverwendung im neolithisch-bronzezeitlichen Thessalien," PZ 66(1991) 14-78.

J. Boessneck and A. von den Driesch, "Ein Löwenfund aus Tiryns," AA (1979) 447-449.

J. Boessneck and A. von den Driesch, "Ein Beleg für das Vorkommen des Löwen auf
dem Peloponnes in 'herakleischer' Zeit," AA (1981) 257-258.

J. Boessneck and A. von den Driesch, "Die zoologische Dokumentation der Reste von vier Pferden und einem Hund aus einem mykenischen Schachtgrab in Kokla bei Argos (Peloponnes)," Spixiana 7:3 (1984) 327-333.

L. P. Day, "Dog Burials in the Greek World," AJA 88(1984) 21-32.

A. von den Driesch, "Haus- und Jagdtiere im vorgeschichtlichen Thessalien," PZ 62(1987) 1-21.

A. von den Driesch, "Archäozoologische Untersuchungen an Tierknochen aus dem dritten und ersten vorchristlichen Jahrtausend vom Besik-Yassitepe, Westtürkei," Studiea Troica 9(1999) 439-474.

A. von den Driesch and J. Boessneck, "Die Tierreste von der mykenischen Burg Tiryns bei Nauplion (Peloponnes), Tiryns XI (Mainz 1990) 87-164.

G. Forstenpointner, "Stierspiel oder Bocksgesang? Archäozoologische Aspekte zur Interpretation des Hornviehs als Opfertier in der Ägäis," in F. Blakolmer (ed.), Österreichische Forschungen zur ägäischen Bronzezeit 1998 (Vienna 2000) 51-68.

N.-G. Gejvall, Lerna I: The Fauna (Princeton 1969).

P. Halstead, "Man and Other Animals in Later Greek Prehistory," BSA 82(1987) 71-83.

P. Halstead, "Dimini and the 'DMP'; Faunal Remains and Animal Exploitation in Late Neolithic Thessaly," PZ 62   1-21.

P. Halstead, "Lost Sheep? On the Linear B Evidence for Breeding Flocks at Mycenaean Knossos and Pylos," Minos 25-26(1990-91) 343-365.

P. Halstead, "Linear B Evidence for the Management of Sheep Breeding at Knossos: Production Targets and Deficits in the KN Dl(1) and Do Sets," Minos 31-32(1996-1997) [1998] 187-199.

P. Halstead, "Missing Sheep: On the Meaning and Wider Significance of O  in Knossos Sheep Records," BSA 94(1999) 145-166.

P. Halstead, “Carcasses and Commensality: Investigating the Social Context of Meat Consumption in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Greece,” in C. Mee and J. Renard (eds.), Cooking Up the Past: Food and Culinary Practices in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean (Oxford 2007) 25-48.

Y. Hamilakis, "A Footnote on the Archaeology of Power: Animal Bones from a Mycenaean Chamber Tomb at Galatas, NE Peloponnese," BSA 91(1996) 153-166.

Y. Hamilakis, "Cretan Pleistocene Fauna and Archaeological Remains: The Evidence from Sentoni Cave (Zoniana, Rethymnon)," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 231-239.

Y. Hamilakis, “Zooarchaeology of Neolithic Theopetra – Preliminary Report,” in N. Kyparissi-Apostolika (ed.), Theopetra Cave: Twelve Years of Excavation and Research 1987-1998 (Athens 2000) 263-268.

B. Hesse and D. Perkins, Jr., "Faunal Remains from Karatas-Semayük in Southwest Anatolia: An Interim Report," JFA 1(1974) 149-160.

G. Hinz, Neue Tierknochenfunde aus der Magula Pevkakia in Thessalien I: Die Nichtwiederkäuer (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Munich 1979).

R. N. L. B. Hubbard, "Fallow Deer in Prehistoric Greece, and the Analogy between Faunal Spectra and Pollen Analyses," Antiquity 69(1995) 527-538.

V. Isaakidou, “Cooking in the Labyrinth: Exploring “Cuisine” at Bronze Age Knossos,” in C. Mee and J. Renard (eds.), Cooking Up the Past: Food and Culinary Practices in the Neolithic and Bronze Age Aegean (Oxford 2007) 5-24.

M. R. Jarman, "Human Influence in the Development of the Cretan Mammalian Fauna," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 211-229.

B. Jordan, Tierknochenfunde aus der Magula Pevkakia in Thessalien (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Munich 1975).

W. E. Klippel and L. M. Snyder, "Dark-Age Fauna from Kavousi, Crete: The Vertebrates from the 1987 and 1988 Excavations," Hesperia 60(1991) 179-186.

E. Kotjabopoulou, Y Hamilakis, P. Halstead, C. Gamble, and P. Elefanti (eds.), Zooarchaeology in Greece: Recent Advances [BSA Studies 9] (London 2003).

E. Lax and T. F. Strasser, "Early Holocene Extinctions on Crete: The Search for the Cause," JMA 5(1992) 203-224.

V. Milojcic, J. Boessneck, and M. Hopf (eds.), Argissa-Magula I: Das präkeramische Neolithikum sowie die Tier- und Pflanzenreste (Bonn 1962).

S. Newton, “The Mesolithic Fauna from Theopetra Cave,” in N. Galanidou and C. Perlès (eds.), The Greek Mesolithic: Problems and Perspectives [BSA Studies 10] (London 2003) 199-205.

G. Nobis, "Der 'Minotaurus' von Knossos auf Kreta - im Lichte moderner archäozoologischer Forschung," Tier und Museum 2:1(1990) 15-19.

G. Nobis, "Archäozoologische Untersuchungen von Tierresten aus dem 'Palast des Nestor' bei Pylos in Messenien/SW-Peloponnes," ZfA 27(1993) 151-173.

G. Nobis, "Zur antiken Wild- und Haustierfauna Kretas - nach Studien an Tierresten aus den archäologischen Grabungen Poros bei Iraklion und Eleftherna bei Arkadi," Tier und Museum 3:4(1993) 109-120.

J. Ondrias, “The Taxonomy and Geographical Distribution of the Rodents of Greece,” Saügetierkundliche Mitteilungen 14(1966) 1-136.

A. Papamanoli-Guest, "Hunting and Trapping in Prehistoric Crete: A Proposal for Ethnoarchaeological Research," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 337-349.

S. Payne, “Faunal Evidence for Environmental/Climatic Change at Franchthi Cave (Southern Argolid, Greece), 25000 BP to 5000 BP – Preliminary Results,” in J. L. Bintliff and W. Van Zeist (eds.), Paleoclimates, Palaeoenvironments and Human Communities in the Eastern Mediterranean Region in Later Prehistory [BAR-IS 133] (Oxford 1982) 133-136.

S. Payne, "Zoo-archaeology in Greece: A Reader's Guide," in N. C. Wilkie and W. D. E. Coulson (eds.), Contributions to Aegean Archaeology (Minneapolis 1985) 211-244.

S. Payne, “The Small Mammals,” in J. W. and M. C. Shaw (eds.), Kommos I: The Kommos Region and the House of the Minoan Town (Princeton 1995) 278-291.

S. Payne and J. W. F. Reumer, “Notes on the Sorieidae (Insectivora, Mammalia) from Crete II: The Shrew Remains from Minoan and Classical Kommos,” Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 37(1986) 173-182.

R. Porter, "The Cretan Wild Goat (Capra aegagrus cretica) and the 'Theran Antelopes'," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 295-315.

D. S. Reese, "Recent and Fossil Invertebrates with a Note on the Nature of the MH I Fauna)," in W. A. McDonald and N. C. Wilkie (eds.), Excavations at Nichoria in Southwest Greece II: The Bronze Age Occupation (Minneapolis 1992) 770-778.

D. S. Reese, "Recent Work in Greek Zooarchaeology," in P. N. Kardulias (ed.), Beyond the Site: Regional Studies in the Aegean Area (Lanham 1994) 191-221.

D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996).

D. S. Reese, G. Belluomini, and M. Ikeya, "Absolute Dates for the Pleistocene Fauna of Crete," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 47-51.

D. S. Reese, M. J. Rose, and S. Payne, "The Minoan Fauna," in J. W. and M. C. Shaw (eds.), Kommos: An Excavation on the South Coast of Crete I: The Kommos Region, Ecology, and Minoan Industries (Princeton 1995)  163-291.

R. E. Sloan and M. A. Duncan, "Zooarchaeology at Nichoria," in G. Rapp, Jr. and S. E. Aschenbrenner (eds.), Excavations at Nichoria in Southwest Greece I: Site, Environs, and Techniques (Minneapolis 1978) 60-77.

L. M. Snyder and W. E. Klippel, "The Cretan Badger (Meles meles) as a Food Resource at Late Bronze/Early Iron Age Kavousi-Kastro," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 283-293.

P. Y. Sondaar, M. D. Dermitzakis, and J. de Vos, "The Palaeogeography and Faunal Evolution of the Land Mammals of Crete," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 61-67.

C. Sorrentino, "Poliochni: il materiale faunistico," in C. G. Doumas and V. La Rosa (eds.), E Poliochne kai e Proïme Epoche tou Chalkou sto Boreio Aigaio (Athens 1997) 157-167.

C. Trantalidou, "Animals and Human Diet in the Prehistoric Aegean," in TAW III.2(1990) 392-405.

E. Tsoukala, "The Animal Bones from Smari: A Preliminary Report," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 273-275.

J. Vanschoonwinkel, "Les animaux dans l'art minoen," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 351-412.

C. Walker, "Bones from Palaikastro Building I: A Preliminary Report," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 277-281.

B. Wilkins, "The Fauna from Italian Excavations on Crete," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 241-261.

E. Yannouli, "Dimitra, A Neolithic and Late Bronze Age Village in Northern Greece: The Faunal Remains," in D. Grammenos (ed.), Neolithike Makedonia (Athens 1997)  101-127.

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Flora

H. Allen, "A Postglacial Record from the Kopais Basin, Greece," in S. Bottema, G. Entjes-Nieborg, and W. van Zeist (eds.), Man's Role in the Shaping of the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape (Rotterdam 1990) 173-182.

E. Asouti, “Wood Charcoal from Santorini (Thera): New Evidence for Climate, Vegetation and Timber Imports in the Aegean Bronze Age,” Antiquity 77(2003) 471-484.

N. Athanasiadhis, "Zur postglazialen Vegetationsentwicklung von Litochoro Katerinis und Pertouli Trikalon (Griechenland)," Flora 164(1975) 99-132.

M. Atherden, "Human Impact on the Vegetation of Southern Greece and Problems of Palynological Interpretation: A Case Study from Crete," in P. Halstead and C. Frederick (eds.), Landscape and Land Use in Postglacial Greece [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 3] 62-78.

M. Atherden, J. Hall, and J. C. Wright, "A Pollen Diagram from the Northeast Peloponnese, Greece. Implications for Vegetation History and Archaeology," The Holocene 3:4(1993) 351-356.

J. H. Betts, "More Aegean Papyrus. Some Glyptic Evidence," AAA 11(1978) 61-74.

S. Bottema, Late Quaternary Vegetation History of Northwestern Greece (Ph. D. dissertation, University of Groningen 1974).

S. Bottema, "Palynological Investigations on Crete," Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 31(1980) 193-217.

S. Bottema, "Palynological Investigations in Greece with Special Reference to Pollen as an Indicator of Human Activities," Palaeohistoria 24(1982) 257-289.

S. Bottema, "Holocene Environment of the Southern Argolid: A Pollen Core from Kiladha Bay," in T. J. Wilkinson and S. T. Duhon (eds.), Excavations at Franchthi Cave, fascicule 6 (Bloomington 1990) 117-138.

S. Bottema, "The Prehistoric Environment of Greece: A Review of the Palynological Record," in P. N. Kardulias (ed.), Beyond the Site: Regional Studies in the Aegean Area (Lanham 1994) 45-68.

S. Bottema, "Notes on the Holocene Vegetation History of Crete," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996)  53-59.

S. Bottema, "The Holocene History of Walnut, Sweet-Chestnut, Manna-Ash and Plane
Tree in the Eastern Mediterranean," Pallas revue d'études antiques: Paysage et alimentation dans le monde grec 52(2000) 35-59.

S. Bottema and H. Woldring, "Anthropogenic Indicators in the Pollen Record of the Eastern Mediterranean," in S. Bottema, G. Entjes-Nieborg, and W. van Zeist (eds.), Man's Role in the Shaping of the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape (Rotterdam 1990) 231-265.

S. Bottema, H. Woldring, and B. Aytug, "Palynological Investigations on the Relations between Prehistoric Man and Vegetation in Turkey: The Beysehir Occupation Phase," Proceedings of the 5th Optima Congress, September 1986 (Istanbul 1986) 315-328.

W. J. Eastwood, N. Roberts, H. F. Lamb, and J. Tibby, "Holocene Environmental Change in Southwest Turkey: A Palaeoecological Record of Lake and Catchment-related Changes," Quaternary Science Reviews 18, 4-5(1999) 671-695.

W. J. Eastwood, N. Roberts, and H. F. Lamb, "Palaeoecological and Archaeological Evidence for Human Occupance in Southwest Turkey: The Beysehir Occupation Phase," AS 48(1998) 69-86.

K. Flint-Hamilton, Palaeoethnobotany of the Zas Cave on Naxos (Ph.D. dissertation, Duke University 1994).

J. Gennett, "Three Holocene Pollen Records from Southern Greece," Palynology 6(1982)

A. Gerasimidis, "Palynological Evidence for Human Influence on the Vegetation of Mountainous Regions in Northern Greece: The Case of Lailias, Serres," in P. Halstead and C. Frederick (eds.), Landscape and Land Use in Postglacial Greece [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 3] 128-37

J. R. A. Greig and J. Turner, "Some Pollen Diagrams from Greece and their Archaeological Significance," JAS 1(1974) 177-194.

A. T. Grove and O. Rackham, The Nature of Mediterranean Europe: An Ecological History (New Haven 2001).

J. M. Hansen, "Paleoethnobotany in Greece: Past, Present and Future," in N. C. Wilkie and W. D. E. Coulson (eds.), Contributions to Aegean Archaeology (Minneapolis 1985) 171-181.

J. M. Hansen, The Palaeoethnobotany of Franchthi Cave (Bloomington 1991).

J. M. Hansen, "Palaeoethnobotany in Regional Perspective," in P. N. Kardulias (ed.), Beyond the Site: Regional Studies in the Aegean Area (Lanham 1994) 173-190.

J. M. Hansen, "Palaeoethnobotany and Palaeodiet in the Aegean Region: Notes on Legume Toxicity and Related Pathologies," in S. Vaughan and W. Coulson (eds.), Paleodiet in the Aegean (Oxford 2000) 13-27.

M. Hopf, "Pflanzenfunde aus Lerna, Argolis," Der Züchter 31(1961) 239-247.

M. Hopf, "Nutzpflanzen vom lernäischen Golf," JRGZM 9(1962) 1-19.

S. Jahns, "Preliminary Notes on Human Influence and the History of Vegetation in S. Dalmatia and S. Greece," in S. Bottema, G. Entjes-Nieborg, and W. van Zeist (eds.), Man's Role in the Shaping of the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape (Rotterdam 1990) 333-340.

S. Jahns, "On the Holocene Vegetation History of the Argive Plain (Peloponnese, Southern Greece)," Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 2(1993) 187-203.

G. Jones and P. Halstead, "Charred Plant Remains from Neolithic - Bronze Age Platia Magoula Zarkou, Thessaly," BSA 88(1993) 1-3.

G. Jones and P. Halstead, "An Early Find of 'Fava' from Thebes," BSA 88(1993) 103-104.

H. Kroll, "Kulturpflanzen aus Dimini," in U. Korber-Grohne (ed.), Festschrift Maria
Hopf
[Archaeo-Physika 8] (1979) 173-189.

H. Kroll, "Thessalische Kulturpflanzen," ZfA 15(1981)

H. Kroll, "Kulturpflanzen von Tiryns," AA (1982) 467-485.

H. Kroll, Kastanas. Ausgrabungen in einem Siedlungshügel der Bronze- und Eisenzeit Makedoniens, 1975-1979  I:  Die Pflanzenfunde (Berlin 1983).

H. Kroll, "Zum Ackerbau gegen Ende der mykenischen Epoche in der Argolis," AA (1984) 211-222.

M. Mangafa, “Plant Exploitation from the Middle Palaeolithic to the Neolithic – from Food Gatherin to Farming. Archaeobotanical Study of the Theopetra Cave,” in N. Kyparissi-Apostolika (ed.), Theopetra Cave: Twelve Years of Excavation and Research 1987-1998 (Athens 2000) 135-137.

P. E. McGovern, S. J. Fleming, and S. H. Katz (eds.), The Origins and Ancient History of Wine (Philadelphia 1995).

F. Megaloudi, Plants and Diet in Greece from Neolithic to Classic Periods: The Archaeobotanical Remains [BAR-IS 1516] (Oxford 2006).

R. Meiggs, Trees and Timber in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Oxford 1982).

V. Milojcic, J. Boessneck, and M. Hopf (eds.), Argissa-Magula I: Das präkeramische Neolithikum sowie die Tier- und Pflanzenreste (Bonn 1962).

J. Moody, O. Rackham, and G. Rapp, Jr., "Environmental Archaeology of Prehistoric NW Crete," JFA 23(1996) 273-297.

M. Ndinou and E. Badal, "Local Vegetation and Charcoal Analysis: An Example from Two Late Neolithic Sites in Northern Greece," in P. Halstead and C. Frederick (eds.), Landscape and Land Use in Postglacial Greece [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 3] 38- 51.

R. Palmer, "Wine and Viticulture in the Linear A and B Texts of the Bronze Age Aegean," in P. E. McGovern, S. J. Fleming, and S. H. Katz (eds.), The Origins and Ancient History of Wine (Philadelphia 1995) 269-285.

R. Pasternak, “Bericht zu den archäobotanischen Funden aus Stadt-Nordost,” AA (2006) 134-138.

O. Rackham, "Land Use and the Native Vegetations of Greece," in M. Bell and S.
Limbrey (eds.), Archaeological Aspects of Woodland Ecology (Oxford 1982) 177-198.

O. Rackham, "Observations on the Historical Ecology of Boeotia," BSA 78(1983) 291-351.

O. Rackham, "Ancient Landscapes," in O. Murray and S. Price (eds.), The Greek City from Homer to Alexander (Oxford 1990) 85-111.

O. Rackham, "Ecology and Pseudo-Ecology: The Example of Ancient Greece," in  G. Shipley and J. Salmon (eds.), Human Landscapes in Classical Antiquity: Environment and Culture (London 1996) 16-43.

O. Rackham and J. Moody, The Making of the Cretan Landscape (Manchester 1996).

J. M. Renfrew, "A Report on Recent Finds of Carbonized Cereal Grains and Seeds from Prehistoric Thessaly," Thessalika 5(1966) 21-36.

J. M. Renfrew, Palaeoethnobotany and the Neolithic Period in Greece and Bulgaria (Ph.D. dissertation, Cambridge University 1969).

J. M. Renfrew, "Palaeobotanical Finds of Vitis from Grece," in P. E. McGovern, S. J. Fleming, and S. H. Katz (eds.), The Origins and Ancient History of Wine (Philadelphia 1995) 255-267.

S. Riehl, "Archäobotanik in der Troas," Studia Troica 9(1999) 367-409.

N. Roberts, "Human-induced Landscape Change in South and Southwest Turkey during the Later Holocene," in S. Bottema, G. Entjes-Nieborg, and W. van Zeist (eds.), Man's Role in the Shaping of the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape (Rotterdam 1990) 53-67.

C. T. Shay, J. M. Shay, K. A. Frego, and J. Zwiazek, "The Modern Flora and Plant Remains from Bronze Age Deposits at Kommos," in J. W. and M. C. Shaw (eds.), Kommos: An Excavation on the South Coast of Crete I: The Kommos Region, Ecology, and Minoan Industries (Princeton 1995)  91-162.

M. C. Sheehan, The Postglacial Vegetational History of the Argolid Peninsula, Greece (Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University 1979).

J. Turner and J. R. A. Greig, "Some Holocene Pollen Diagrams from Greece," Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 20(1975) 171-204.

E. L. Tyree, "Using Phytoliths to Identify Plant Remains from Archaeological Sites: A Phytolith Analysis of Modern Olive Oil and Wine Sediment," in S. Vaughan and W. Coulson (eds.), Paleodiet in the Aegean (Oxford 2000) 29-36.

S. M. Valamoti, "Charred Plant Remains from Makriyalos: Preliminary Observations" in P. Halstead (ed.), Neolithic Society in Greece [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 2] (Sheffield 1999) 136-138.

S. M. Valamoti and G. Jones, “Plant Diversity and Storage at Mandalo, Macedonia, Greece: Archaeobotanical Evidence from the Final Neolithic and Early Bronze Age,” BSA 98(2003) 1-35.

S. M. Valamoti, Plants and People in Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Northern Greece: An Archaeobotanical Investigation [BAR International Series S1258] (Oxford 2004).

P. Warren, "Did Papyrus Grow in the Aegean?," AAA 9(1976) 89-95.

W. C. Waterhouse, “Not So Much Saffron, Please,” CW 96(2003) 407-408.

U. Willerding, "Bronzezeitliche Pflanzenreste aus Iria und Synoro," Tiryns VI (Mainz 1973) 221-240.

K. J. Willis, "The Late Quaternary Vegetational History of Northwest Greece, I. Lake Gramoutsi," New Phytologist 121(1992) 101-117.

K. J. Willis, "The Late Quaternary Vegetational History of Northwest Greece, II. Rezina Marsh," New Phytologist 121(1992) 119-138.

K. J. Willis, "The Late Quaternary Vegetational History of Northwest Greece, III. A Comparative Study of Two Contrasting Sites," New Phytologist 121(1992) 139-155.

J. C. Wright. "Empty  Cups and Empty Jugs: The Social Role of Wine in Minoan and Mycenaean Societies," in P. E. McGovern, S. J. Fleming, and S. H. Katz (eds.), The Origins and Ancient History of Wine (Philadelphia 1995) 287-309.

E. Zangger, M. E. Timpson, S. B. Yazvenko, F. Kuhnke, and J. Knauss, "The Pylos Regional Archaeology Project, Part II: Landscape Evolution and Site Preservation," Hesperia 66(1997) 549-641.

S. Yazvenko, "From Pollen to Plants," in J. L. Davis (ed.), Sandy Pylos. An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino (Austin 1998) 14-20.

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Fish and Shells

[see also above under "Terrestrial Fauna"]

L. Karali-Yannacopoulou, "Sea Shells, Land Snails and Other Marine Remains from Akrotiri," TAW III.2(1990) 410-415.

L. Karali, "Marine Invertebrates and Minoan Art," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 413-422.

L. Karali-Yannacopoulou, "Dimitra - Matériel malacologique," in D. Grammenos (ed.), Neolithike Makedonia (Athens 1997) 200-211.

L. Karali, "E semasia ton ostreon tes proïstorikes Poliochnes," in C. G. Doumas and V. La Rosa (eds.), E Poliochne kai e Proïme Epoche tou Chalkou sto Boreio Aigaio (Athens 1997) 1195-200.

L. Karali, Shells in Aegean Prehistory [BAR International Series 761] (Oxford 1999).

L. Karali, "La malacofaune à l'âge du Bronze et à la période géométrique," Pallas revue d'études antiques: Paysage et alimentation dans le monde grec 52(2000) 115-131.

J. Powell, Fishing in the Prehistoric Aegean [SIMA Pocket Book 137] (Jonsered 1996).

D. Reese, "Recent and Fossil Shells from Tomb XVIII, Gypsades Cemetery, Knossos, Crete," BSA 77(1982) 249-250.

D. Reese, "Palaikastro Shells and Bronze Age Purple-dye Production in the Mediterranean Basin," BSA 82(1987) 201-206.

D. S. Reese, "The Marine Invertebrates," in J. W. and M. C. Shaw (eds.), Kommos I,1: The Kommos Region, Ecology, and Minoan Industries (Princeton 1995) 240-273.

M. Rose, With Line and Glittering Bronze Hook: Fishing in the Aegean Bronze Age (Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University 1994).

M. Rose, "Fishing at Franchthi Cave, Greece: Changing Environments and Patterns of Exploitation," OWAN 18:3(1995) 21-26.

M. J. Rose, "The Fish Remains," in J. W. and M. C. Shaw (eds.), Kommos I,1: The Kommos Region, Ecology, and Minoan Industries (Princeton 1995) 204-239.

M. Rose, "Fishing at Minoan Pseira: Formation of a Bronze Age Fish Assemblage from Crete," Archaeofauna 5(1996) 135-140.

M. J. Rose, "Notes on Fish Remains from Cretan Caves," in D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and its First Settlers (Madison 1996) 197-206.

M. L. Séfériadès, "Spondylus Gaederopus: Some Observations on the Earliest European Long Distance Exchange System," in S. Hiller and V. Nikolov (eds.), Karanovo III: Beiträge zum Neolithikum in Südosteuropa (Vienna 2000) 423-437.

J. Shackleton, Marine Molluscan Remains from Franchthi Cave [Excavations at Franchthi Cave fascicule 4] (Bloomington 1988].

N. J. Shackleton, "The Shells," in P. Warren, Myrtos. An Early Bronze Age Settlement in Crete (Oxford 1972).

P. R. Stieglitz, "The Minoan Origin of Tyrian Purple," Biblical Archaeologist 57(1994) 46-54.

G. Stratouli, "Die Fischerei in der Ägäis während des Neolithikums. Zur Technik und zum potentiellen Ertrag," PZ 71(1996) 1-27.

H. Todorova, "Die Spondylus-Problematik heute," in S. Hiller and V. Nikolov (eds.), Karanovo III: Beiträge zum Neolithikum in Südosteuropa (Vienna 2000) 415-422.

M. Uerpmann and W. Van Neer, "Fischreste aus den Grabungen in Troia (1989-1999)," Studia Troica 10(2000) 145-179.

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Insects

C. Davaras, "Minoan Beehives," in Studies in Honour  of G. E. Mylonas III (Athens 1989) 1-7.

R. P. Evershed, S. J. Vaughan, S. N. Dudd, and J. S. Soles, "Fuel for Thought? Beeswax in Lamps and Conical Cups from Late Minoan Crete," Antiquity 71(1997) 979-985.

R. P. Evershed, S. J. Vaughan, S. N. Dudd, and J. S. Soles, "Organic Residue, Petrographic and Typological Analyses of Late Minoan Lamps and Conical Cups from Excavations at Mochlos in East Crete, Greece," in S. Vaughan and W. Coulson (eds.), Paleodiet in the Aegean (Oxford 2000) 37-54.

E. Panagiotakopoulou, "Insect Remains from the Late Bronze Age Settlement of Akrotiri," BICS 42(1997-98) 216.

E. Panagiotakopoulou,  Archaeology and Entomology in the Eastern Mediterranean: Research into the History of Insect Synanthropy in Greece and Egypt [BAR International Series 836] (Oxford 2000).

E. Panagiotakopoulou and P. Buckland, "Insect Pests of Stored Products from Late Bronze Age Santorini, Greece," Journal of Stored Products Research 27(1991) 179-184.

E. Panagiotakopoulou, P. Buckland, P. M. Day, A. A. Sarpaki, and C. Doumas, "Natural Insecticides and Insect Repellents in Antiquity: A Review of the Evidence," Journal of Archaeological Research 22(1995) 705-710.

E. Panagiotakopoulou, P. C. Buckland, P. M. Day, C. Doumas, A. Sarpaki, and P. Skidmore, "A Lepidodopterous Cocoon from Thera and Evidence for Silk in the Aegean Bronze Age," Antiquity 71(1997) 420-429.

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Geomorphology and Sea Level Changes

C. Baeteman, "Late Holocene Geology of the Marathon Plain (Greece)," Journal of Coastal Research 1(1985) 173-185.

M. Bell and J. Boardman (eds.), Past and Present Soil Erosion: Archaeological and Geographical Perspectives (Exeter 1992).

J. L. Bintliff, Natural Environment and Human Settlement in Prehistoric Greece (Oxford 1977).

J. Bintliff, "Erosion in the Mediterranean Lands: A Reconsideration of Pattern, Process and Methodology," in M. Bell and J. Boardman (eds.), Past and Present Soil Erosion: Archaeological and Geographical Perspectives (Exeter 1992) 125-131.

S. Bottema, G. Entjes-Nieborg, and W. van Zeist (eds.), Man's Role in the Shaping of the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape (Rotterdam 1990).

E. Bozzo and F. Merlanti, "Evidenze archeogeofisiche nel territorio di Poliochni," in C. G. Doumas and V. La Rosa (eds.), E Poliochne kai e Proïme Epoche tou Chalkou sto Boreio Aigaio (Athens 1997) 145-156.

A. J. Clark, Soils and Land Use at an Archaeological Site: Pseira, Crete (Rome 1992).

D. A. Davidson, "Erosion in Greece during the First and Second Millennia B.C.," in R. A. Cullingford, D. A. Davidson, and J. Lewin (eds.), Timescales in Geomorphology (London 1980) 143-158.

D. A. Davidson and S. P Theocharopoulos, "A Survey of Soil Erosion in Viotia, Greece," in M. Bell and J. Boardman (eds.), Past and Present Soil Erosion: Archaeological and Geographical Perspectives (Exeter 1992)149-154.

A. Demitrack, “A Dated Stratigraphy for the Late Quaternary in Eastern Thessaly and What It Implies about Landscape Changes,” in J-C. Decourt, B. Helly, and K. Gallis (eds.), La Thessalie. Quinze années de recherches archéologiques, 1975-1990: Bilans et perspectives (Athens 1994) 37-40.

E. Finke, Landscape Evolution of the Argive Plain (Greece): Paleoecology, Holocene Depositional History and Coastline Changes (Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University 1988; University Microfilms International 88-26140).

C. D. Frederick and A. Krahtopoulou, "Deconstructing Agricultural Terraces: Examining the Influence of Construction Method on Stratigraphy, Dating and Archaeological Visibility," in P. Halstead and C. Frederick (eds.), Landscape and Land Use in Postglacial Greece [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 3] 79-94.

C. A. I. French and T. M. Whitelaw, "Soil Erosion, Agricultural Terracing and Site Formation Processes at Markiani, Amorgos, Greece: The Micromorphological Perspective," in L. G. Mendoni and A. Mazarakis Ainian (eds.), Kea - Kythnos. History and Archaeology (Paris 1998) 151-189.

J. Gifford, "Soil and Land Use Studies at Kommos," in J. W. and M. C. Shaw (eds.), Kommos: An Excavation on the South Coast of Crete I: The Kommos Region, Ecology, and Minoan Industries (Princeton 1995) 292-324.

J. Gifford, "The Physical Geology of the Western Mesara and Kommos," in J. W. and M. C. Shaw (eds.), Kommos: An Excavation on the South Coast of Crete I: The Kommos Region, Ecology, and Minoan Industries (Princeton 1995)  30-90.

P. Halstead, "Land Use in Postglacial Greece: Cultural Causes and Environmental Effects," in P. Halstead and C. Frederick (eds.), Landscape and Land Use in Postglacial Greece [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 3] (Sheffield 2000) 110-128.

P. Halstead and C. Frederick (eds.), Landscape and Land Use in Postglacial Greece [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 3].

M. D. Higgins and R. Higgins, A Geological Companion to Greece and the Aegean (Ithaca 1996).

P. A. James, C. B. Mee, and G. J. Taylor, "Soil Erosion and the Archaeological Landscape of Methana, Greece," JFA 21(1994) 395-416.

E. M. Kambouroglou, “E geomorphologike exelixe tou Kolpou tou Volou apo te Neolithike epoche mechri semera,” in J-C. Decourt, B. Helly, and K. Gallis (eds.), La Thessalie. Quinze années de recherches archéologiques, 1975-1990: Bilans et perspectives (Athens 1994) 41-52.

P. N. Kardulias and M. T. Shutes (eds.), Aegean Strategies: Studies of Culture and Environment on the European Fringe (Lanham 1997).

J. C. Kraft, "Geology of the Great Isthmus Corridor," in E. W. Kase, G. J. Szemler, N. C. Wilkie, and P. Wallace (eds.), The Great Isthmus Corridor Route: Explorations of the Phokis-Doris Expedition 1 (Dubuque 1991) 1-16.

J. C. Kraft, G. Rapp, Jr., and S. E. Aschenbrenner, "Late Holocene Paleogeographic Reconstructions in the Area of the Bay of Navarino: Sandy Pylos," JAS 7(1980) 187-210.

J. C. Kraft, G. Rapp, J. A. Gifford, and S. E. Aschenbrenner, “Coastal Change and Archaeological Settings in Elis,” Hesperia 74(2005) 1-39.

J. C. Kraft et al., "The Pass at Thermopylae, Greece," JFA 14(1987) 181-198.

A. Krahtopoulou, "Holocene Alluvial History of Northern Pieria, Macedonia, Greece," in P. Halstead and C. Frederick (eds.), Landscape and Land Use in Postglacial Greece [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 3] 15-27.

P. Karkanas, “Micromorphological Studies of Greek Prehistoric Sites: New Insights in the Interpretation of the Archaeological Record,” Geoarchaeology 17(2002) 237-259.

A. Krahtopoulou, "Geomorphic Processes and the Creation of the Modern Archaeological Record of Northern Pieria, Macedonia, Greece,” in K. P. Foster and R. Laffineur (eds.), METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 24] (Liège/Austin 2003) 453-459.

K. Lambeck, "Late Pleistocene and Holocene Sea Level Change in Greece and Southern Turkey: A Separation of Eustatic, Isostatic, and Tectonic Contributions," Geophysical  Journal International 106 [1995] 1022-1044.

K. Lambeck, "Sea-level Change and Shoreline Evolution in Aegean Greece since Upper Palaeolithic Times," Antiquity 70(1996) 588-611.

H. Lehmann, Argolis: Landeskunde der Ebene von Argos und ihrer Landgebiete (Athens 1937).

H. Marukian, E. Kambouroglou, and A. Sampson, "Coastal Evolution and Archaeology North and South of Chalkis in the Last 5000 Years," in A. Raban (ed.), Archaeology of Coastal Changes (Oxford 1988) 71-79.

J. Moody, O. Rackham, and G. Rapp, Jr., “Palaeoenvironmental Studies in West Crete,” Pepragmena tou ST’ Diethnous Kretologikou Synedriou A’2 (1990) 9-27

J. Moody, O. Rackham, and G. Rapp, Jr., "Environmental Archaeology of Prehistoric NW Crete," JFA 23(1996) 273-297.

T. M. Niemi, "Palaeoenvironmental History of Submerged Ruins on the Northern Euboean Gulf Coastal Plain, Central Greece," Geoarchaeology 5(1990) 323-347.

A. Nur and E. H. Cline, "Poseidon's Horses: Plate Tectonics and Earthquake Storms in the Late Bronze Age Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean," JAS 27(2000) 43-63.

S. Papageorgiou, S. Steiros, and G. Chourmouziades, “Scheseis physikou periballontos: geomorphologikon metabolon kai istorias tes katoikeses sten archaia Thessalia,” in J-C. Decourt, B. Helly, and K. Gallis (eds.), La Thessalie. Quinze années de recherches archéologiques, 1975-1990: Bilans et perspectives (Athens 1994) 21-28.

C. Perissoratis and T. H. van Andel, "Late Quaternary Alluviation and Soil Formation in the Southern Argolid: its History, Causes and Archaeological Implications," JAS 11(1988) 281-306.

A. Philippson and E. Kirsten, Die griechischen Landschaften II (Frankfurt 1956-58).

S. Price, T. Higham, L. Nixon, and J. Moody, “Relative Sea-Level Changes: Reassessment of Radiocarbon Dates from Sphakia and West Crete,” BSA 97(2002) 171-200.

O. Psychoyos, Déplacements de la ligne de rivage et sites archéologiques dans les régions côtières de la mer Égée au Néolithique et à l'Age du Bronze (Jonsered 1988).

O. Rackham and J. A. Moody, "Terraces," in B. Wells (ed.),  Agriculture in Ancient Greece (Stockholm 1992) 123-130.

O. Rackham and J. Moody, The Making of the Cretan Landscape (Manchester 1996).

G. Rapp, Jr. and J. C. Kraft, "Holocene Coastal Change in Greece and Aegean Turkey," in P. N. Kardulias (ed.), Beyond the Site: Regional Studies in the Aegean Area (Lanham 1994) 69-90.

C. Runnels, "Environmental Degradation in Ancient Greece," Scientific American (March 1995) 72-75.

S. C. Stiros, "Palaeogeographic Reconstruction of the Heraion-Vouliagmeni Lake Coast since Early Helladic Times," BSA 90(1995) 17-22.

S. C. Stiros, "Identification of Earthquakes from Archaeological Data: Methodology, Criteria and Limitations," in S. Stiros and R. E. Jones (eds.), Archaeoseismology [Fitch Laboratory Occasional Paper 7] (Exeter 1996) 129-152.

S. Stiros and R. E. Jones (eds.), Archaeoseismology [Fitch Laboratory Occasional Paper 7] (Exeter 1996).

S. Stiros and S. Papageorgiou, “Post-Mesolithic Evolution of the Thessalian Landscape,” in J-C. Decourt, B. Helly, and K. Gallis (eds.), La Thessalie. Quinze années de recherches archéologiques, 1975-1990: Bilans et perspectives (Athens 1994) 29-36.

D. Vallianou, "New Evidence of Earthquake Destructions in Late Minoan Crete," in S. Stiros and R. E. Jones (eds.), Archaeoseismology [Fitch Laboratory Occasional Paper 7] (Exeter 1996) 153-167.

T. van Andel, C. Runnels, and K. Pope, "Five Thousand Years of Land Use and Abuse in the Southern Argolid," Hesperia 55(1986) 103-128.

T. H. van Andel and J. C. Shackleton, "Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Coastlines of Greece and the Aegean," JFA 9(1982) 445-454.

T. H. van Andel and E. Zangger, "Landscape Stability and Destabilization in the Prehistory of Greece," in S. Bottema, G. Entjes-Nieborg, and W. van Zeist (eds.), Man's Role in the Shaping of the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape (Rotterdam 1990) 139-157.

T. H. van Andel, E. Zangger, and A. Demitrack, "Land Use and Soil Erosion in Prehistoric and Historical Greece," JFA 17(1990) 379-396.

T. H. van Andel, E. Zangger, and C. Perissoratis, "Quaternary Transgressive/Regressive Cycles in the Gulf of Argos, Greece," Quaternary Research 34(1990) 317-329.

C. Vita-Finzi, The Mediterranean Valleys: Geological Changes in Historical Times (Cambridge 1969).

K. Walsh, “Caring about Sediments: The Role of Cultural Geoarchaeology in Mediterranean Landscapes,” JMA 17(2004) 223-245.

B. Wells, "A Prehistoric Environmental Catastrophe. The Case of Berbati and Limnes," in K. A. Sheedy (ed.), Archaeology in the Peloponnese: New Excavations and Research (Oxford 1994) 65-76.

T. Whitelaw, "Settlement Instability and Landscape Degradation in the Southern Aegean in the Third Millennium B.C.," in P. Halstead and C. Frederick (eds.), Landscape and Land Use in Postglacial Greece [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 3] 135-161.

E. Zangger, "Prehistoric Coastal Environments in Greece: the Vanished Landscapes of Dimini Bay and Lake Lerna," JFA 18(1991) 1-15.

E. Zangger, "Tiryns Unterstadt," in E. Pernicka and G. Wagner (eds.), Archaeometry '90 (Basel 1991) 831-840.

E. Zangger, “Prehistoric and Historic Soils in Greece: Assessing the Natural Resources for Agriculture,” in B. Wells (ed.),  Agriculture in Ancient Greece (Stockholm 1992) 13-20.

E. Zangger, "Neolithic to Present Soil Erosion in Greece," in M. Bell and S. Limbrey (eds.), Archaeological Aspects of Woodland Ecology (Oxford 1982) 133-147.

E. Zangger,  The Geoarchaeology of the Argolid (Berlin 1993).

E. Zangger, "The Island of Asine: A Palaeogeographic Reconstruction," Opuscula Atheniensia  20(1994) 220-239.

E. Zangger, "Landscape Changes around Tiryns during the Bronze Age," AJA 98(1994) 189-212.

E. Zangger, "Prehistoric Earthquakes and their Consequences, as Preserved in Holocene Sediments from Volos and Argos, Greece," in S. Stiros and R. E. Jones (eds.), Archaeoseismology [Fitch Laboratory Occasional Paper 7] (Exeter 1996) 245-249.

E. Zangger, "The Environmental Setting" and "The Physical Scientist's Role in Regional Archaeology," in J. L. Davis (ed.), Sandy Pylos. An Archaeological History from Nestor to Navarino (Austin 1998) 1-9 and 10-13.

E. Zangger, "Naturkatastrophen in der ägäischen Bronzezeit: Forschungsgeschichte, Signifikanz und Beurteilungskriterien," in E. Olshausen and H. Sonnabend (eds.), Naturkatastrophen in der Antiken Welt [Stuttgarter Kolloquium zur Historischen Geographie des Altertums 6] (Stuttgart 1998) 211-241.

E. Zangger, M. E. Timpson, S. B. Yazvenko, F. Kuhnke, and J. Knauss, "The Pylos Regional Archaeology Project, Part II: Landscape Evolution and Site Preservation," Hesperia 66(1997) 549-641.

E. Zangger, H. Leiermann, W. Noack, and F. Kuhnke, "A 21st Century Approach to the Reconnaissance and Reconstruction of Archaeological Landscapes," in P. N. Kardulias and M. T. Shutes (eds.), Aegean Strategies: Studies of Culture and Environment on the European Fringe (Lanham 1997) 9-31.

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Mineral Resources

[see also under "Metals" in bibliography on "Mycenaean Trade"]

N. H. Gale and Z. A. Stos-Gale, "Bronze Age Copper Sources in the Mediterranean: A  New Approach," Science 216: 4541 (1982) 11-19.

N. H. Gale and Z. A. Stos-Gale, "Thorikos, Perati, and Bronze Age Silver Production in Laurion, Attica," Miscellanea Graeca 5(1982) 97-103.

N. H. Gale and Z. A. Stos-Gale, "Lead Isotope Studies in the Aegean (The British Academy Project)," in A. M. Pollard (ed.), New Developments in Archaeological Science [Proceedings of the British Academy 77] (Oxford 1992) 63-108.

N. H. Gale, Z. A. Stos-Gale, and J. L. Davis, "The Provenance of Lead Used at Ayia Irini, Keos," Hesperia 53(1984) 389-406.

M. D. Higgins and R. Higgins, A Geological Companion to Greece and the Aegean (Ithaca 1996).

P. N. Kardulias, "The Ecology of Bronze Age Flaked Stone Tool Production in Southern Greece: Evidence from Agios Stephanos and the Southern Argolid," AJA 96(1992) 421-442.

K. Kopaka and N. Chaniotakis, “Just Taste Additive? Bronze Age Salt from Zakros, Crete,” OJA 22(2003) 53-66.

V. McGeehan-Liritzis, "The Relationship between Metalwork, Copper Sources and the Evidence for Settlement in the Greek Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age," OJA 2(1983) 147-180.

E. Pernicka, "Erzlagerstätten in der Ägäis und ihre Ausbeutung in Altertum: Geochemische Untersuchungen zur Herkunftbestimmung archäologischer Metallobjeckte," JRGZM 35(1989) 607-714.

C. Runnels, A Diachronic Study and Economic Analysis of Millstones from the Argolid, Greece (Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University 1981; University Microfilms International #81-19022)

C. N. Runnels, "On Lithic Studies in Greece," in P. N. Kardulias (ed.), Beyond the Site: Regional Studies in the Aegean Area (Lanham 1994) 161-172.

C. Runnels and R. Cohen, "The Source of the Kitsos Millstones," in N. Lambert (ed.), La grotte préhistorique de Kitsos (Attique) (Paris 1981) 233-239.

P. Spitaels, "The Early Helladic Period in Mine No.3 (Theatre Sector)," in Thorikos VIII (Gent 1984) 151-174.

Z. A. Stos-Gale and N. H. Gale, "The Sources of Mycenaean Silver and Lead," JFA 9(1982) 467-485.

Z. A. Stos-Gale, N. H. Gale, and N. Annetts, "Lead Isotope Data from the Isotrace Laboratory, Oxford: Archaeometry Data Base 3, Ores from the Aegean, Part 1," Archaeometry 38(1996) 381-390.

Z. A. Stos-Gale, N. H. Gale, and U. Zwicker, "The Copper Trade in the South East Mediterranean Region: Preliminary Scientific Evidence," RDAC (1986) 122-144.

Z. A. Stos-Gale and C. F. McDonald, "Sources of Metals and Trade in the Bronze Age Aegean," in N. H. Gale (ed.), Bronze Age Trade in the Mediterranean (Jonsered 1991) 249-287.

R. Torrence, Production and Exchange of Stone Tools: Prehistoric Obsidian in the Aegean (Cambridge 1986).

M. Waelkens, "Tool Marks and Mining Techniques in Mine Nr. 3," in Thorikos IX (Gent 1990) 114-143.

P. Warren, "Lapis Lacedaemonius," in J. M. Sanders (ed.), PHILOLAKON: Lakonian Studies in Honour of Hector Catling (London 1992) 285-296.

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Physical Anthropology of Human Remains and Palaeodemography

M. J. Alden, Bronze Age Population Fluctuations in the Argolid from the Evidence of Mycenaean Tombs (Göteborg 1981).

J. L. Angel, “Early Helladic Skulls from Aghios Kosmas,” in G. E. Mylonas (ed.), Aghios Kosmas. An Early Bronze Age Settlement and Cemetery in Attica (Princeton 1959) 167-178.

 J. L. Angel, "Human Skeletons from Grave Circles at Mycenae," in G. E. Mylonas, O Taphikos Kyklos ton Mykenon (Athens 1973) 379-397.

J. L. Angel, Lerna II: The People (Princeton 1971).

R. Arnott, “Healing and Medicine in the Aegean Bronze Age,” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 89(1996) 265-270.

R. Arnott, "Surgical Practice in the Prehistoric Aegean," Medizinhistorisches Journal 32(1997) 249-278.

R. Arnott, "War Wounds and their Treatment in the Aegean Bronze Age," in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 499-506.

R. Arnott, “Healing Cult in Minoan Crete,” in P. P. Betancourt, V. Karageorghis, R. Laffineur, and W.-D. Niemeier (eds.), MELETEMATA: Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His 65th Year [Aegaeum 20] (Liège/Austin 1999) 1-6.

R. Arnott, “Before Machaon and Podalirius: Minoan and Mycenaean Healers,” Cretan Studies 7(2002) 1-19.

R. Arnott and E. Stuckey, “Finding the Hydra: The Search for Malaria in the Prehistoric Aegean,” in K. P. Foster and R. Laffineur (eds.), METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 24] (Liège/Austin 2003) 209-215.

M. Becker, "Human Skeletal Remains from Kato Zakro," AJA 79(1975) 271-276.

S. C. Bisel, "The Human Skeletal Remains," in W. A. McDonald and N. C. Wilkie (eds.),
Excavations at Nichoria in Southwest Greece II: The Bronze Age Occupation (Minneapolis 1992) 345-358.

S. C. Bisel and J. L. Angel, "Health and Nutrition in Mycenaean Greece: A Study in Human Skeletal Remains," in N. C. Wilkie and W. D. E. Coulson (eds.), Contributions to Aegean Archaeology: Studies in Honor of William A. McDonald (Minneapolis 1985) 197-210.

T. A. Brown, K. A. Brown, C. E. Flaherty, L. M. Little, and A. J. N. W. Prag, "DNA Analysis of Bones from Grave Circle B at Mycenae: a First Report," BSA 95(2000) 115-119.

K. A. Calnan, The Health Status of Bronze Age Greek Women (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cincinnati 1992).

D. C. Cook, "Skeletal Evidence for Nutrition in Mesolithic and Neolithic Greece: A View from Franchthi Cave," in  S. Vaughan and W. Coulson (eds.), Paleodiet in the Aegean (Oxford 2000) 99-104.

J. Driessen, "The Archaeology of Aegean Warfare," in R. Laffineur (ed.), POLEMOS. Le contexte guerrier en Égée à l'Âge du Bronze [Aegaeum 19] (Liège/Austin 1999) 11-20.

M. Fountoulakis, "To anthropologiko yliko tes Manikas Chalkidas," in A. Sampson,
Manika: Mia protoelladkie pole sten Chalkida (Chalkis 1985) 393-458.

M. Fountoulakis, "Some Unusual Burial Practices in the Early Helladic Necropolis of Manika," in R. Laffineur (ed.), THANATOS: Les coutûmes funéraires en Égée à l'Age du Bronze [Aegaeum 1] (Liège 1987) 29-33.

P. Halstead, "The Bronze Age Demography of Crete and Greece - A Note," BSA 72(1977) 107-111.

A. Ingvarsson-Sundström, Children Lost and Found: A Bioarchaeological Study of Middle Helladic Children in Asine with a Comparison to Lerna (Ph.D. dissertation, Uppsala University 2003). [http://publications.uu.se/uu/fulltext/nbn_se_uu_diva-3289.pdf]

F. Mallegni, "I gruppi umani dell'età del Bronzo in Grecia (antico e medio Elladico): tentativo di sintesi antropologica," in C. G. Doumas and V. La Rosa (eds.), E Poliochne kai e Proïme Epoche tou Chalkou sto Boreio Aigaio (Athens 1997) 443-449.

P. J. P. McGeorge, "A Crime in the Late Minoan III Period," Archaiologia 11(1984) 12-16 [in Greek].

P. J. P. McGeorge, "Opérations chirurgicales sur les crânes minoens," Septième Rencontre Internationale de l'Archéologie et d'Histoire d'Antibes (1986)        .

P. J. P. McGeorge, "Nea stoicheia yia to meso oro zoes ste minoïke Krete," Kretike Estia 4:1(1987) 9-15.

P. J. P. McGeorge, "Biosocial Evolution in Bronze Age Crete," in Eilapine: Tomos timetikos yia ton Kathegete Nikolao Platona (Athens 1987) 407-416.

P. J. P. McGeorge, "Health and Diet in Minoan Times," in R. E. Jones and H. W. Catling (eds.), New Aspects of Archaeological Science in Greece (Athens 1988) 47-54.

P. J. P. McGeorge, "A Comparative Study of the Mean Life Expectation of the Minoans," in Pepragmena tou ST' Diethnous Archaiologikou Synedriou A1 (Chania 1990) 419-428.

T. McGeorge, "Oi anthropoi tes Pylonas," in H periphereia tou mykenaïkou kosmou [A' Diethnes Diepistemoniko Symposio, Lamia, 25-29 Septembriou 1994] (Lamia 1999) 301-302.

T. McGeorge, “Anthropological Approach to the Pylona Tombs: The Skeletal Remains,” in E. Karantzali, The Mycenaean Cemetery at Pylona on Rhodes [BAR International Series 988] (Oxford 2001) 82-99.

J. H. Musgrave and S. P. Evans, "By Strangers Honor'd: A Statistical Study of Ancient Crania from Crete, Mainland Grece, Cyprus, Israel and Egypt," Journal of Mediterranean Anthropology and Archaeology 1(1981) 50-107.

J. H. Musgrave, R. A. H. Neave, A. J. N. W. Prag, "The Priest and Priestess from Archanes-Anemospilia: Reconstructing Minoan Faces," BSA 89(1994) 89-100.

J. H. Musgrave, R. A. H. Neave, and A. J. N. W. Prag, "Seven Faces from Grave Circle B at Mycenae," BSA 90(1995) 107-136.

A. Nafplioti, Population Bio-cultural History in the South Aegean during the Bronze Age (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southampton 2007).

G. Nordquist and A. Ingvarsson-Sundström, “Live Hard, Die Young: Middle and Early Late Helladic Mortuary Remains of Children from the Argolid in Social Context,” in A. Dakouri-Hild and S. Sherratt (eds.), AUTHOCHTHON: Papers Presented to O. T. P. K. Dickinson on the Occasion of His Retirement [BAR International Series 1432] (Oxford 2005) 156-174.

A. Papathanasiou, A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Neolithic Alepotrypa Cave, Greece [BAR International Series 961] (Oxford 2001).

Z. Parras, The Biological Affinities of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age: A Regional Dental Non-metric Approach [BAR International S1305] (Oxford 2004).

M. R. Popham and J. H. Musgrave, "The Late Helladic IIIC Intramural Burials at Lefkandi, Euboea," BSA 86(1991) 273-296.

J. Prag and R. Neave, Making Faces: Using Forensic and Archaeological Evidence (College Station 1997).

T. D. Price, J. H. Burton, and R. A. Bentley, “The Characterization of Biologically Available Strontium Isotope Ratios for the Study of Prehistoric Migration,” Archaeometry 44(2002) 117-135.

C. Renfrew, “Who Were the Minoans? Towards a Population History of Crete,” Cretan Studies 5(1996) 1-27.

C. Renfrew and K. Boyle (eds.), Archaeogenetics: DNA and the Population Prehistory of Europe (Cambridge 2000).

F. R. Riley, The Role of the Traditional Mediterranean Diet in the Development of Minoan Crete: Archaeological, Nutritional and Biochemical Evidence [BAR International Series 810] (Oxford 1999).

K. Schaller, "Methodische Grundlagen der Interpretation von bronzezeitlichen Körperzeichen in der Ägäis und im östlichen Mittelmeerraum," in F. Blakolmer (ed.), Österreichische Forschungen zur ägäischen Bronzezeit 1998 (Vienna 2000) 27-48.

S. K. Smith, "Skeletal and Dental Evidence for Social Status in Late Bronze Age Athens," in S. Vaughan and W. Coulson (eds.), Paleodiet in the Aegean (Oxford 2000) 105-113.

S. Triandaphyllou, "Prehistoric Cemetery Populations from Northern Greece: A Breath of Life for the Skeletal Remains,"  in  K. Branigan (ed.), Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age [Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology 1] (Sheffield 1998) 150-164.

S. Triantaphyllou, A Bioarchaeological Approach to Prehistoric Cemetery Populations from Central and Western Greek Macedonia [BAR International Series 976] (Oxford 2001).

S. Triantaphyllou, “A Bioarchaeological Approach to Bronze Age Cemetery Populations from Western and Central Greek Macedonia,” in K. P. Foster and R. Laffineur (eds.), METRON: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age [Aegaeum 24] (Liège/Austin 2003) 217-222.

Y. Tzedakis and H. Martlew (eds.), Minoans and Mycenaeans: Flavours of their Time (Athens 1999).

S. M. Wall, J. H. Musgrave, and P. M. Warren, "Human Bones from a Late Minoan IB House at Knossos," BSA 81(1986) 333-388.

N. I. Xirotiris, "The Indo-Europeans in Greece: An Anthropological Approach," JIES 8(1980) 201-210.


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