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1. The Geological Background and Palaeolithic Greece
2. Colonization and the Origins of Sedentarism: Mesolithic Problems
3. Early Agricultural Communities: Neolithic Greece
4. Women, Matriarchy and Mother Goddesses
5. Early Bronze Age and the Origins of Civilization
6. The Evolution of a Complex Society: The Protopalatial Period in Crete
7. Questions of Statehood: The Neopalatial period in Crete
8. Buying into a Good Thing: Minoan Expansion in the Aegean
9. Secondary State Formation: The Origins of the Mycenaeans
10. Feasting and Drinking in Mycenaean Society
11. Peer Polity States: Mycenaean Palace Society
12. Systems Collapse: The End of the Palace Society
13. Recession and the Return to Village and Hamlet Communities
READINGS (Bold are Required Reading, Blue are on Reserve in Carpenter, * to consult for discussion)1. The Geological Background and Palaeolithic Greece [Sept 3, 5, 7]
Rutter: CHRONOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT, LESSON 1 Timeline
* Higgins, Michael D. and Reynold Higgins, A Geological Companion to Greece and the Aegean. Cornell 1996.
Jacobsen, Thomas W. 1976. "17,000 Years of Greek Prehistory." Scientific American (1976): 76-86.
Runnels, Curtis. 1995. "Review of Aegean Prehistory IV: The Stone Age of Greece from the Palaeolithic to the Advent of the Neolithic." AJA 99, (1995): 699-728.
* Roebroeks, W. and T. van Kolfschoten 1984, The Earliest Occupation of Europe: A Short Chronology, Antiquity 68, (1984): 489-503.
2. Colonization and the Origins of Sedentarism: Mesolithic to Neolithic
[Sept 10]
Selected sites: Franchthi, Sidari (Kerkyra), Nea Nikomedia, Sesklo, Argissa, Corinth, Nemea, Knossos.
Van Andel, Tjeerd H. and J.C. Shackleton. 1982. "Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Coastlines of Greece and the Aegean." JFA 9, (1982): 445-454.
Broodbank, Cyprian, and Thomas F. Strasser. 1991. "Migrant Farmers and the Neolithic Colonization of Crete." Antiquity 65, (1991): 233-245.
* Cherry, J.F. 1981. "Pattern and Process in the Earliest Colonisation of the Mediterranean Islands." PPS 47, (1981):.41-68. Update in Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 1990.
Demoule, Jean-Paul, and Catherine Perlès. 1993. "The Greek Neolithic: A New Review." Journal of World Prehistory 7, (1993): 355-416. Highly recommended for its thoughtful and up-to-date summary.
Rodden, Robert J. 1965. "An Early Neolithic Village in Greece." Scientific American (1965): 83-92.
3. Early Agricultural Communities: Neolithic Greece [Sept 12, 14, 17]
Papathanasopoulos, George. 1996. Neolithic Culture in Greece. Athens. Look through this book. It has many up-to-date essays, plans and pictures.
*Andreou, Stelios, Michael Fotiadis, and Kostas Kotsakis. 1996. "The Neolithic and Bronze Age of Northern Greece." AJA 100, (1996): 537-597.
*Catherine Perles "Systems of Exchange and Organization of Production in Neolithic Greece", Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 5, (1992): 115-162.
Questions to consider with the reading:
5. Early Bronze Age and the
Origins of Civilization [Sept 24, 26, 28]
Rutter: Lesson 3, 4, 7, 8Timeline
Sites: Chalandriani and Kastri (Syros), Grotta and Zas (Naxos), Lerna, Ayia Irini (Keos), Kolonna (Aigina), Ayios Kosmas, Korakou, Akovitiko, Troy, Thermi (Lesbos), Poliochni (Lemnos), Liman Tepe (Turkey)
Cyprian Broodbank, 1989. "The Longboat and Society in the Cyclades in the Keros-Syros Culture, AJA 85, (1989), 318-337.
SEE NOW: Cyprian Broodbank, An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades. Cambridge 2001.
Davis, Jack L. 1992. Review of Aegean Prehistory I: The Islands of the Aegean. AJA 96. p. 699-756.
Whitelaw, Todd M. "The settlement at Fournou Koriphi Myrtos and aspects of Early Minoan social organisation", IN Krzyszkowska, O., and L. Nixon, eds. Minoan Society. Proceedings of the Cambridge Colloquium 1981. Bristol 1983, pp. 333-363.
6. The Evolution of a Complex Society: The Early Minoan and Protopalatial Period in Crete [Oct 1, 3, 5, 8]
Sites: Koumasa, Platanos, Apesokari, Myrtos, Vasiliki, Gournia,
Archanes,
Mallia, Phaistos
Whitelaw, Todd M. "The settlement at Fournou Koriphi Myrtos and aspects of Early Minoan social organisation", IN Krzyszkowska, O., and L. Nixon, eds. Minoan Society. Proceedings of the Cambridge Colloquium 1981. Bristol 1983, pp. 333-363.
*Watrous, L. Vance, "Review of Aegean Prehistory: Crete from Earliest Prehistory through the Palatial Period", AJA 98, (1994): 695-753
* Peatfield, A.A.D. "Minoan Peak Sanctuaries:
History and Society", Opuscula Atheniensis 18, (1990): 117-132.
7. Questions of Statehood: The Neopalatial period in Crete [Oct 10, 12, 22, 24]
Sites: Knossos, Khania, Mallia, Phaistos, Ayia Triada, Kommos, Zakros, Palaikastro, Gournia, Mochlos, Nirou Khani, Amnisos, Tylissos, Galatas, Kannia.
* Cherry, John F. "Polities and palaces: some problems in Minoan state formation", in Renfrew, Colin and John Cherry. 1986. Peer Polity Interaction and Socio-political Change. New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 19-45.
J. McEnroe, "A Typology of Minoan Neopalatial Houses", AJA 86, (1982): 3-19.
Watrous, L.V. 1984 "Ayia Triada: A New Perspective on the Minoan Villa," AJA 88, (1984): 123-134.
Chadwick, John. 1987. Linear A. In Linear B and Related Scripts. Los Angeles. 1987, 44-61.
Paper 1: DUE Wednesday, October 17, 5:00 p.m.
FALL BREAK!!! from end of last class on Friday, Oct 12 through 21
8. Buying into a Good Thing: The Neopalatial Period and Minoan Expansion in the Aegean
[Oct 26, 29, 31; Nov 2, 5, 7]
Sites: Akrotiri (Thera), Phylakopi (Melos), Ayia Irini (Keos)
Davis, Jack L. 1979. "Minos and Dexithea: Crete and the Cyclades in the Later Bronze Age." Davis, Jack L. and John F. Cherry, eds., Papers in Cycladic Prehistory. UCLA Monograph 4. Los Angeles: Institute of Archaeology. Pp. 143-157.
* Schofield, E. 1982 "The Western Cyclades and Crete: A 'Special Relationship,'" OJA 1, (1982): 9-25.
Paper 2: DUE Friday, November 9, 5:00 p.m.
9. Secondary State Formation: The Origins of the Mycenaeans [Nov 9, 12, 14]
* Rutter, J. B. "Review of Aegean Prehistory, II: Rutter, Jeremy B. The Prepalatial Bronze Age of the Southern and Central Greek Mainland." AJA 97, (1993): 745-797.
* Graziadio, G. "The Process of Social Stratification at Mycenae in the Shaft Grave Period," AJA 95, (1991):403-440.
Wright, James C. "From Chief to King in Mycenaean
Greece",
The Role of the Ruler in the Prehistoric Aegean. Aegaeum
11. Paul Rehak, ed. Liège 1995. Pp. 63-80.
10. Feasting and Drinking in Mycenaean Society [Nov 16]
Dietler, Michael. "Driven to Drink: The Role of Drinking in the Political Economy and the Case of Early Iron Age France",Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 9, (1990): 358-72.
Wright, James. "Empty Cups and Empty Jugs:
The Social Role of Wine in Minoan and Mycenaean Society" in The Origins
and Ancient History of Wine, P. McGovern, S. Fleming and S. Katz, eds
. New York: Gordon and Breach, 1995. Pp. 287-309.
11. Peer Polity States: Mycenaean Palace Society [Nov. 19, 21, 26, 28]
* Shelmerdine, Cynthia W. "Review of Aegean Prehistory, VI: The Palatial Bronze Age of the Southern and Central Greek Mainland. AJA 101, (1997): 537-585.
Paper 3: DUE Friday, November 30, 5:00 p.m.
12. Systems Collapse: The End of the Palace Society [Nov 30; Dec. 3, 5, 7]
* Drews, Robert. The End of the Bronze Age: changes in warfare and the catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 1992.
* Sandars, Nancy K. The Sea Peoples : warriors of the ancient Mediterranean, 1250-1150 B.C. London: Thames and Hudson. 1978.
* Ward, William A. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky,
eds. The Crisis years : the 12th century B.C. : from beyond the Danube
to the Tigris. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt. 1992.
13. Recession and the Return to Village and Hamlet Communities
[Dec. 10, 12, 14]
Rutter LESSON 29
* Reading as in Week 12.
Paper 4: DUE Friday, December 7, 5:00 p.m.
The last day of classes is Friday, December 14 which we will hold for discussion and review.
ON THIS DAY ALL FINAL WRITTEN WORK WILL BE DUE.
THERE WILL BE NO EXTENSIONS.