Cross-Craft Interaction in the cross-cultural context of the late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean

Ann Brysbaert, Melissa Vetters

Works cited

Brysbaert, A. 2007. Cross-craft and cross-cultural interactions during the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean Late Bronze Age. In: S. Antoniadou and A. Pace (eds), Mediterranean Crossroads. Athens: Pierides Foundation, pp. 325-359.
Brysbaert, A. 2008. The Power of Technology in the Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean: the Case of the Painted Plaster. Monographs in Mediterranean archaeology 12, London: Equinox.
Brysbaert, A. and V. Perdikatsis 2008. Bronze Age painted plaster from the Greek mainland: a comparative study of its technology by means of XRD analysis and optical microscopy techniques. In: Y. Facorellis,  N. Zacharias, K. Polikreti, T. Vakoulis, Y. Bassiakos, V. Kiriatzi, E. Aloupi (eds), Archaeometry Studies in the Aegean: Reviews and Recent Developments. Proceedings of the 4th HSA Symposium on Archaeometry. BAR International Series 1746. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 421-429.

Brysbaert, A. and M. Vetters 2010. Practicing identity: a crafty ideal? Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 10-2.25-43

Brysbaert, A. 2011a (in press). People and their things. In: J. Petrov and S. Dudley (eds), Material Worlds. Studies in honour of professor Sue Pearce. London: Routledge. (publication date: spring 2011).       

Brysbaert, A. 2011b (in press). Gender display of Greek prehistoric archaeological collections through the concepts of chaîne opératoire and cross-craft interaction. In: M. Skaltsa (ed.), Women in Museums. Reality and Representation. Museums ’08, International Symposium, Thessaloniki, 11-13 April 2008. (publication date: 2011).

Brysbaert, A. (submitted). Technologies and representations within Bronze Age Aegean architecture. In: J. Bennett (ed.), Technologies of Representation in the Aegean and East Mediterranean Bronze Ages. Sheffield Round Table January 2008, Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Cohen, C., Maran, J. and M. Vetters 2010 (in press). An ivory rod with a cuneiform inscription, most probably Ugaritic, from a Final Palatial workshop in the Lower Citadel, Tiryns. Archäologischer Anzeiger 2010.

Dakouri-Hild, A. 2005. Breaking the mould? Production and economy in the Theban state. In: A. Dakouri-Hild and S. Sherratt (eds), Autochthon. Papers presented to O. T. P. K. Dickinson on the occasion of his retirement. BAR International Series 1432. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 207-224.

David, N. and C. Kramer 2001. Ethnoarchaeology in Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Demakopoulou, K. 1974. Μυκηναϊκόν ανακτορικόν εργαστήριον εις Θήβας. ΑρχαιολογικάΑνάλεκταεξΑθηνών 7: 162-173.

Dobres, M.-A. 2000. Technology and Social Agency. Outlining a Practice Framework for Archaeology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

Evely, R.D.G. 1993-2000. Minoan Crafts: Tools and Techniques, an Introduction. 2 vols. Göteborg: P. Åströms Förlag.

Galaty, M.L., and W.A. Parkinson 2007. Introduction: Mycenaean Palaces rethought. In: M.L. Galaty and W.L. Parkinson (eds), Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces II. Revised and expanded second edition. The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, Monograph 60. Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, pp. 1-17.

Jung, R. 2006. ΧΡΟΝΟΛΟΓΙΑ comparata – Vergleichende Chronologie von Südgriechenland und Süditalien von ca. 1700/1600 bis 1000 v. u. Z. Veröffentlichungen der Mykenischen Kommission Band 26, gemeinsam mit SCIEM 2000, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Denkschriften Band 348. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Kilian, K. 1978. Ausgrabungen in Tiryns 1976. Bericht zu den Grabungen. Archäologischer Anzeiger 1978: 449-470.

Kilian, K. 1987. Zur Funktion der mykenischen Residenzen auf dem griechischen Festland. In: R. Hägg and N. Marinatos (eds), The Function of the Minoan Palaces. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute in Athens 1984. Göteborg: P. Åströms Förlag, pp. 21-38.

Kilian, K. 1988a. The emergence of the “wanax” ideology in the palaces, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 7: 291-302.

Kilian, K. 1988b. Mycenaeans up to date. Trends and changes in recent research, In: K.A. Wardle and E. French (eds), Problems in Greek Prehistory, Papers Presented at the Centenary Conference of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, Manchester, April 1986. Bristol:  Bristol Classical Press, pp. 115-152.

Knapp, A.B. and E. Blake 2005. Prehistory in the Mediterranean: the connecting and corrupting sea. In: E. Blake and A.B. Knapp (eds), The Archaeology of Mediterranean Prehistory. Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology. Oxford: Blackwell, pp.1-23.

Leroi-Gourhan, A. 1964. Le Geste et la Parole, vol 1: Technique et Langage; vol 2: la Mémoire et les Rythmes. Paris : Albin Michel.

Maran, J. 2004a. Architektonische Innovation im spätmykenischen Tiryns: Lokale Bauprogramme und fremde Kultureinflüsse. In: A. Kyriatsoulis (ed.), Althellenische Technologie und Technik. Tagung Ohlstadt 21.-23.03.2003. Weilheim: Verein zur Förderung der Aufarbeitung der hellenischen Geschichte, pp. 261-286.

Maran, J. 2004b. The spreading of objects and ideas in the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean: two case examples from the Argolid of the 13th and 12th centuries B.C. Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research 336: 11-30.

Maran, J. 2006a. Mycenaean citadels as performative space. In: J. Maran, C. Juwig, H. Schwengel and U. Thaler (eds.), Constructing Power: Architecture, Ideology and Social Practice. Hamburg: LIT, pp. 75-91.

Maran, J. 2006b. Coming to terms with the past: ideology and power in Late Helladic IIIC. In: S. Deger-Jalkotzy and I.S. Lemos (eds), Ancient Greece: From Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer. Edinburgh Leventis Studies 3. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 123-150.

Maran, J. 2008. Forschungen in der Unterburg von Tiryns 2000-2003, Archäologischer Anzeiger 2008: 35-111.

Maran, J. 2010. Tiryns. In: E.H. Cline (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (ca. 3000 – 1000 BC). Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 722-734.

McGovern, P.E. 1989. Ceramics and craft interaction: a theoretical framework, with prefatory remarks. In: P.E. McGovern, M.D.  Notis and W.D. Kingery (eds), Cross-Craft and Cross-Cultural Interactions in Ceramic. Ceramics and Civilization, IV. Westerville Ohio: American Ceramic Society, pp. 1-11.

Mühlenbruch, T. 2007. The Postpalatial settlement in the Lower Citadel of Tiryns. In: S. Deger-Jalkotzy and M. Zavadil (eds), LH III C Chronology and Synchronisms II – LH III C Middle, Proceedings of the International Workshop held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences at Vienna, October 29th and 30th, 2004. Veröffentlichungen der Mykenischen Kommission 28, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, Denkschriften 362. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, pp. 243-251.

Palaima, T.G. 1995. The nature of the Mycenaean WANAX: non-Indo-European origins and priestly functions, In: P. Rehak (ed.), The Role of the Ruler in the Prehistoric Aegean. Proceedings of a Panel Discussion presented at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, 28 December 1992 With Additions. Aegaeum 11. Liège: Annales d’ archéologie égéenne de l’ Université de Liège and University of Texas-PASP, pp. 119-143.

Papadimitriou, A. 2001. Tiryns: A Guide to Its History and Archaeology. Athens: Hesperos.

Pfaffenberger, B. 1988. Fetishised objects and humanised culture: towards an anthropology of technology. Man n.s., 23: 236-252.

Pfaffenberger, B. 1992. Social anthropology of technology. Annual Review of Anthropology 21: 491-516.

Pfaffenberger, B. 1998. Mining communities, chaînes opératoires and sociotechnical systems. In: A.B. Knapp, V. Pigott and E.W. Herbert (eds), Social Approaches to an Industrial Past. The Archaeology and Anthropology of Mining. London: Routledge, pp. 291-300.

Rahmstorf, L. 2003. Clay spools from Tiryns and other contemporary sites: an indication of foreign influence in LH IIIC? In: N. Kyparissi-Apostolika and M. Papakonstantinou (eds), ΗΠεριφέρειατουΜυκηναϊκούΚόσμου, Β΄ΔιεθνέςΔιεπιστημονικόΣυμπόσιο, 26-30 Σεπτεμβρίου, Λαμία 1999. Athens: Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού, ΙΔ' Ε.Π.Κ.Α., pp. 397-415.

Rahmstorf, L. 2008. Kleinfunde aus Tiryns aus Terrakotta, Stein, Bein und Glas/Fayence vornehmlich aus der Spätbronzezeit, Forschungen und Berichte. Tiryns XVI. Wiesbaden: Reichelt.

Rodenwaldt, G. 1912. Die Fresken des Palastes, Tiryns II. Die Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen des Instituts. Athens: Eleutheroudakis and Barth.

Schiffer, M.B. 2004. Studying technological change: a behavioural perspective. World Archaeology 36-4: 579-85.

Schlanger, N. 1994. Mindful technology: unleashing the chaîne opératoire for an archaeology of mind. In: C. Renfrew and E.B.W. Zubrow (eds), The Ancient Mind. Elements of Cognitive Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 143-151.

Shelton, K. 2004. Open and ready for business: the excavations at the Petsas House and the LH III A2 period at Mycenae, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 47: 181-182.

Shortland, A.J. 2000. Vitreous Material at Amarna. The Production of Glass and Faience in 18th Dynasty Egypt. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 827. Oxford: Archaeopress.

Skibo, J.M. and M.B. Schiffer 2001. Understanding artifact variability and change: behavioural framework. In: M.B. Schiffer (ed.), Anthropological Perspectives on Technology. Amerind Foundation New World Studies, 5. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, pp. 139-50.

Stockhammer, P.W. 2008. Kontinuität und Wandel – Die Keramik der Nachpalastzeit aus der Unterstadt von Tiryns (PhD thesis, online-publication, University Heidelberg 2008).
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/8612/

Symeonoglou, S. 1973. Kadmeia I: Mycenaean Finds from Thebes, Greece. Excavations at 14 Oedipus St. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology 35. Göteborg: P. Åströms Förlag.

Tournavitou, I. 1995. The “Ivory Houses” at Mycenae. Annual of the British School at Athens Suppl. 24. London: British School at Athens.

Back to Table of Content