Middle Helladic Argolid Project Publications Online

Shifting Identities: Social Change and Cultural Interaction in the Middle Helladic Argolid, 2000 - 1500 BC

This international, multidisciplinary project has received a Grant for Innovative Research by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The project is also financed by the University of Groningen.

The aim of the project is to interpret the important social, political and cultural changes that took place in the southern Greek mainland during the Middle Helladic period and the transition to the Late Helladic (approx. 2000 - 1500 BC). The task is undertaken by means of an integrated analysis of settlement, funerary, skeletal and iconographic data from the Argolid, northeastern Peloponnese.

The central question of the project, the redefinition of personal, ethnic and cultural identities within wider processes of socio-political change, has a wider relevance beyond the Aegean and occupies a central position in current theoretical debates in archaeology.

Scanned-in articles

Here we include:

• Articles on the MH period published by members of the team, and by scholars collaborating with the project. We also include unpublished work (e.g. unpublished dissertations) as well as forthcoming articles which have not appeared as yet.
• Articles that have appeared in the periodical Hydra (published by Gullög Nordquist and Carol Zerner between 1985 and 1994).

The articles are listed below in alphabetical order.
Please note: this part of the site is still under construction, and articles are continuously being added to.
To read these articles you need Adobe Acrobat Reader.
It can be downloaded for free here

	Name	Year	Pages	Size
B
	Betancourt, P.P. (1985). The Middle Minoan Pottery at Kommos, Hydra 1, 3-10.	1985	6	1,3 mb
	Blasingham, A.C. (1992). Local versus Long-Distance Trade in the Pre-Palatial Mesara Crete: Problems of Raw Materials for Seal-Making, Hydra 10.	1992	9	1,0 mb
	Blitzer, H. (1991). Middle to Late Helladic Chipped Stone Implements of the Southwest Peloponnese, Greece, Hydra 9	1991	73	8,2 mb
C
	Crielaard, J.P. (1992). The Social Organization of Euboean Trade with the Eastern Mediterranean during the 10th to the 8th Centuries B.C., Hydra 10.	1992	7	1,2 mb
D
	Dickinson, O.T.P.K. (1984). Cretan Contacts with the mainland during the Period of the Shaft Graves, In R. Hägg, N. Marinatos (eds). The Minoan Thalassocracy. Myth and Reality. Stockholm 1984, 115-117.	1984	3	0,6 mb
	Dickinson, O.T.P.K. (1989). "The origins of Mycenaean civilisation" revisited, In R. Laffineur (ed). Aegaeum 3 - Transition. Le monde Egeen du Bronze Moyen au Bronze Recent, 131-136.	1989	6	0,6 mb
	Dietz, S., G. Nordquist, C. Zerner (1988). Concerning the Classification of Late Middle Helladic Wares in the Argolid, Hydra 5, 15-16.	1988	2	0,3 mb
F
	Fischer, P. (1988). Classification of Pottery by Micro Colour Analysis: A pilot study, Hydra 5, 36-41.	1988	6	1,0 mb
G
	Gillis, C. (1988). Conical Cups and Abstract Problems, Hydra 5, 32-35.	1988	4	1,6 mb
	Gillis, C. (1991). Tin in the Aegean Bronze Age, Hydra 8, 1-30.	1991	30	1,2 mb
	Gillis, C. (1992). How I Discovered Gold and Solved the Alchemists' Dream or Tin-Covered Vessels: Part II, Hydra 10.	1992	4	0,8 mb
	Graziadio, G. (1985). Grave Circle B: Some Problems Dealing with its Chronology, Hydra 1, 38-58.	1985	21	4,4 mb
	Grimanis, A. and V. Kilikoglou (1985). Chemical Analysis by NAA, Hydra 1, 63-65.	1985	3	0,5 mb
I
	Ingvarsson-Sundström, A. (2002). Small parts of society—skeletal remains of children at Asine. In Wells, B. (Ed). New Research on Old Material from Asine and Berbati, 49-56.	2002	8	0,6 mb
	Ingvarsson-Sundström, A. 2003: Children Lost and Found. A bioarchaeological study of Middle Helladic children in Asine with a comparison to Lerna, with an Appendix by Helena Soomer, Uppsala 2003	2003	224	1,3 mb
K
	Konsola, D.N. (1985). Preliminary Remarks on the Middle Helladic Pottery from Thebes, Hydra 1, 11-18.	1985	8	1,7 mb
	Koutsouflakis, G. (1990). The Mechanism of Trade in the Early Bronze Age, Hydra 7.	1990	13	1,5 mb
M
	Maran, J. (1986). Uberlegungen zur Abkunft der FH III-zeitlichen ritz- und einstichverzierten Keramik, Hydra 2, 1-28.	1986	32	5,8 mb
	Marketou B. (1990). Asomatos and Serraglio. Early Bronze Age Production and Interconnections, Hydra 7.	1990	8	1 mb
N
	Nordquist, G.C. (1979). Dead Society, A study of the intramural Cemetery at Lerna. M.A. Dissertation, 1-77.	1979	77	6,8 mb
	Nordquist, G.C. (1985). Floor Deposits on the Barbouna Slope at Asine, Hydra 1, 19-33.	1985	17	4,0 mb
	Nordquist, G.C. (1987). Asine, Terrace III: The Excavations of 1926. A Preliminary Report, Hydra 3, 5-14.	1987	10	0,5 mb
	Nordquist, G.C. (1987). Asine--A Middle Helladic Society, Hydra 3, 15-25.	1987	11	0,5 mb
	Nordquist, G.C. (1988). With Axel Persson in Asine and Dendra, Hydra 5, 2-14.	1988	13	3,7 mb
	Nordquist, G.C. (1988). The Middle Helladic Pottery from the Southern Argolid, Hydra 5, 17-31.	1988	15	2,8 mb
	Nordquist, G.C. (1990). Middle Helladic Burial Rites: Some Speculations. In R. Hägg, G.C. Nordquist (Eds). Celebrations of death and divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid: proceedings of the 6th international symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 11-13 june 1988, Stockholm, 1990, Åström, 35-43.	1990	9	3,5 mb
	Nordquist, G.C. (1991), New Middle Helladic Finds from Asine, Hydra 8, 31-34.	1991	4	0,1 mb
	Nordquist, G.C. (1995). Who made the pots? Production in the Middle Helladic Society. In R. Laftineur and W. Niemeier (Eds). Politeia. Society and state in the Aegean Bronze Age. Part I, 201-211.	1995	10	3,2 mb
	Nordquist, G.C. (1999). Pairing of pots in the Middle Helladic Period. Meletemata II, 569-573	1999	5	0,3 mb
	Nordquist, G.C. (2000). Pots, prestige and people. Symbolic action in Middle Helladic burials. Opuscula Atheniensia 27, 2002, 119-135.	2000	27	5,3 mb
	Nordquist, G.C. (2002). Intra- and extramural, single and collective, burials in the Middle and Late Helladic periods. In Wells, B. (Ed). New Research on Old Material from Asine and Berbati, 23-29.	2002	7	0,6 mb
	Nordquist, G. & A. Ingvarsson-Sundström (2005). Mortuary Remains of Middle and Early Late Helladic Children from the Argolid in Social Context. A. Dakouri-HIld & S. Sherratt (eds.) 2005. AUTOCHTHON. Studies presented to O.T.P.K. Dickinson on the occasion of his retirement. BAR International Series 1432.	2005	6	1,3 mb
P
	Papagiannopoulou, A. (1985). Analysis of Melian and Theran Pottery: A Preliminary Report, Hydra 1, 59-62.	1985	4	1,0 mb
	Philippa-Touchais, A. (2002). Aperçu des céramiques mésohelladiques à décor peint de l'Aspis d'Argos. I. La céramique à peinture mate. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 126, 1-40.	2002	40	7,6 mb
	Philippa-Touchais, A. (2003). Aperçu des céramiques mésohelladiques à décor peint de l'Aspis d'Argos. II. La céramique à peinture lustrée. Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 127, 1-47.	2003	47	17,9 mb
R
	Rutter, J.B. (1985). Middle Helladic Pottery from Tsoungiza (Archaia Nemea): A Brief Report, Hydra 1, 34-37.	1985	4	1,6 mb
	Rutter, J.B. (1986). Some Comments on the Nature and Significance of the Ceramic Transition from Early Helladic III to Middle Helladic, Hydra 2, 29-57.	1986	29	5,4 mb
	Rutter, J.B. (1989). A Ceramic Definition of Late Helladic I from Tsoungiza, Hydra 6, 1-19.	1989	19	0,8 mb
S
	Schallin A.-L. (1989). The Cycladic Settlement Settings and Patterns in the Late Bronze Age, Hydra 6, 20-34.	1989	15	0,7 mb
	Schallin, A. -L. (1992). Various Types of Exchange and Trade in the Cyclades during the Late Bronze Age, Hydra 10.	1992	4	0,6 mb
	Sjöberg B. (1990). The Mycenaean Economy: Theoretical Frameworks, Hydra 7.	1990	17	1,6 mb
	Sjöberg B. (1992). Problems Concerning the Indentification of Storage Areas in Mycenaean Palaces, Hydra 10.	1992	6	0,6 mb
T
	Touchais, G. (1989). Le passage du Bronze Moyen au Bronze Récent en Grèce continentale: état de la question, In R. Laffineur (ed). Aegaeum 3 - Transition. Le monde Egeen du Bronze Moyen au Bronze Recent, 113-121.	1989	9	0,8 mb
	Touchais, G. (1996). Argos et Mycènes: voisines ou rivales? In Piérart, M. and G. Touchais (eds), Argos. Une ville grecque de 6000 ans, 13-20.	1996	8	0,8 mb
	Touchais, G. (1998). Argos à L'Époque Mésohelladique: un Habitat ou des Habitats, In Pariente, A. et G. Touchais (eds). Argos et l'Argolide, Topographie et Urbanisme, 71-84.	1998	8	0,8 mb
	Tournavitou I. (1990). Aspects of Trade and Production in Mycenaean Greece, Hydra 7, 20-34.	1990	11	1,6 mb
	Triantaphyllou, S. (n.d.). Burial Variability in the Argolid during the MH and Shaft Grave Period, Unpublished MA dissertation, University of Thessaloniki, 1-42.	(n.d.)	42	0,1 mb
V
	Voutsaki, S. (1992). Value and Exchange in the Pre-Monetary Societies: Anthropological Debates and Aegean Archaeology, Hydra 10.	1992	12	1,4 mb
	Voutsaki, S. (1993). Society and Culture in the Mycenaean World: An Analysis of Mortuary Practices in the Argolid, Thessaly and the Dodecanese. Unpublished PhD diss., University of Cambridge.	1995
	Text		171	1 mb
	Bibliography		30	0,1 mb
	Figures		69	10 mb
	Voutsaki, S. (1995) Social and political processes in the Mycenaean Argolid: the evidence from the mortuary practices. In Laffineur, R. & Niemeier, W.D. (eds.) POLITEIA, 55-65.	1995	21	5,6 mb
	Voutsaki, S. (1997) The creation of value and prestige in the Late Bronze Age Aegean. Journal of European Archaeology 5:2, 34-52.	1997	19	0,8 mb
	Voutsaki, S. (1998) Mortuary evidence, symbolic meanings and social change: a comparison between Messenia and the Argolid in the Mycenaean period. In Branigan, K. (ed.) Cemetery and society in the Aegean Bronze Age, 41-58.	1998	18	0,9 mb
	Voutsaki, S. (1999) Mortuary display, prestige and identity in the Shaft Grave era. In Kilian, I. (ed.) Eliten in der Bronzezeit, 103-117.	1999	17	0,9 mb
	Voutsaki, S. (2001) The rise of Mycenae: political interrelations and archaeological evidence. Bulletin of Institute of Classical Studies, 45: 183-4.	2001	2	0,06 mb
	Voutsaki, S., S. Triantaphyllou, S. Kouidou-Andreou, L. Kovatsi & E. Milka (2003). Lerna, 2000 - 1500 BC: a pilot analysis of funerary, skeletal and bio-molecular data. Pharos Volume XI. 75-80	2003	6	0,2 mb
	Voutsaki, S. (2004). Social change and cultural interaction in the Middle Helladic Argolid: A new project based at the GIA. Tijdschrift voor Mediterrane Archeologie 31, 37-41	2004	5	0,6 mb
	Voutsaki, S. (2004). The Argolid, 2000-1500 BC: A new project based at the GIA. Palaeo-aktueel 14/15, 89-91. 2004.	In print	4	0,03 mb
	Voutsaki, S. (2004). Age and gender in the southern Greek mainland, 2000 - 1500 BC. Ethnographisch-Archäologische Zeitung 45 .	2004	18	0,8 mb
	Voutsaki, S. (2005). Social and cultural change in the Middle Helladic period: presentation of a new project. In Dakouri-Hild, A. & Sherratt, S. (eds.) AUTOCHTHON. Papers presented to O.T.P.K. Dickinson on the occasion of his retirement. BAR IS 1432, Oxford, 134-143.	2004	10	0,9 mb
	Voutsaki, S., Kouidou-Andreou, S., Kovatsi, L., Triantaphyllou, S. & Milka, E. (n.d.). Lerna, 2000 - 1500 BC: The integration of bio-molecular, osteological and archaeological data. Proceedings of the Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology, Institute for Geo- and Bioarchaeology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 18-20 March 2004.	n.d.	12	0,06 mb
W
	Webb, T. (1992). The Early Helladic Shipwreck at Dokos, Hydra 10.	1992	3	0,4 mb
	Wedde, M. (1990). The "Ring of Minos" and beyond: Thoughts on Directional Determination in Aegean Bronze Age Ship Iconography, Hydra 7, 1-24.	1990	24	2,4 mb
	Wells, B. (1990). Trade Routes in North-East Argolis, Hydra 7.	1990	5	0,5 mb
	Whittaker, H. (1992). Contact Between the Aegean and the Levant in the Late Bronze Age, Hydra 10.	1992	8	1,3 mb
Y
	Younger, J. (1991). Seals? from Middle Helladic Greece, Hydra 8, 35-58.	1991	21	0,7 mb
Z
	Zerner, C. (1986). Middle Helladic and Late Helladic I Pottery from Lerna, Hydra 2, 58-74.	1986	17	3,7 mb
	Zerner, C. (1988). Middle Helladic and Late Helladic I Pottery from Lerna: Part II, Shapes, Hydra 4, 1-52.	1988	52	3,3 mb
	Zerner, C. (1990). Ceramics and Ceremony: Pottery and Burials from Lerna in the Middle and Early Bronze Ages. In R. Hägg and G.C. Nordquist (eds). Celebrations of death and divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid: proceedings of the 6th International Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 11-13 June 1988. Stockholm, 1990, Åström, 23-34.	1990	12	1,7 mb
	Zerner, C. (1993). New Perspectives on trade in the Middle and Early Late Helladic Periods on the Mainland. In C. Zerner, P. Zerner, J. Winder (eds). Wace and Blegen. Pottery as ecvidence for trade in the Aegean Bronze Age 1939-1989. Proceedings of the international conference held at The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, December 2-3, 1989. Amsterdam, 1993. J.C. Gieben, 39-56	1993	18	1,6 mb