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The Crete Fieldcourse

Bibliography

References

This listing is a selective overview of references relating to the field course area and relevant to themes explored in the field. See Field Days for further reading.

Key reading

Nixon, L. (2006) Making a landscape sacred: outlying churches and icon stands in Sphakia. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Rackham, O. and Moody, J. (1997) The making of the Cretan landscape. Manchester: MUP.

Trudgill, P. (2008) In Sfakiá: Passing Time in the Wilds of Crete.  Athens: Lycabettus Press.

Other references

Allbaugh, L.G. (1953) Crete: a case study of an undeveloped area. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Antonis, A. (1998) The orchids of Crete and Karpathos. Heraklion: Alibertis.

Atherden, M.A. and Hall, J.A. (2000) Human impact on vegetation in the White Mountains of Crete since AD 500, Holocene, 9, 2, 183-193.

Clauser, M. (2000) The Flowers of Crete. Florence: Bonechi.

Bartzokas, A., C. J. Lolis, et al. (2003) A study on the intra-annual variation and the spatial distribution of precipitation amount and duration over Greece on a 10 day basis. International Journal of Climatology 23(2): 207-222.

Briasoullis, H. (2003) Crete: Endowed by nature, privileged by geography, threatened by tourism?” Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 11(2&3)

Damer, S. (2004) Signifying Symi: setting and performance on a Greek Island. Ethnography, 5 (2), 203-228.

Damer, S. (1989) Cretan Highlanders: the making of the Sphakiot legend, Centre for Urban and Regional Research, University of Glasgow, 37.

Damer, S. (1988) Legless in Sfakia: drinking and social practice in Western Crete, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 6, 291-310.

Dangasuk, O. G. and K. P. Panetsos (2004) Altitudinal and longitudinal variations in Pinus brutia (Ten.) of Crete Island, Greece: some needle, cone and seed traits under natural habitats. New Forests 27(3): 269-284.

De Bakker, J. (2001) Across Crete, part I, From Khaniá to Herákleion. Amsterdam : Logos Tekstproducties.

Doren, D.M. (1975) Winds of Crete. Athens: Efstathiades Group.

Edwards, A. (1988) Crete. Oxford Clio Press.

Fassoulas, C.G. (2000) Field guide to the geology of Crete. Heraklio: Natural History Museum of Crete.

Gobbi, GP, Barnaba, F, Giorgi, R and Santacasa, A. (2000) Altitude-resolved properties of a Saharan dust event over the Mediterranean, Atmospheric Environment, 34, 29-30.

Grigor, S. (1988) Village on the plateau. Studley: Brewin Books.

Grove, A.T., Moody, J. and Rackham, O. (1991) Stability and change in the Cretan landscape. Cambridge: Corpus Christie College. (Petromarula 1).

Grove, A.T. and Rackham, O. (1993) Threatened landscapes in the Mediterranean: examples form Crete, Landscape and Urban Planning, 24, 279-292.

Grove, A.T. and Rackham, O. (2001) The nature of Mediterranean Europe: an ecological history. London: Yale University Press.

Herzfeld, M. (1999) Of language and land tenure: the transmission of property and information in autonomous Crete, Social Anthropology, 7 (3), 223-237.

Herzfeld M. (1991) A place in history: social and monumental time in a Cretan town. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Herzfeld, M. (1985) Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Hirschon, R. 1985 Territoriality and the home environment in a Greek urban community, Anthropological Quarterly, 55.

Horden, P. and Purcell, N. (2000) The corrupting sea. Oxford: Blackwell.

Ingram, H. (1999) Measuring quality gaps in hotels: the case of Crete, International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Mangement, 11(1) 24-30.

Ivanovas, S. (2001) Where Zeus became a man: with Creatn shepherds. Athens: Efstathiadis Group.

Kazaklis, A. and Karteris, M. (1993) Land use patterns and relationships with abiotic landscape factors in western Crete, Landscape and Urban Planning, 24, 249-257.

Kelletat, D. (1996) Perspectives in Coastal geomorphology of Western Crete, Greece. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie N.F. Suppl.-Bd 102, 1-19.

Kistler, Wolfgang (2001) Photo gallery. Available online at www.wkistler.de.

Kousis, M. (1989) Tourism and the family in a rural Cretan community. Annals of Tourism Research, 16, 318-32.

Lazaridos, G. (1995) Market gardening and women's work in Platanos Greece European Journal of Women's Studies, 2, 441-467.

Legakis, A. and Krypriotakis, Z. (1994) A biogeographical analysis of the island of Crete Greece, Journal of Biogeography, 21, 441-445.

Lyberaki, A. (1996) Greece-EU comparative economic performance at the national and regional levels: why divergence, European Planning Studies, 4(3), 313-33.

McDonald, C. (1993) The lost battle: Crete 1941. London: Macmillan.

Maas, G. and Macklin, M.G. (2002) The impact of recent climate change on flooding and sediment supply within a Mediterranean mountain catchment, Southwestern Crete, Greece, Earth Surface. Processes and  Landforms 27, 1087–1105.

Maas, G.S., Macklin, M.G. and Kirkby, M.J. (1998) Late Pleistocene and Holcene river development in Mediterranean steepland environments, southwest Crete. In G.Benito, V.R.Baker and K.J.Gregory (eds) Palaeohydrology and environmental change. Chichester: Wiley, pp 153-165.

Macklin,M.G., Tooth, S. Brewer,P. Noble,P.L., Duller,G.A.T. (2009) Holocene flooding and river development in a Mediterranean steepland catchment: The Anapodaris Gorge, south central Crete, Greece, Global and Planetary Change, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 17 November 2009.

McCoy, F. W. and G. Heiken (2000) Tsunami generated by the Late Bronze Age eruption of Thera (Santorini), Greece. Pure and Applied Geophysics 157(6-8): 1227-1256.

Monaco, C. and L. Tortorici (2004) Faulting and effects of earthquakes on Minoan archaeological sites in Crete (Greece). Tectonophysics 382(1-2): 103-116.

Myers, J.W and Cadogen, G. (1992) The aerial atlas of ancient Crete. London: Thames and Hudson.

Nemec, W. and Postma, G. (1993) Quaternary alluvial fans in southwestern Crete: sedimentation processes and geomorphic evolution, Spec. Publs Int. Ass. Sediment., 17, 235-276.

Nixon, L. (2001) Seeing voices and changing relationships: film archaeological reporting and the landscape of people in Sphakia, American Journal of Archaeology, 105, 77-97.

Nixon, L. Moody, J. and Rackham, O. (1988) Archaeological Survey in Sphakia, Crete, Echos du monde classique/Classical Views (EMC/CV) 32 n.s. (7): 157-73. Available online at sphakia.classics.ox.ac.uk/emccv1988.html.

Nixon, L. Moody, J., Price, S. and Rackham, O. (1989) Archaeological Survey in Sphakia, Crete, EMC/CV, 33 n.s. (8): 201-15. Available online at sphakia.classics.ox.ac.uk/emccv1989.html.

Nixon, L. Moody, J., Price, S., Rackham, O. and Niniou-Kindeli, V. (1990) Archaeological Survey in Sphakia, Crete, EMC/CV, 34 n.s. (9): 213-20. Available online at sphakia.classics.ox.ac.uk/emccv1990.html.

Nixon, L., Price, S. and Moody, J. (1999) Settlement Patterns in Mediaeval & Post-Mediaeval Sphakia: Issues from the Environmental, Archaeological, & Historical Evidence. Proceedings of the Mediaeval & Post-Mediaeval Greece conference, Corfu, May 1998. Available online at sphakia.classics.ox.ac.uk/bvtpaper.html.

Nixon, L. and Price, S. 1995 The Sphakia Survey (Greece): Methods and Results. Oxford: Sphakia Project.

Papanastasis, V. (1993) Legal status of land tenure and use and its implication for open landscapes of western Crete. Landscape and Urban Planning, 24, 273-277.

Papiomitoglou, V. (2006) Wild flowers of Crete. Athens: Mediterraneo

Pashley, Robert (1837) Travels in Crete. Cambridge.

Petrakos, G.and Saratsis, Y.(2000) Regional inequalities in Greece. Papers In Regional Science,79, 1, 57-74.

Plymakis, A. (n.d.) Sfakia: Imbros Gorge. Chania: Plymakis.

Pope R., Wilkinson K., Skourtsos E., Triantaphyllou M., Ferrier G. (2008) Clarifying stages of alluvial fan evolution along the Sfakian piedmont, southern Crete: New evidence from analysis of post-incisive soils and OSL dating, Geomorphology
Volume 94(1-2),  206-225.

Price, S., Highham, T. Nixon, L.and Moody, J. (2002) Relative sea-level changes in Crete: Reassessment of radiocarbon dates from Sphakia and west Crete, Annual of the British School at Athens 97.

Price, S. and Nixon, L. (2001) The diachronic analysis of pastoralism through comparative variables (with L Nixon), Annual of the British School at Athens, 96, 395-424.

Pyokari, M.(1999) Beach sediments of Crete: texture, composition, roundness, Journal of Coastal Research, 15, 2.

RITTS (2002) Socio-economic definition of the wider environment of Crete region.. Available online at www.ritts-crete.gr/par-crete.htm (For background information on tourism on the island).

Rose, N. (2001) Sustainable Tourism in Crete, Stigmes, Available at stigmes.gr/br/brpages/articles/TOURISM_CRETE.htm.

Ross, J.F.L. (1999) Its all Greece to me. Athens: Athens News.

Rough Guide (2001) Rough guide to Crete. London: Rough Guides.

Sfikos, G. (2000) The wild flowers of Crete. Athens: Efstathiades Group.

Sphakia Project (2000) Sphakia Project Internet Edition Sites Database. Oxford: Sphakia Project.

Spratt, T.A.B. (1865) Travels and researches in Crete. London: John van Voorst.

Terkenli, T. (2005) Human Activity in Landscape Seasonality:The Case of Tourism in Crete, Landscape Research, 30(2), 221-239.

Tzatzanis M. Wrbka T.; Sauberer N. (2003) Landscape and vegetation responses to human impact in sandy coasts of Western Crete, Greece Journal for Nature Conservation, October 2003, 11(3), 187-195(9).

Waugh, E. 1955 Officers and gentlemen. London: Chapman and Hall

Wilson, L. (2009) The High Mountains of Crete. 2nd Ed. Milnthorpe: Cicerone Press.

Vogiatzakis, I. N., G. H. Griffiths, et al. (2003) Environmental factors and vegetation composition, Lefka Ori Massif, Crete, S. Aegean, Global Ecology and Biogeography 12(2): 131-146.

Vogiatzakis, I.N. and Rackham O. (2008) Crete, In Mediterranean Island Landscapes: Natural and Cultural Approaches, Edited by N. Vogiatzakis, G. Pungetti, A. M. Mannion. Berlin: Springer.

W.J. Zachariasse, W.J, van.Hinsbergen, D.J.J. and Fortuin, A.R. (2008) Mass wasting and uplift on Crete and Karpathos during the early Pliocene related to initiation of south Aegean left-lateral, strike-slip tectonics, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 120, 976-993.

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