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Mary Blomberg and Göran Henriksson:

2016. The discovery of Minoan astronomy and its debt to Robin Hägg. Journal of Prehistoric Religion 25, 64-77.

2014. Minoan astronomy. In Handbook of archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy. C. L. N. Ruggles (ed.), Springer, New York, 1431-1441.

2008. Crossing geographical borders from Minoan Crete. Trade and production in premonetary Greece. Proceedings of the 7th, 8th and 9th International workshops, Athens 1997-1999. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology and Literature, Pocket-book 173. C. Gillis and B. Sjöberg (eds), Sävedalen, 191-210.

2007a. Orientations of the Minoan palace at Phaistos in Crete. Ancient watching of cosmic space and observation of astronomical phenomena. Proceedings of the international conference on archaeoastronomy, SEAC 14th 2006, 6-10 April, 2006, Rhodes, Greece. Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 6, 185-192.

2007b. The function of the Minoan oval house at Chamaizi. Archaeology and Ethnography. Papers from the annual meeting of SEAC (European society for Astronomy in Culture) held in Kecskemét in Hungary in 2004. Emília Pásztor (ed.), British Archaeological Reports International Series 1647, 15-18.

2006. Minoan orientations in context. Proceedings of the 9th Cretological congress, Elounda (Crete), 1-7 October 2001, vol. A4. E. Tabakaki and A. Kaloutsakis (eds.), Heraklion, 319-331.

2005a. Orientations of the late Bronze Age villa complex at Vathypetro in Crete. Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry 5, 51-61.

2005b. Some problems in Minoan archaeoastronomy. Cosmic Catastrophies: a collection of articles. Proceedings of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC) 2002. M. Ktiva, I.Pustylnik, and L. Vesik (eds.), Tartu, 15-22.

2005c. Elements of Greek astronomy and religion in Minoan Crete. Conversations across time and space: selected papers from the fifth Oxford International Conference at Santa Fe, 1996. Current Studies in Archaeoastronomy. J. W. Fountain and R. M Sinclair (eds), Carolina Academic Press, Durham NC, 371-392.

2003a. Literary and archaeoastronomical evidence for the origins of the Hellenic calendar in the Aegean Bronze Age. Ad Astra per Astera et per Ludum: European Archaeoastronomy and the Orientation of Monuments in the Mediterranean Basin. Papers from Session I.13, held at the European Association of Archaeologists Eighth Annual Meeting in Thessaloniki 2002. A.-A. Maravelia (ed.), British Archaeological Reports International Series 1154, 53-70.

2003b. The Minoan peak sanctuary on Pyrgos and its context. Calendars, symbols, and orientations: legacies of astronomy in culture. Proceedings of the 9th meeting of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture, Stockholm, Sweden, 27-30 August 2001. Uppsala Astronomical Observatory Report No. 59, Uppsala University Press,
M. Blomberg, P. E. Blomberg and G. Henriksson (eds.). Uppsala, 127-134.

2001a. Differences in Minoan and Mycenaean orientations in Crete. Astronomy, Cosmology and Landscape. Proceedings of the SEAC 98 meeting, Dublin, Ireland, September 1998. C. Ruggles, Frank Prendergast and Tom Ray (eds), Bognor Regis 72-91.

2001b. Archaeoastronomy: new trends in the field, with methods and results from studies in Minoan Crete. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 247, 609-619.

2000. Further evidence for the Minoan origins of the Greek calendars. Proceedings of the 8th Cretological congress, Heraklion (Crete), Greece, 9-14 September 1996. A. Karetsou et al (eds.), Heraklion, 109-128.

1999. Evidence for the Minoan origins of stellar navigation in the Aegean. Actes de la Vème conférence de la SEAC, Gdańsk de la SEAC, Gdansk, 5-8 septembre 1997. Światowit supplement series H: Anthropology II. A. Le Beuf and M. Ziólkowski (eds), Warsaw, 69-81.

1996. Minos Enneoros: Archaeoastronomical light on the priestly role of the king in Crete. Religion and power in the ancient Greek world. Proceedings of the Uppsala symposium 1993. (=Boreas. Uppsala Studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilizations 24). P. Hellström and B. Alroth (eds), Uppsala, 27-39.

Göran Henriksson and Mary Blomberg:

2018. The results of the Uppsala project on Minoan astronomy. Proceedings of the 11th Cretological congress, Rethymno (Crete), 21-27 October 2011, vol. A1.1.
Eirene Tavilaki (ed.), Rethymno, 153-171.

2015. Orientation of the villas at Tylissos on Crete and their relationships to the Minoan calendar. In Stars and Stones: voyages in archaeoastronomy and cultural astronomy. Proceedings of the SEAC 2011 Conference, Évora, Portugal, 5-9 September 2011. F. Pimenta, N. Ribeiro, F. Silva, N. Campion, A. Joaquinito, L. Tirapicos (eds), British Archaeological Reports International Series 2720, 80-83.

2016. The elite at Knossos as custodians of the calendar. In Astronomy and Power: How worlds are structured. Proceedings of the SEAC 2010 Conference. M. A. Rappenglück, B. Rappenglück, N. Campion, F. Silva (eds), British Archaeological Reports International Series 2794, 143-148.

2013. The archaeoastronomical results of three Bronze Age buildings at Agia Triada, Crete. Ancient cosmologies and modern prophets. Proceedings of the 20th conference of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture. Anthropological Notebooks 19, supplement. Ivan Sprajc and Peter Pehani (eds), Slovene Anthropological Society, Ljubljana, 177-185.

2011a. Archaeoastronomical investigation of the peak sanctuary on Modi (Siteia). Proceedings of the 10th Cretological congress, Chania (Crete), 1-8 October 2006, vol. A2. M. Andreadaki-Vlazaki and E. Papadopoulou (eds), Chania, 399-414.

2011b. The evidence from Knossos on the Minoan calendar. Mediterranean Archaeology & Archaeometry 11, 59-68.

2009. Solar Orientations of Bronze Age Shrines in Gournia, Crete. Cosmology Across Cultures. Proceedings of a workshop held at Parque de las Ciencias, Granada, Spain, 8-12 September 2008. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 409, 430-435.

2008. Orientations at the Minoan peak sanctuary on Philioremos near Gonies (Maleviziou), Crete. Astronomy and Cosmology in Folk Traditions and Cultural Heritage. Archaeologia BALTICA 10. Klaipeda, 125-130.

2000. New arguments for the Minoan origin of the stellar positions in Aratos’ Phainomena. Astronomy and cultural diversity. Proceedings of the International Conference «Oxford VI and SEAC 99». La Laguna, 21-29 June 1999. C. Esteban and J. A. Belmonte (eds), Tenerife: Organismo autónomo de Museos del Cabildo, 303-310.

1997-1998. Petsophas and the summer solstice. Opuscula Atheniensia 22-23, 147-151.

1996. Evidence for Minoan astronomical observations from the peak sanctuaries on Petsophas and Traostalos. Opuscula Atheniensia 21, 99-114.

Mary Blomberg, Göran Henriksson and Maria Papathanassiou:

2002. The calendaric relationship between the Minoan peak sanctuary on Juktas and the palace at Knossos. Astronomy of ancient Societies. Proceedings of the Conference “Astronomy of Ancient Civilization” of the European society for Astronomy (SEAC) associated with the Joint European and National Astronomical Meeting (JENAM)), Moscow May 23-27, 2000. T. M. Potyomkina and V. N. Obridko (eds.), Moscow, 81-92.

Peter E. Blomberg:

2013. Malady or vanity: a Minoan Peak Sanctuary figurine. Ancient cosmologies and modern prophets. Proceedings of the 20th conference of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture. Anthropological Notebooks 19, supplement. Ivan Sprajc and Peter Pehani (eds), Slovene Anthropological Society, Ljubljana, 121-128.

2009. Were there astronomical rituals at the Minoan Peak Sanctuaries? Cosmology Across Cultures. Proceedings of a workshop held at Parque de las Ciencias, Granada, Spain, 8-12 September 2008. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series 409, 436-441.

2007a. On the origins of the modern star map. Ancient watching of cosmic space and observation of astronomical phenomena. Proceedings of the international conference on archaeoastronomy, SEAC 14th 2006 6-10 April, 2006, Rhodes, Greece. Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry 6, 193-200.

2007b. How did the constellation of the Bear receive its name. Archaeoastronomy in Archaeology and Ethnography. Papers from the annual meeting of SEAC (European society for Astronomy in Culture) held in Kecskemét in Hungary in 2004). Emília Pásztor (ed.), British Archaeological Reports International Series 1647, 129-132.

2006. A new interpretation of the figurines from Petsophas and Traostalos. Proceedings of the 9th Cretological congress, Elounda (Crete), 1-7 October 2001, vol. A4.
E. Tabakak and A. Kaloutsakis(eds.), Heraklion, 333-347.

2005. Did Boötes drive a wagon with oxen on the Minoan star map? Cosmic Catastrophies: a collection of articles. Proceedings of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC) 2002. M. Ktiva, I. Pustylnik, and L. Vesik (eds.), Tartu, 23-26.

2003a. The early Hellenic sky map reconstructed from archaeoastronomical and textual studies. Ad Astra per Astera et per Ludum: European Archaeoastronomy and the Orientation of Monuments in the Mediterranean Basin. Papers from Session I.13, held at the European Association of Archaeologists Eighth Annual Meeting in Thessaloniki 2002. A.-A. Maravelia (ed.), British Archaeological Reports International Series 1154, 71-76.

2003b. The northernmost constellations in early Greek tradition. Calendars, symbols, and orientations: legacies of astronomy in culture. Proceedings of the 9th meeting of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture, 27-30 August 2001. Uppsala Astronomical Observatory Report no. 59. M. Blomberg, P. E. Blomberg and G. Henriksson (eds), Uppsala University Press, Uppsala, 67-71.

2002. An Attempt to reconstruct the Minoan star map. Astronomy of ancient Societies. Proceedings of the Conference “Astronomy of Ancient Civilization” of the European society for Astronomy (SEAC) associated with the Joint European and National Astronomical Meeting (JENAM)), Moscow May 23-27, 2000. T. M. Potyomkina and
V.N. Obridko(eds), Moscow, 93-99.

2000. An Astronomical Interpretation of Finds from Minoan Crete. Astronomy and Cultural Diversity. Proceedings of the International Conference Oxford VI and SEAC 99,
La Laguna, 21-29 June 1999. C. Estaban and J. A. Belmonte (eds), Tenerife: Organismo autónomo de Museos del Cabildo, 311-318.

Mary Blomberg:

1992. The meaning of χɛλιδών in Hesiod. Opuscula Atheniensia 19, 49-57. (Top)

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