Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; ABBREVIATIONS; PREFACE, ERIC H. CLINE; SECTION I: BACKGROUND AND DEFINITIONS; 1. HISTORY OF RESEARCH, JAMES D. MUHLY; 2. CHRONOLOGY AND TERMINOLOGY, STURT W. MANNING; SECTION II: CHRONOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY; 3. NEOLITHIC ANTECEDENTS, PETER TOMKINS; EARLY BRONZE AGE; 4. MAINLAND GREECE, JEANNETTE FORSEN; 5. CRETE, PETER TOMKINS AND ILSE SCHOEP; 6. CYCLADES, COLIN RENFREW; MIDDLE BRONZE AGE; 7. MAINLAND GREECE, SOFIA VOUTSAKI; 8. CRETE, ILSE SCHOEP; 9. CYCLADES, ROBIN L. N. BARBER; LATE BRONZE AGE; 10. MAINLAND GREECE, KIM SHELTON; 11. CRETE, ERIK HALLAGER; 12. CYCLADES, ROBIN L. N. BARBER; 13. END OF THE BRONZE AGE, REINHARD JUNG; SECTION III: THEMATIC TOPICS - ART AND ARCHITECTURE; 14. MINOAN ARCHITECTURE, LOUISE HITCHCOCK; 15. MYCENAEAN ARCHITECTURE, LOUISE HITCHCOCK; 16. FIGURINES, IOULIA TZONOU-HERBST; 17. FRESCOES, ANNE P. CHAPIN; SOCIETY AND CULTURE; 18. STATE AND SOCIETY, DIMITRI NAKASSIS, MICHAEL L. GALATY, AND WILLIAM A. PARKINSON; 19. MINOAN RELIGION, SUSAN LUPACK; 20. MYCENAEAN RELIGION, SUSAN LUPACK; 21. DEATH AND BURIAL, CHRISTOPHER MEE; 22. TRADE, BRYAN E. BURNS; 23. WEAPONS AND WARFARE, IOANNIS GEORGANAS; SEALS AND WRITING/ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEMS; 24. MINOAN SEALS AND SEALINGS, JUDITH WEINGARTEN; 25. MYCENAEAN SEALS AND SEALINGS, JOHN G. YOUNGER; 26. CRETAN HIEROGLYPHIC AND LINEAR A, HELENA TOMAS; 27. LINEAR B, THOMAS G. PALAIMA; 28. CYPRO-MINOAN, NICOLLE HIRSCHFELD; MATERIAL CRAFTS; 29. MATERIALS AND INDUSTRIES, DONIERT G. EVELY; 30. MINOAN POTTERY, BIRGITTA HALLAGER; 31. MYCENAEAN POTTERY, JEREMY B. RUTTER; 32. TEXTILES, BRENDAN BURKE; 33. JEWELLERY, ROBERT LAFFINEUR; EVENTS; 34. ERUPTION OF THERA/SANTORINI, STURT W. MANNING; 35. TROJAN WAR, TREVOR BRYCE; 36. THE COLLAPSE AT THE END OF THE BRONZE AGE, OLIVER DICKINSON; SECTION IV: SPECIFIC SITES AND REGIONS - CRETE; 37. AYIA TRIADA VINCENZO LA ROSA; 38. KATO ZAKROS LEFTERIS PLATON; 39. KHANIA (KYDONIA), MARIA ANDREADAKI-VLAZAKI; 40. KNOSSOS, COLIN MACDONALD; 41. KOMMOS, JOSEPH AND MARIA SHAW; 42. MALIA, JAN DRIESSEN; 43. PALAIKASTRO, J. ALEXANDER MACGILLIVRAY AND L. HUGH SACKETT; 44. PHAISTOS, VINCENZO LA ROSA; MAINLAND GREECE; 45. ARGOLID, SOFIA VOUTSAKI; 46. BOEOTIA, ANASTASIA DAKOURI-HILD; 47. CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PELOPONNESE, WILLIAM G. CAVANAGH; 48. NORTHERN AEGEAN, STELIOS ANDREOU; 49. LERNA, MARTHA WIENCKE; 50. MYCENAE, ELIZABETH FRENCH; 51. PYLOS, JACK L. DAVIS; 52. THEBES, ANASTASIA DAKOURI-HILD; 53. THORIKOS, ROBERT LAFFINEUR; 54. TIRYNS, JOSEPH MARAN; CYCLADES, DODECANESE, AND SARONIC ISLANDS; 55. AEGINA KOLONNA, WALTER GAUSS ; 56. AKROTIRI, CHRISTOS DOUMAS; 57. DODECANESE, TOULA MARKETOU; 58. RHODES, TOULA MARKETOU; WIDER MEDITERRANEAN; 59. CAPE GELIDONYA SHIPWRECK, GEORGE F. BASS; 60. CYPRUS, LOUISE STEEL; 61. EGYPT, JACKE PHILLIPS; 62. LEVANT, ASSAF YASUR-LANDAU; 63. TROY, PETER JABLONKA; 64. ULUBURUN SHIPWRECK, CEMAL PULAK; 65. WESTERN ANATOLIA, ALAN M. GREAVES; 66. WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN, LUCIA VAGNETTI

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