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List of Figures.
List of Maps.
List of Tables.
Acknowledgments.
List of Abbreviations.
1 Introduction.
Across the Great Divide.
Chronology.
2 Settlement and Settlements.
Introduction.
Neolithic Greece.
Early Bronze Age.
Palatial Crete.
The Cyclades.
Mycenaean Greece.
The Early Iron Age.
The Eighth Century.
The Archaic Period.
The Classical Period.
The Hellenistic Period.
Conclusions.
3 The Architecture of Power.
Introduction.
Neolithic Dimini.
Early Bronze Age Lerna.
Neopalatial Knossos.
Mycenaean Pylos.
Early Iron Age Lefkandi.
Classical Athens.
Hellenistic Macedonia.
Conclusions.
4 Residential Space.
Introduction.
The Neolithic Period.
The Early Bronze Age.
Middle Bronze Age Greece.
Neopalatial Crete.
The Cyclades.
Mycenaean Greece.
The Early Iron Age.
The Archaic and Classical Periods.
The Later Fourth Century and the Hellenistic Period.
Conclusions.
5 The Countryside.
Introduction.
The First Farmers.
The Secondary Products Revolution and Mediterranean Polyculture Revisited.
Royal Estates.
Early Iron Age Pastoralists?
Down on the Farm?
Works and Days.
Conclusions.

6 Technology and Production.
Pottery.
Neolithic pottery.
Early Bronze Age pottery.
Minoan and Mycenaean pottery.
Early Iron Age pottery.
Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic pottery.
Pottery production at Athens and Corinth.
Metallurgy.
The Neolithic and Early Bronze Age.
Second-millennium metalwork.
The age of iron.
The silver mines at Lavrion.
Conclusions.
7 Trade and Colonization.
Introduction.
Neolithic.
Early Bronze Age.
The Thalassocracy of Minos.
Mycenaeans Overseas?
Into the Iron Age.
Magna Graecia.
France and Spain.
The Black Sea.
The Eastern Mediterranean and Egypt.
Ships and Cargoes.
Conclusions.
8 Warfare.
Introduction.
The Early Bronze Age Aegean.
Pax Minoica.
Well-greaved Achaeans.
Well-built Mycenae.
Warfare in Transition.
Hoplite Warfare.
Naval Warfare.
Fortifi cations.
The Rise of Macedon.
Conclusions.
9 Death and Burial.
Introduction.
Neolithic Greece.
Early Bronze Age Greece.
Middle Bronze Age Greece.
Mycenaean Greece.
Early Iron Age Greece.
The Archaic Period.
The Classical Period.
Conclusions.

10 Religion.
Introduction.
Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Figurines.
Cretan Rural Sanctuaries.
Religion in the Cretan Palaces and Towns.
Cretan Converts?
Mycenaean Religion.
Religion after the Palaces.
Early Iron Age.
The Eighth Century.
The Archaic Period.
The Fifth Century.
The Fourth Century and the Hellenistic Period.
Conclusions.
Timeline.
Glossary.
References.
Index.

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