Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contributors
Abbreviations
PrefaceEric H. Cline:
Section I: Background and Definitions
1: James D. Muhly: History of Research
2: Sturt W. Manning: Chronology and Terminology
Section II: Chronology and Geography
3: Peter Tomkins: Neolithic Antecedents
Early Bronze Age
4: Jeannette Forsén: Mainland Greece
5: Peter Tomkins and Ilse Schoep: Crete
6: Colin Renfrew: Cyclades
Middle Bronze Age
7: Sofia Voutsaki: Mainland Greece
8: Ilse Schoep: Crete
9: Robin L. N. Barber: Cyclades
Late Bronze Age
10: Kim Shelton: Mainland Greece
11: Erik Hallager: Crete
12: Robin L. N. Barber: Cyclades
13: Reinhard Jung: End of the Bronze Age
Section III: Thematic Topics
Art and Architecture
14: Louise Hitchcock: Minoan Architecture
15: Louise Hitchcock: Mycenaean Architecture
16: Ioulia Tzonou-Herbst: Figurines
17: Anne P. Chapin: Frescoes
Society and Culture
18: Dimitri Nakassis, Michael L. Galaty, and William A. Parkinson: State and Society
19: Susan Lupack: Minoan Religion
20: Susan Lupack: Mycenaean Religion
21: Christopher Mee: Death and Burial
22: Bryan E. Burns: Trade
23: Ioannis Georganas: Weapons and Warfare
Seals and Writing/Administrative Systems
24: Judith Weingarten: Minoan Seals and Sealings
25: John G. Younger: Mycenaean Seals and Sealings
26: Helena Tomas: Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A
27: Thomas G. Palaima: Linear B
28: Nicolle Hirschfeld: Cypro-Minoan
Material Crafts
29: Doniert G. Evely: Materials and Industries
30: Birgitta Hallager: Minoan Pottery
31: Jeremy B. Rutter: Mycenaean Pottery
32: Brendan Burke: Textiles
33: Robert Laffineur: Jewellery
Events
34: Sturt W. Manning: Eruption of Thera/Santorini
35: Trevor Bryce: Trojan War
36: Oliver Dickinson: The Collapse at the End of the Bronze Age
Section IV: Specific Sites and Regions
Crete
37: Vincenzo La Rosa: Ayia Triada
38: Lefteris Platon: Kato Zakros
39: Kydonia: Khania
40: Colin Macdonald: Knossos
41: Joseph and Maria Shaw: Kommos
42: Jan Driessen: Malia
43: J. Alexander MacGillivray and L. Hugh Sackett: Palaikastro
44: Vincenzo La Rosa: Phaistos
Mainland Greece
45: Sofia Voutsaki: Argolid
46: Anastasia Dakouri-Hild: Boeotia
47: William G. Cavanagh: Central and Southern Peloponnese
48: Stelios Andreou: Northern Aegean
49: Martha Wiencke: Lerna
50: Elizabeth French: Mycenae
51: Jack L. Davis: Pylos
52: Anastasia Dakouri-Hild: Thebes
53: Robert Laffineur: Thorikos
54: Joseph Maran: Tiryns
Cyclades, Dodecanese, and Saronic Islands
55: Walter Gauss: Aegina Kolonna
56: Christos Doumas: Akrotiri
57: Toula Marketou: Dodecanese
58: Toula Marketou: Rhodes
Wider Mediterranean
59: George F. Bass: Cape Gelidonya shipwreck
60: Louise Steel: Cyprus
61: Jacke Phillips: Egypt
62: Assaf Yasur-Landau: Levant
63: Peter Jablonka: Troy
64: Cemal Pulak: Uluburun shipwreck
65: Alan M. Greaves: Western Anatolia
66: Lucia Vagnetti: Western Mediterranean

About the Author

Eric H. Cline is Associate Professor of Classics and Anthropology (Ancient History and Archaeology) and Chair of the Departments of Classical and Semitic Languages and Literatures at The George Washington University.

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