List of Figures and Tables ix

List of Color Plates xxii

Acknowledgments xxv

Introduction 1

Part I The Landscape and Aegean Prehistory 9

1 The Dynamic Land 11

2 Hunter-Gatherers: The Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic in Greece 28

3 Early Farming Communities: Neolithic Greece 46

4 Complex Cultures of the Early Bronze Age 83

5 The Middle to Early Late Bronze Age on Crete: The Minoan Civilization 123

6 The Middle to Early Late Bronze Age on the Cyclades and the Mainland 155

7 The Mature Late Bronze Age on the Mainland and in the Wider Aegean: The Mycenaean Civilization 181

Part II The Archaeology of Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Greece in its Longer-term Context 207

8 The Greek Early Iron Age and the Concept of a "Dark Age" 209

9 The Archaeology of the Archaic Era: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life 234

10 The Built Environment, Symbolic Material Culture, and Society in Archaic Greece 252

11 The Archaeology of Classical Greece: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life 265

12 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Classical Greece 285

13 The Archaeology of Greece in Hellenistic to Early Roman Imperial Times: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life 310

14 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Hellenistic and Early Roman Greece 337

15 The Archaeology of Greece from Middle Roman Imperial Times to Late Antiquity: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life 351

16 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Middle to Late Roman Greece 369

Part III The Archaeology of Medieval and post-Medieval Greece in its Historical Context 379

17 The Archaeology of Byzantine Greece: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life 381

18 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in the Byzantine Aegean 402

19 The Archaeology of Frankish-Crusader Society in Greece 416

20 The Archaeology of Ottoman and Venetian Greece: Population, Settlement Dynamics, and Socio-economic Developments 436

21 Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Ottoman and Venetian Greece 459

22 The Archaeology of Early Modern Greece 478

Index 498