Winner of the 2006 SAA Book Award The Bronze Age represents an age of unprecedented
social transformations in Europe. In a significant departure, Kristiansen and Larsson argue …

In this book, Thomas F. Tartaron presents a new and original reassessment of the maritime
world of the Mycenaean Greeks of the Late Bronze Age. By all accounts a seafaring people …

A. Bernard Knapp presents a new island archaeology and island history of Bronze Age and
early Iron Age Cyprus, set in its Mediterranean context. Drawing out tensions between …

Clear and direct in style, and with more than eighty photographs, maps and plans, Early
Greek States Beyond the Polis is a widely relevant study of Greek history, archaeology and …

This article surveys archaeological work of the last decade on the Greek Bronze Age, part of
the broader discipline known as Aegean prehistory. Naturally, the literature is vast, so I focus …

The study of feasting on the Greek mainland during the Middle and Late Bronze Age
provides insights into the nature of Mycenaean society. Grave goods demonstrate changes …

Feasting plays a central role in the Homeric epics. The elements of Homeric feasting-values,
practices, vocabulary, and equipment-offer interesting comparisons to the archaeological …

Linear B tablets and sealings from Thebes, Pylos, and Knossos monitor preparations for
communal sacrifice and feasting held at palatial centers and in outlying districts. In this …

Women in Mycenaean Greece is the first book-length study of women in the Linear B tablets
from Mycenaean Greece and the only to collect and compile all the references to women in …

Community Identity and Archaeology explores the concept of community identity and its
application in archaeology, using the modern Turkish sites of Aphrodisias and Beycesultan …