Situated at the disciplinary boundary between prehistory and history, this book presents a
new synthesis of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece, from the rise and fall of …

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 …

In this paper, we argue that the sociopolitical trajectory of Bronze Age of Crete was
characterized by the progressive but intentional manipulation of an enduring collective …

Despite much intensive archaeological fieldwork, several regions of Greece still have not
yielded any evidence for palatial structures. It may be, therefore, that they never gave rise to …

At the end of the XIXth century, Sir Arthur Evans2 launched his quest for writing in pre-
alphabetic Crete and his spade unearthed a completely new civilization. Among the …

For a long time, the emergence of Aegean states was explained in terms of general
evolutionist models based on evidence from a handful of major palatial sites. Recently …

Our understanding of economic structures in prehistoric Crete is largely text-based, and is
therefore limited by the small number and undeciphered status of the Protopalatial and …

Linear B administrative documents of the late second millennium BC from urban Knossos,
Crete, reveal that spatially extensive and centrally monitored sheep flocks and wool …

Although the Mycenaean civilization of the Greek Bronze Age was identified 150 years ago,
its origins remain obscure. Jack L. Davis, codirector of excavations at the Palace of Nestor at …

Ancient Eleon, adjacent to the modern village of Arma in the agricultural plain east of
Thebes, is the most significant settlement site included in the Eastern Boeotia …