Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-318) and index.

Introduction. Across the great divide ; Chronology -- 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 -- The architecture of power. Introduction ; Neolithic Dimini ; Early Bronze Age Lerna ; Neopalatial Knossos ; Mycenaean Pylos ; Early Iron Age Lefkandi ; Classical Athens ; Hellenistic Macedonia ; Conclusions -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Warfare. Introduction ; The Early Bronze Age Aegean ; Pax Minoica ; Well-greaved Achaeans ; Well-built Mycenae ; Warfare in transition ; Hoplite warfare ; Naval warfare ; Fortifications ; The rise of Macedon ; Conclusions -- 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 -- 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.