List of tables and illustrations; Acknowledgments; Citations and Abbreviations; Introduction Jane B. Carter and Carla M. Antonaccio; Part I. The Postpalatial Period, ca. 1200- ca. 1050 BCE: 1. The transformation of the Mycenaean world: late Helladic IIIC and Submycenaean on the Greek mainland Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy and Birgitta Eder; 2. Late Helladic IIIC pottery and its mediterranean connections Jeremy Rutter; 3.

Crete in the twelfth and eleventh centuries BCE Melissa Eaby; 4. Cyprus in the twelfth and eleventh centuries BCE Louise Steel; 5. Iron in iron age Greece (1200-800 BCE) Maria Kostoglou; Part II. The Protogeometric and Geometric Periods, ca. 1050-750 BCE: 6. Protogeometric (ca. 1050-ca. 900 BCE) John K.

Papadopoulos; 7. Cyprus, tenth to seventh centuries BCE Louise Steel; 8. Geometric Greece, ca. 900-700 BCE Alexander Mazarakis Ainian; 9. Interregional relations between the Aegean and Syro-Anatolian worlds during the early first millennium BCE James F. Osborne; 10. Investigating difference: a view of iron age to archaic Crete Saro Wallace; 11. Athens, ca.

1200-600 BCE John K. Papadopoulos; 12. The eastern Aegean in the early iron age: Homeric landscapes from the bronze age to the archaic period Sarah Morris; Part III. Late geometric and after, ca. 750-ca. 650 BCE: 13. Connectivity, mobility, and identity in the early iron age Jan Paul Crielaard; 14. The arts and iconography of late geometric Greece Susan Langdon; 15.

Greeks in Italy Franco de Angelis; 16. The Greeks and Egypt Jennifer Gates-Foster; 17. Corinth and the emergence of monumental stone architecture in Greece Jane B. Carter; Part IV. Afterword: Texts and Memory: 18. Scripts, dialects, and the epic tradition Margalit Finkelberg; 19. Homeric epic in the late eighth century BCE: ideologies of the present and 'memories' of the past Susan Sherratt; Bibliography of volumes cited.