38 papers on Aegean Bronze Age pottery in honour of Jeremy Rutter. They range from specific site reports, to technical reports, and issues of chronology, to analysis of the social and religious functions of particular vessel types, and studies of trade and cultural contacts.

A collection of papers presented to Jeremy Rutter to mark his 65th Birthday. 1) The LH IIIA2-IIIB Transition: The Gurob and Saqqara Evidence Reassessed (David A. Aston); 2) Daskalio (Vathy), Kalymnos: A Late Bronze I Sacred Cave in the East Aegean (Mario Benzi); 3) The Diagonal Line Class Juglets: New Evidence from Hagios Charalambos (Philip P. Betancourt); 4) In Search of the Upper Story of LM I House A.1 at Papadiokampos: An Integrated Architectural and Ceramic Perspective (T.M. Brogan, Ch. Sofianou, and J.E. Morison); 5) Minding the Gaps in Early Helladic Laconia (William Cavanagh and Christopher Mee); 6) Subminoan: A Neglected Phase of the Cretan Pottery Sequence (Anna Lucia D''Agata); 7) Spoons to Fill the Cups (Jeannette Forsen); 8) The Stirrup Jar: Does the West House Evidence Help or Complicate the Problems? (Elizabeth French); 9) The Middle Helladic Large Building Complex at Kolonna. A Preliminary View (Walter GauSS, Michael Lindblom, and Rudolfine Smetana); 10) Cretan Perfumed Oils at Enkomi (Cyprus) in the 13th Century B.C.' (Giampaolo Graziadio); 11) Early Helladic Vases from Zygouries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Cultural Ambassadors of an Early Age (Sean Hemingway); 12) Palm and Altar (Stefan Hiler); 13) The Cypriot Ceramic Cargo of the Uluburun Shipwreck (N. Hirschfeld); 14) Mycenaean Vending Cups in Syria? Thoughts about the Unpainted Mycenaean Pottery from Tell Kazel (Reinhard Jung); 15) Preliminary Remarks about the Pottery from the So-called Grande Frana at Phaistos (V. La Rosa); 16) The Chronology of the Lerna Shaft Graves (Michael Lindblom and Sturt W. Manning); 17) Our Storerooms Are Full. Impressed Pithoi from Late Bronze/Early Iron Age East Lokris and Phokis and their Socio-economic Significance (Bart'omiej Lis and t'pan Ruckl); 18) Contested Pasts-The Society of the 12th c. B.C.E. Argolid and the Memory of the Mycenaean Palatial Period (Joseph Maran); 19) An Update on the Provenance by Neutron Activation Analysis of Near Eastern Mycenaean IIIC Pottery Groups with Particular Reference to Cyprus (P. A. Mountjoy); 20) Once More with Feeling: Jeremy Rutter''s Plea for the Abandonment of the Term Submycenaean Revisited (John K. Papadopoulos, Brian N. Damiata, and John M. Marston); 21) Fragments of the Pottery Equipment of an Early Middle Helladic Household from Aspis, Argos (A. Philipa -Touchais and G. Touchais); 22) Picking out Pots in Patterns: Feasting in Early Helladic Greece (Daniel J. Pullen); Early Helladic Peak Sanctuaries in Attica? (Florian Ruppenstein); 23) Vox Clamantis in Campo: Further Thoughts on Ceramics and Site Survey (Robert Schon); 24) A Decorated Minoan Pyxis from House X at Kommos (Maria C. Shaw); 25) The ''Friendly Krater'' from Iklaina (Cynthia W. Shelmerdine); 26) Learning to Learn from Bronze Age Pots: A Perspective on Forty Years of Aegean Ceramic Studies in the Work of J.B. Rutter (Susan Sherratt); 27) A Unique Late Minoan III Ring-shaped Vase from the Myrsini Aspropilia Cemetery (R. Angus K. Smith); 28) The Cyclades and Pylos: An Early Bronze Age Stone Pyxis from Ali Chodza (Sharon R. Stocker and Jack L. Davia); 29) An Aegean Glance at Megiddo (Philip W. Stockhamer); 30) Mycenaean Tablewares and the Curious Careers of the Angular Kylix and Shallow Angular Basin (Patrick M. Thomas); 31) The Phaistos Palace and the Kamares Cave: A Special Relationship (A. Van de Moortel); 32) Seats of Power? Making the Most of Miniatures-The Role of Terracotta Throne Models in Disseminating Mycenaean Religious Ideology (Melisa Vetters); 33) The Late Helladic IIIA2 Pottery from Mitrou and its Implications for the Chronology of the Mycenaean Mainland (Salvatore Vitale); 34) "Ceremonial Lerna" (Martha Heath Wiencke); 35) Conical Cups: From Mystery to History (Malcolm H. Wiener); 36) Interpreting Quantitative Analyses of Mycenaean Pottery (James C. Wright and Mary K. Dabney); 37) Our Cups Overfloweth: "Kabri Goblets" and Canaanite Feasts in the Middle Bronze Age Levant (Assaf Yas ur-Landau, Eric H. Cline, and Inbal Samet).

Beyond Thalassocracies aims to evaluate and rethink the manner in which archaeologists approach, understand, and analyze the various processes associated with culture change connected to interregional contact, using as a test case the world of the Aegean during the Late Bronze Age (c. 1600–1100 BC). The 14 chapters compare and contrast various aspects of the phenomena of Minoanisation and Mycenaeanisation, both of which share the basic underlying defining feature of material culture change in communities around the Aegean. This change was driven by trends manifesting themselves in the dominant palatial communities of each period of the Bronze Age. Over the past decade, our understanding of how these processes developed and functioned has changed considerably. Whereas current discussions on Minoanisation have already been informed by more recent theoretical trends, especially in material culture studies and post‐colonial theory, the process of Mycenaeanisation is still very much conceptualized along traditional lines of explanation. Since these phenomena occurred in chronological sequence, it makes sense that any reappraisal of their nature and significance should target those regions of the Aegean basin that were affected by both processes, highlighting their similarities and differences. Thus, in the present volume we focus on the southern and eastern Aegean, in particular the Cyclades, Dodecanese, and the north-eastern Aegean islands.

This volume brings together papers that discuss social change. The main focus is on the Early Helladic III to Late Helladic I period in southern Greece, but also touches upon the surrounding islands. This specific timeframe enables us to consider how mainland societies recovered from a ‘crisis’ and how they eventually developed into the differentiated, culturally receptive and competitive social formations of the early Mycenaean period. Material changes are highlighted in the various papers, ranging from pottery and burials to domestic architecture and settlement structures, followed by discussions of how these changes relate to social change. A variety of factors is thereby considered including demographic changes, reciprocal relations and sumptuary behavior, household organization and kin structure, age and gender divisions, internal tensions, connectivity and mobility. As such, this volume is of interest to both Aegean prehistorians as to scholars interested in social and material change. The volume consists of eight papers, preceded by an introduction and concluded by a response. The introduction gives an overview of the development of the debate on the explanation of social change in Aegean prehistory. The response places the volume in a broader context of the EH III-LH I period and the broader discussion on social change.

This book provides the most complete overview of the Attica region from the Neolithic to the end of the Late Bronze Age. It paves the way for a new understanding of Attica in the Early Iron Age and indirectly throws new light on the origins of what will later become the polis of the Athenians.

This publication presents the archaeological evidence from two associated Minoan sites situated at Apesokari in the Mesara Plain of South-Central Crete, Tholos Tomb A and the neighboring free-standing domestic complex on Vigla Hill. It thoroughly reconstructs the natural and social landscape of this Cretan community from the late Prepalatial to the early Neopalatial periods through its interdisciplinary character; this includes photogrammetric two- and three-dimensional models of the architectural remains, viewshed analysis of both monuments and of the earlier Tholos Tomb B, as well as A-DNA and stable isotope analysis of the bones. The study of the burial dataset provides insights into the social construction of collective memory and identity by the burying social group, whereas the habitational deposits from the building on Vigla hill establish the longevity and function of the site as a node of the southern Mesara communication and exchange networks.

This volume brings together twenty-six papers to mark Susan Sherratt's 65th birthday - a collection that seeks to reflect both her broad range of interests and her ever-questioning approach to uncovering the realities of life in Europe and the Mediterranean in later prehistory.