Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables ix

List of Color Plates xxii

Acknowledgments xxv

Introduction 1

Part I The Landscape and Aegean Prehistory 9

1 The Dynamic Land 11

2 Hunter-Gatherers: The Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic in Greece 28

3 Early Farming Communities: Neolithic Greece 46

4 Complex Cultures of the Early Bronze Age 83

5 The Middle to Early Late Bronze Age on Crete: The Minoan Civilization 123

6 The Middle to Early Late Bronze Age on the Cyclades and the Mainland 155

7 The Mature Late Bronze Age on the Mainland and in the Wider Aegean: The Mycenaean Civilization 181

Part II The Archaeology of Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Greece in its Longer-term Context 207

8 The Greek Early Iron Age and the Concept of a “Dark Age” 209

9 The Archaeology of the Archaic Era: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life 234

10 The Built Environment, Symbolic Material Culture, and Society in Archaic Greece 252

11 The Archaeology of Classical Greece: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life 265

12 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Classical Greece 285

13 The Archaeology of Greece in Hellenistic to Early Roman Imperial Times: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life 310

14 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Hellenistic and Early Roman Greece 337

15 The Archaeology of Greece from Middle Roman Imperial Times to Late Antiquity: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life 351

16 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Middle to Late Roman Greece 369

Part III The Archaeology of Medieval and post-Medieval Greece in its Historical Context 379

17 The Archaeology of Byzantine Greece: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life 381

18 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in the Byzantine Aegean 402

19 The Archaeology of Frankish-Crusader Society in Greece 416

20 The Archaeology of Ottoman and Venetian Greece: Population, Settlement Dynamics, and Socio-economic Developments 436

21 Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Ottoman and Venetian Greece 459

22 The Archaeology of Early Modern Greece 478

Index 498

About the Author

John Bintliff studied Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge where he received his PhD in the landscape archaeology of prehistoric Greece. He has taught at Bradford and Durham Universities and is currently at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and has been co-director of the Boeotia Project in Central Greece since 1978. His interests include the long-term archaeology of Greece and the Mediterranean, landscape archaeology and regional field survey, and archaeological theory. He has published 18 books, including Mycenaean Geography (1977), Palaeoclimates, Palaeoenvironments (1982), European Social Evolution (1984), The Annales School and Archaeology (1991), Europe Between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (1995), Structure and Contingency (1999), The Future of Archaeological Field Survey in Europe (2000), A Companion to Archaeology (2004), Testing the Hinterland (2007), Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece (2009).

Reviews

Long-listed for the 2012 John D. Criticos Prize However, in general, this book is a marvel. (European Journal of Archaeology, 1 January 2014) In sum, it is clear that with the extensive range ofevidence carefully collected and well-analyzed in this volume, itwill, as its author hopes, contribute to a wider awarenessof the rich history of this beautiful country in every century ofits remarkable past. (Bryn Mawr ClassicalReview, 1 November 2013) For others, however, The complete archaeology of Greeceisa valuable source of information, drawing a broad canvas, and, mostsignificantly, exposing important questions concerning each period. . Bintliff s book is a generous reciprocation of GreekPhiloxenia, a distillation of his long experience of Greekarchaeology in the field, this theoretical positions andmethodological tools, reaching out further than to the people ofGreece alone." (Antiquity, 1 January 2013) Named CHOICE Outstanding Title for 2012 Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. (Choice, 1 November 2012) Bintliff s newest contribution provides anambitious panorama of Greek archaeology ... Bintliff s bookdoes more than any other major survey of Greek history orarchaeology to bring the rural economy into the larger narrative oflater Greek history. (The New Archaeology of theMediterranean World, 1 September 2012) By doing that he has delivered a brilliant survey ofGreek archaeology and a remarkably succinct and comprehensivevolume a must read for anyone interested in the archaeologyof Greece. (The Anglo-Hellenic Review, 1October 2012) It doesn t get much more comprehensive thanthis. (Corinthianmatters.com, 2 May 2012)