The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean provides a comprehensive overview of our current understanding of the Bronze Age Aegean (ca. 3000-1000 BC) and describes the most important debates and discussions within the discipline. Presented in four separate sections within the Handbook, the sixty-six commissioned articles cover topics ranging from chronological and geographical to thematic to site-specific. The volume will be indispensable for scholars and advanced students alike.

Acknowledgements ; Contributors ; Abbreviations ; Preface, Eric H. Cline ; Section I: Background and Definitions ; 1. History of Research, James D. Muhly ; 2. Chronology and Terminology, Sturt W. Manning ; Section II: Chronology and Geography ; 3. Neolithic Antecedents, Peter Tomkins ; Early Bronze Age ; 4. Mainland Greece, Jeannette Forsen ; 5. Crete, Peter Tomkins and Ilse Schoep ; 6. Cyclades, Colin Renfrew ; Middle Bronze Age ; 7. Mainland Greece, Sofia Voutsaki ; 8. Crete, Ilse Schoep ; 9. Cyclades, Robin L. N. Barber ; Late Bronze Age ; 10. Mainland Greece, Kim Shelton ; 11. Crete, Erik Hallager ; 12. Cyclades, Robin L. N. Barber ; 13. End of the Bronze Age, Reinhard Jung ; Section III: Thematic Topics - Art and Architecture ; 14. Minoan Architecture, Louise Hitchcock ; 15. Mycenaean Architecture, Louise Hitchcock ; 16. Figurines, Ioulia Tzonou-Herbst ; 17. Frescoes, Anne P. Chapin ; Society and Culture ; 18. State and Society, Dimitri Nakassis, Michael L. Galaty, and William A. Parkinson ; 19. Minoan Religion, Susan Lupack ; 20. Mycenaean Religion, Susan Lupack ; 21. Death and Burial, Christopher Mee ; 22. Trade, Bryan E. Burns ; 23. Weapons and Warfare, Ioannis Georganas ; Seals and Writing/Administrative Systems ; 24. Minoan Seals and Sealings, Judith Weingarten ; 25. Mycenaean Seals and Sealings, John G. Younger ; 26. Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A, Helena Tomas ; 27. Linear B, Thomas G. Palaima ; 28. Cypro-Minoan, Nicolle Hirschfeld ; Material Crafts ; 29. Materials and Industries, Doniert G. Evely ; 30. Minoan Pottery, Birgitta Hallager ; 31. Mycenaean Pottery, Jeremy B. Rutter ; 32. Textiles, Brendan Burke ; 33. Jewellery, Robert Laffineur ; Events ; 34. Eruption of Thera/Santorini, Sturt W. Manning ; 35. Trojan War, Trevor Bryce ; 36. The Collapse at the End of the Bronze Age, Oliver Dickinson ; Section IV: Specific Sites and Regions - Crete ; 37. Ayia Triada Vincenzo La Rosa ; 38. Kato Zakros Lefteris Platon ; 39. Khania (Kydonia), Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki ; 40. Knossos, Colin Macdonald ; 41. Kommos, Joseph and Maria Shaw ; 42. Malia, Jan Driessen ; 43. Palaikastro, J. Alexander MacGillivray and L. Hugh Sackett ; 44. Phaistos, Vincenzo La Rosa ; Mainland Greece ; 45. Argolid, Sofia Voutsaki ; 46. Boeotia, Anastasia Dakouri-Hild ; 47. Central and Southern Peloponnese, William G. Cavanagh ; 48. Northern Aegean, Stelios Andreou ; 49. Lerna, Martha Wiencke ; 50. Mycenae, Elizabeth French ; 51. Pylos, Jack L. Davis ; 52. Thebes, Anastasia Dakouri-Hild ; 53. Thorikos, Robert Laffineur ; 54. Tiryns, Joseph Maran ; Cyclades, Dodecanese, and Saronic Islands ; 55. Aegina Kolonna, Walter Gauss ; 56. Akrotiri, Christos Doumas ; 57. Dodecanese, Toula Marketou ; 58. Rhodes, Toula Marketou ; Wider Mediterranean ; 59. Cape Gelidonya shipwreck, George F. Bass ; 60. Cyprus, Louise Steel ; 61. Egypt, Jacke Phillips ; 62. Levant, Assaf Yasur-Landau ; 63. Troy, Peter Jablonka ; 64. Uluburun shipwreck, Cemal Pulak ; 65. Western Anatolia, Alan M. Greaves ; 66. Western Mediterranean, Lucia Vagnetti