Following Oliver Dickinson's successful "The Aegean Bronze Age," this excellent textbook is an up-to-date synthesis of the period between the collapse of the Bronze Age civilization in the thirteenth and twelfth centuries BC, right up to the rise of the Greek civilization in the eight century BC.
With chapter bibliographies, distribution maps and illustrations, Dickinson's detailed examination of material and archaeological evidence argues that many characteristics of Ancient Greece developed in the Dark Ages. He also includes up-to-date coverage of the "Homeric question."
This highly informative text focuses on:
* the reasons for the Bronze age collapse which brought about the Dark Age
* the processes that enabled Greece to emerge from the Dark Age
* the degree of continuity from the Dark Age to later times.
Dickinson has provided an invaluable survey of this period that will not only be useful to specialists and undergraduates in thefield, but that will also prove highly popular with the interested general reader.

Following Oliver Dickinson's successful "The Aegean Bronze Age," this excellent textbook is an up-to-date synthesis of the period between the collapse of the Bronze Age civilization in the thirteenth and twelfth centuries BC, right up to the rise of the Greek civilization in the eight century BC.
With chapter bibliographies, distribution maps and illustrations, Dickinson's detailed examination of material and archaeological evidence argues that many characteristics of Ancient Greece developed in the Dark Ages. He also includes up-to-date coverage of the "Homeric question."
This highly informative text focuses on:
* the reasons for the Bronze age collapse which brought about the Dark Age
* the processes that enabled Greece to emerge from the Dark Age
* the degree of continuity from the Dark Age to later times.
Dickinson has provided an invaluable survey of this period that will not only be useful to specialists and undergraduates in thefield, but that will also prove highly popular with the interested general reader.

Oliver Dickinson has written a scholarly, accessible and up-to-date introduction to the prehistoric civilizations of Greece. The Aegean Bronze Age saw the rise and fall of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. The cultural history of the region emerges through a series of thematic chapters that treat settlement, economy, crafts, exchange and foreign contact, and religion and burial customs. Students and teachers will welcome this book, but it will also provide the ideal companion for amateur archaeologists visiting the Aegean.