Table of Contents

Part I. Crete Between East and West, State Collapse, and State Emergence: 1. Introduction; 2. Method and structure; 3. Text perspectives; 4. Chronology, terminology, and dating methods; 5. The Late Bronze Age Cretan landscape and its use; 6. The broader framework: structures of landscape use by the LBA-EIA transition; Part II. 'Positive' Collapse and Its Effects, c.1200–1000 BC: The Restructuring of Space and Place: 7. Approaches to studying collapse – explanation and characterization; 8. The changing use of space: introduction; 9. Settlement pattern in Crete; 10. Subsistence in the new settlement environment; 11. Settlement change outside Crete: islands and peninsulas; 12. Mainland central Greece: settlement priorities during and after collapse; 13. Constructing post-collapse society: inside Cretan settlements, c.1200–1000 BC; 14. Ceremonial and ritual practice within settlements; 15. Beyond settlements: the changing cultural landscape; 16. Mortuary space and practice in Crete and other areas; 17. The structure of collapse in Crete; Part III. After the Fall: Interactions with Other Mediterranean Regions in the Twelfth to Eighth Centuries BC: 18. Introduction; 19. Long-distance contacts before and after the collapse horizon, c.1300–1000 BC; 20. The social role of exotica; 21. Exchange structures inside post-collapse Crete; 22. Lift-off: east Mediterranean trade and the central Aegean from the tenth century; 23. Nothing to declare? – Crete in the tenth through eighth centuries; 24. Modes and routes of exchange within Crete in the later EIA; 25. Crete's membership in the 'orientalising' and colonial worlds from the seventh century; Part IV. 'Proto-poleis'? – The Growth of Social Complexity in Crete from the Tenth through the Seventh Centuries: 26. Main sources of evidence discussed; 27. Settlement patterns (1): the nucleation phenomenon; 28. Settlement patterns (2): small sites and small-group identity; 29. Subsistence and land-use in the expanding polities; 30. Inside settlements; 31. The mortuary record; 32. The ritual landscape and the construction of political identity; 33. The early Archaic horizon: correlates of state development and growth in the archaeological record; 34. The polis as place and as concept in Crete; 35. The value of 'classic' state formation models to PG-early Archaic Crete, viewed in its Mediterranean context; Part V. Constructing Difference: The History, Structure, and Context of Cretan States in the Later Archaic through Classical Periods: 36. Introduction; 37. Problems in generalization and comparison; 38. The central Greek polis structure over time: tensions between tyranny/kingship and participative governance; 39. Special aspects of the Archaic to Classical Cretan pols; 40. Cretan identities in historical perspective; 41. Serfdom and slavery in the construction of Late Archaic to Classical society: comparisons between Crete and other Aegean areas; 42. The public feasting tradition and its political significance in Crete and other areas; 43. A final comparison: democracy and its alternatives in the Aegean world.