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).

• List of Figures and Tables ixList of Color Plates xxiiAcknowledgments xxvIntroduction 1Part I The Landscape and Aegean Prehistory 91 The Dynamic Land 112 Hunter-Gatherers: The Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic in Greece 283 Early Farming Communities: Neolithic Greece 464 Complex Cultures of the Early Bronze Age 835 The Middle to Early Late Bronze Age on Crete: The Minoan Civilization 1236 The Middle to Early Late Bronze Age on the Cyclades and the Mainland 1557 The Mature Late Bronze Age on the Mainland and in the Wider Aegean: The Mycenaean Civilization 181Part II The Archaeology of Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Greece in its Longer-term Context 2078 The Greek Early Iron Age and the Concept of a “Dark Age” 2099 The Archaeology of the Archaic Era: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life 23410 The Built Environment, Symbolic Material Culture, and Society in Archaic Greece 25211 The Archaeology of Classical Greece: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life 26512 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Classical Greece 28513 The Archaeology of Greece in Hellenistic to Early Roman Imperial Times: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life 31014 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Hellenistic and Early Roman Greece 33715 The Archaeology of Greece from Middle Roman Imperial Times to Late Antiquity: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life 35116 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Middle to Late Roman Greece 369Part III The Archaeology of Medieval and post-Medieval Greece in its Historical Context 37917 The Archaeology of Byzantine Greece: Demography, Settlement Patterns, and Everyday Life 38118 Symbolic Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in the Byzantine Aegean 40219 The Archaeology of Frankish-Crusader Society in Greece 41620 The Archaeology of Ottoman and Venetian Greece: Population, Settlement Dynamics, and Socio-economic Developments 43621 Material Culture, the Built Environment, and Society in Ottoman and Venetian Greece 45922 The Archaeology of Early Modern Greece 478Index 498

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 of evidence carefully collected and well-analyzed in this volume, it will, as its author hopes, “contribute to a wider awareness of the rich history of this beautiful country in every century of its remarkable past.”  (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1 November 2013)“For others, however, The complete archaeology of Greeceis a valuable source of information, drawing a broad canvas, and, most significantly, exposing important questions concerning each period. . . Bintliff’s book is a generous reciprocation of Greek Philoxenia, a distillation of his long experience of Greek archaeology in the field, this theoretical positions and methodological tools, reaching out further than to the people of Greece 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 an ambitious panorama of Greek archaeology . . . Bintliff’s book does more than any other major survey of Greek history or archaeology to bring the rural economy into the larger narrative of later Greek history.”  (The New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, 1 September 2012)“By doing that he has delivered a brilliant survey of Greek archaeology and a remarkably succinct and comprehensive volume – a must read for anyone interested in the archaeology of Greece.”  (The Anglo-Hellenic Review, 1 October 2012)“It doesn’t get much more comprehensive than this.”  (Corinthianmatters.com, 2 May 2012)