Political geographies of the Bronze Age Aegean : proceedings of the joint workshop of the Belgian School at Athens (EBSA) and the Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA), May 28 to 31, 2019 / edited by Gert Jan van Wijngaarden and Jan Driessen.

Includes bibliographical references.

Political geographies of Bronze Age Crete: straitjackets, uncertainties and some questions/ Jan Driessen -- Political Geography of the Mycenaean Palatial Period: a tough nut to crack?/ Gert Jan van Wijngaarden -- Turning the landscape into territory: strategies of power for the exploitation of the Cretan mountains during the neopalatial period/ Yiannis Papadatos, Tina Kalantzopoulou -- Problems of the Mycenaean expansion in the central Peloponnese/ Eleni Salavoura -- A tale of two sanctuaries - A tale of two cities: a Minoan borderline at the east end of Crete/ Leonidas Vokotopoulos -- The political geography of the late Bronze Age Argolid: states and territories/ Daniel J. Pullen -- The political geography of central Crete during the early neopalatial period from a ceramic perspective/ Iro Mathioudaki, Luca Girella -- Mistaken 'Mycenaean Territories': cultural and political fragmentation in the area later called 'Attica'/ Nikolas Papadimitriou -- Palatial and non-palatial landscapes in the Mycenaean world: territorial models for central Greece/ Alex R. Knodell -- The distribution of space at Mycenae: greater and beyond/ Heleni Palaiologou -- Open borders? Impressed nodules in neopalatial Kato Zakros/ Maria Anastasiadou -- Ambiguous data: Minoan nodules and political (?) territories/ Diamantis Panagiotopoulos -- Geographies of War? Conceptions of space within Mycenaean palatial polities through textual and archaeological references to military matters/ Anglelos Papadopoulos, Vassilis Petrakis -- Constructing authority at prepalatial Mitrou, Central Greece/ Aleydis Van de Moortel -- The phenomenon of an 'Iconographic Koine' in the Aegean Bronze Age: a comparison of the situations in neopalatial Crete and palatial Mycenaean Greece/ Fritz Blakolmer -- Material culture vs socio-political organisation in pre- and protopalatial Crete: lies or targeted truths?/ Gerald Cadogan -- The configuration of power in the early middle Helladic period/ Anna Phillipa-Touchais -- Dispersion of power in early Mycenaean western Achaea and the transition to the palatial period/ Lena Papazoglou, Constantinos Paschalidis -- Defining Cretan Bronze Age elites on and in the ground/ Borja Legarra Herrero -- Minoan colonisation/ Malcolm H. Wiener.

"Even though the demise of the Minoan and Mycenaean palaces happened more than three millennia ago, opinions on the political geography of the Aegean during the Bronze Age (2500-1100 BC) have seen remarkable changes over the last century and discussions continue. Since the Early Bronze Age, both Crete and the Helladic Mainland witnessed the development of complex societies. The ways in which these were structured and how power was executed, however, remain debated. In this volume, which represents the proceedings of a three-day workshop that took place in Athens from May 29 to 31, 2019, leading scholars in the field of Aegean Archaeology continue these debates on the basis of theoretically informed views that incorporate the latest archaeological developments, derived from both surveys and excavations. The volume is structured around three themes: 1. Territories. Can political or other meaningful spatial organisations be recognised in our data? And how did territories relate to one another? What about boundaries? How can we integrate our data into a discussion of intra-and inter-territorial relationships? 2. Authority display. Can we recognise different levels or scales in visual representation of authority? Were Aegean societies faceless? 3. Forms of power. How was power exercised and how can we recognise this? What types of control (military, economic, religious, social, technological?) can be distinguished and to what extent was power individualised, concentrated, hereditary, institutionalised, corporate?"-- Back cover.