Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prehistory in the Mediterranean: the connecting and corrupting sea / A. Bernard Knapp and Emma Blake -- Substances in motion: Neolithic Mediterranean 'trade' / John E. Robb and R. Helen Farr -- Agriculture, pastoralism, and Mediterranean landscapes in prehistory / Graeme Barker -- Changing social relations in the Mediterranean Copper and Bronze Ages / Robert Chapman -- The material expression of cult, ritual, and feasting / Emma Blake -- The gendered sea: iconography, gender, and Mediterranean prehistory / Lauren E. Talalay -- The genesis of monuments among the Mediterranean Islands / Michael J. Kolb -- Lithic technologies and use / Evagelia Karimali -- Archaeometallurgy in the Mediterranean: the social context of mining, technology, and trade / Vasiliki Kassianidou and A. Bernard Knapp -- Settlement in the prehistoric Mediterranean / Luke Sollars -- Maritime commerce and geographies of mobility in the Late Bronze Age of the Eastern Mediterranean: problematizations / Sturt W. Manning and Linda Hulin -- Museum archaeology and the Mediterranean cultural heritage / Robin Skeates.