Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-188) and index.

The field project / L. Vance Watrous -- The region / L. Vance Watrous and Eberhard Zangger -- Final Neolithic period : egalitarian and heterogeneous communities / L. Vance Watrous and Maryanne Schultz -- Early Minoan I-II periods : emergence of a stratified society / L. Vance Watrous and Maryanne Schultz -- Early Minoan III-middle Minoan IA periods : disruption and social reorganization / L. Vance Watrous and Maryanne Schultz -- Middle Minoan IB-II periods : growth of regional factions and conflict / L. Vance Watrous and Maryanne Schultz -- Middle Minoan III-late Minoan I periods : the rise of a regional state / L. Vance Watrous and Maryanne Schultz -- Late Minoan IIIA-IIIB periods : depopulation and Mycenaean occupation / L. Vance Watrous -- Late Minoan IIIC-geometric periods : retreat into refuge settlements / Krzysztof Nowicki -- Orientalizing classical periods : population nucleation and development of the polis / L. Vance Watrous -- Hellenistic-Roman periods : expansion of the isthmus in an international era / Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan -- Conclusions / L. Vance Watrous -- Appendices: A. Catalog of sites / L. Vance Watrous -- B. Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery / Donald Haggis -- Late Minoan IIIC-orientalizing pottery / Donald Haggis -- Archaic-Hellenistic pottery / L. Vance Watrous -- E. Roman pottery / John Hayes and Angeliki Kossyva.