Table of Contents

List of maps; List of text-figures; List of chronological tables; Preface; Part I. The Prehistory of the Balkans to 1000 BC: 1. The prehistory of Romania: from the earliest times to 1000 BC Vl. Dumitrescu; 2. The Stone Age in the Central Balkan Area M. Garasanin; 3. The Eneolithic period in the Central Balkan Area M. Garasanin; 4. The Bronze Age in the Central Balkan Area M. Garasanin; 5. The prehistory of Albania F. Prendi; Part II. The Middle East: 6. Assyria: Ashur-dan II to Ashur-Nirari V (934–745 BC) A. K. Gratson; 7. Babylonia c.1000–748 BC J. A. Brinkman; 8. Urartu R. D. Barnett; 9. The Neo-Hittite states in Syria and Anatolia J. D. Hawkins; 10. Israel and Judah until the revolt of Jehu (931–841 BC) T. C. Mitchell; 11. Israel and Judah from Jehu until the period of Assyrian domination (841–c. 750 BC) T. C. Mitchell; 12. Cyprus V. Karageorghis; 13. Egypt: from the twenty-second to the twenty-fourth dynasty I. E. S. Edwards; Part III. The Balkans and the Aegean: 14. The Early Iron Age in the Central Balkan Area, c.1000–750 BC M. Garasanin; 15. Illyris, Epirus and Macedonia in the Early Iron Age N. G. L. Hammond; 16. Central Greece and Thessaly A. M. Snodgrass; 17. The Peloponnese N. G. L. Hammond; 18a. East Greece J. M. Cook; 18b. The islands John Boardman; 19. The geometric culture of Greece John Boardman; 20a. The earliest alphabetic writing B. S. J. Isserlin; 20b. Greek alphabetic writing L. H. Jeffery; 20c. Linguistic problems of the Balkan area in the late prehistoric and early Classical periods R. A. Crossland; 20d. The Greek language and the historical dialects J. B. Hainsworth; 20e. The Balkan languages (Illyrian, Thracian and Daco-Moesian) E. C. Polome; Bibliography; Index.

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