Preface
Anna Lucia D’Agata, Luca Girella, Eleni Papadopoulou, Davide G. Aquini

Introduction
Anna Lucia D’Agata

1. Eventful Archaeology, Long-term Processes and LM II-IIIA2 Early Crete
Anna Lucia D’Agata, Luca Girella

2. Knossos during LM II-IIIB: Dynamism and Development
Todd Whitelaw

3. The LM II-IIIA2 Kingdom of Knossos as Reflected by its Linear B Archives
Jan Driessen, Ophélie Mouthuy

4. Unpacking the State of Knossos in LM II-IIIA2
Dimitri Nakassis

5. The Fateful Century: From the Destruction of Crete ca. 1450-1440 to the Destruction of Knossos ca. 1350-1340
Malcolm H. Wiener

6.Architectural Continuity, Renovation, and Innovation in the Town and Palace of Knossos, LM IB-IIIA1
Colin F. Macdonald

7. The Use and Re-Use of Gold Rings in Knossos after the LM IB Destructions
Judith Weingarten

8. Neither Minoan nor Mycenaean: The Burial Record of Knossos and the Materialisation of a New Social Order, 1600-1400
Yannis Galanakis

9. The Port at Kommos as a Case Study for the Monopalatial Period
James C. Wright

10. The Arrival of the Mycenaeans at Kydonia: Ancient Tradition and Archaeological Evidence
Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki

11. Chania in the LM II-IIIA Period
Birgitta P. Hallager

12. LM II-IIIA1 Aptara in the Knossian Sphere of Influence
Eleni Papadopoulou

13. The LM IIIA Workshop and Storage Complex at Galatas Pediada and Other Compounds with Long Galleries: Economic Implications for Final Palatial Crete
Giorgos Rethemiotakis, Kostis S. Christakis

14. Cultural Transformation and Continuity in East Crete during LM II-IIIA2 Early: A Ceramic Perspective
Charlotte Langohr

15. The Inatos Cave in LM II to LM III
Philip P. Betancourt, Sydney R. Sarasin, Leanna Kolonauski

16. Viannos: The Post-Neopalatial Settlement
Lefteris Platon, Kephali Chondros

17. Mycenaeans at Mochlos: A Question of Ethnicity
Jeffrey S. Soles

18. Down and Out in East Crete: Transformation and Change at Gournia and the Isthmus of Ierapetra from LM IB to the LM IIIA2 Period
Matthew Buell

19. About the Size, the Duration and the Nature of the Post-palatial Settlement at Zakros
Lefteris Platon

20. Palaikastro and its Territory in LM II-IIIA2 Early
Carl Knappett, Tim F. Cunningham

21. Late Bronze Age Monumental Architecture in Messenia: The Cases of Pylos and Iklaina
Michael C. Nelson

22. Pottery Production and Consumption at Agios Vasileios during LH II-IIIA and the Cretan Connection
Peter M. Day, Vasco Hachtmann, Eleftheria Kardamaki, Adamantia Vasilogamvrou

23. Many States, One World of Images? Some Thoughts on the Iconography of LM II-IIIA Crete in its Wider Aegean Context
Fritz Blakolmer

24. The Beginnings of Linear B and Literate Administration on the Greek Mainland
Vassilis Petrakis

25. Event, Process, Transition, Transformation: Concluding Comments and Data Regarding Crete’s Monopalatial Period
Michael L. Galaty, Jeremy B. Rutter

Preface
Anna Lucia D’Agata

Introduction
Silvia Ferrara, Miguel Valério

Image-Bound Scripts at the Inception of Writing
1. The Origins of Bronze Age Aegean Writing: Linear A, Cretan Hieroglyphic and a New Proposed Pathway of Script Formation
Roeland P.-J.E. Decorte

2. Hieroglyphic Writing on Old Hittite Seals and Sealings? Towards a Material Basis for Further Research
Mark Weeden

Adaptations: Between Pictorialism and Schematism
3. The Byblos Script
Juan Pablo Vita, José Ángel Zamora

4. Cypro-Minoan: An Aegean-derived Syllabary on Cyprus (and Elsewhere)
Miguel Valério

5. The Southwestern Palaeo-Hispanic Script: State of Knowledge, Hypotheses and Controversies
Javier de Hoz

6. Local Adaptations of the Alphabet among the Non-Greek Peoples of Anatolia
Ignasi-Xavier Adiego

7. The Meroitic Writing System: Change and Variation
Alex de Voogt

Patterns and Diversity: A World of Possibilities
8. Aztec Hieroglyphic Writing: A Comparative Perspective
Gordon Whittaker

9. The Invention, Transmission and Evolution of Writing: Insights from the New Scripts of West Africa
Piers Kelly