Back to the beginning : reassessing social and political complexity on Crete during the early and middle Bronze Age / edited by Ilse Schoep, Peter Tomkins and Jan Driessen.

Includes bibliographical references.

Back to the beginning for the early and middle Bronze Age on Crete / Ilse Schoep and Peter Tomkins -- Behind the horizon : reconsidering the genesis and function of the "First Palace" at Knossos (final neolithic IV-middle Minoan IB) / Peter Tomkins -- Palatial Knossos : the early years / Colin F. Macdonald -- The urbanisation of prehistoric Crete : settlement perspectives on Minoan state formation / Todd Whitelaw -- The emergence of elite groups at protopalatial Malia : a biography of Quartier Mu / Jean-Claude Poursat -- Trade and interconnections in Lasithi between EM II and MM I, the evidence from the Ayios Charalambos Cave / Philip P. Betancourt -- Craft production and social practices at prepalatial Phaistos : the background to the first "palace" / Simona Todaro -- Emerging authority : a functional analysis of the MM II settlement of phaistos / Pietro Militello -- Regional elite-groups and the production and consumption of seals in the prepalatial period : a case-study of the Asterousia region / Kostas Sbonias -- The social arenas of tradition : investigating collective and individual social strategies in the prepalatial and protopalatial Mesara / Maria Relaki -- The construction, deconstruction and non-construction of hierarchies in the funerary record of prepalatial Crete / Borja Legarra Herrero -- A matrilocal house society in pre- and protopalatial Crete? / Jan Driessen -- A regional network approach to protopalatial complexity / Carl Knappett -- Bridging the divide between the "prepalatial" and the "protopalatial" periods? / Ilse Schoep -- "Back to the beginning" : an overview / Peter Warren.