Excerpt from ?gean Arch?ology: An Introduction to the Arch?ology of Prehistoric Greece

In this book I have endeavoured to give as succinctly as possible a general account of the remains of the ancient Aegean civilization of the Bronze Age, the dominant culture of prehistoric Greece, which has been revealed to us by the excavations of Schliemann, Evans, Halbherr, and others, at Mycenae, Knossos, Phaistos, and many other sites in Greece and the Aegean islands, especially Crete, during the last forty years. Historical conclusions have been omitted from consideration, as my own views as to the "pre-history" of Greece have already been expressed in another work. This book is concerned only with the archaeological discoveries, the actual results of excavation, and the purely "cultural" conclusions which we may draw from them. The evidence of Greek legend has been touched upon only as illustrating these conclusions, and not in connexion with history, as this lies outside the scope of the work.

The general matter of the book being mainly concerned with the Aegean civilization properly so-called, i.e. that of Crete, the islands, and Southern Greece, the subsidiary or rather parallel cultures brought to light by work at Troy, in Northern Greece, and in Cyprus have been treated simply in connexion with the Aegean culture, which at Troy considerably affected the native civilization, in Northern Greece replaced it at a very late period, and in Cyprus overlaid it.

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