ARCH 330 "Archaeology of the Prehistoric Aegean" (Spring 2026) covers the Neolithic Age (ca. 6900–3100 BCE) and Bronze Age (ca. 3100–1100 BCE) in mainland Greece, Crete, the Cycladic islands, and parts of western Anatolia (now in Turkey), including Knossos, Mycenae, and  Troy. To adequately explain the social developments that coalesced into Minoan Civilization of Crete and Helladic Civilization of Greece, as well as the relations of these civilizations to that of Classical Greece, you will also study the roots of the Neolithic ("New Stone") Age in the preceding Mesolithic ("Middle Stone") Age, as well as the transformation of Late Bronze Age institutions into those of the subsequent Iron Age.