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Machine generated contents note: Part One The Doubtful Significance of Natural Catastrophes |
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1 The Eruption of Thera: An Unwanted Research Project 3 |
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Life and Death on the Volcano 3 |
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A Visit from a Mathematician 7 |
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Excavations in the Library 9 |
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How Archaeology and Geology Found Common Ground 14 |
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Trends in the Spirit of the Age 15 |
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The Eruption of Krakatau 18 |
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In the Realm of King Minos 20 |
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The Theories of Spyridon Marinatos 22 |
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How Does One Start a Tsunami? 25 |
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Outmoded Hypotheses or Unnecessary Hysteria? 28 |
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The Remnants of Former Glory 29 |
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Crete Goes for a Swim 34 |
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But There It Is! 35 |
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Where or What was the Collapse? 37 |
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Irreconcilable Discrepancies 39 |
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The Year of the Eruption 42 |
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2 Earthquake: Was Civilisation Nature's Plaything? 47 |
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The earth quakes in Heraklion 47 |
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A 4000-year-old Town Straight from the Drawing Board 49 |
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How the Sites Defied Earthquakes 53 |
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The Secrets of the Amari Valley 57 |
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Earthquakes Past and Present 62 |
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What Causes Radical Cultural Change? 65 |
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3 Climate: History Cutting Capers 69 |
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Did Climate Change Cause the Upheaval about 1200 BC? 69 |
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Discovery and Investigation of the 'Palace of Nestor' 72 |
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Pollen and the History of Climate 73 |
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The Pylos Regional Archaeology Project 75 |
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Climate or Humans? 79 |
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Part Two Archaeological Research in the Twenty-first Century |
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4 Techniques: Archaeology Past and Present 85 |
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Aegean Prehistory in Former Times 88 |
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Aspects of Modern Field Archaeology 90 |
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Fieldwork in the Future 91 |
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The Organisation and Requirements of Fieldwork 93 |
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Archaeology Takes Off 98 |
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Down to Earth 100 |
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The Limits of Technology 103 |
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5 Humans and the Environment: A Lost Paradise 107 |
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Vanished Landmarks 107 |
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The Exhaustion of Natural Resources 108 |
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Challenges for Geoarchaeology 111 |
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Existence in the Garden of Eden 113 |
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The Move to Settlement 116 |
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The Untouched World of Albania 121 |
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6 Engineering Knowledge: The Control of Water and Town |
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Planning 125 |
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Technical Reconstruction 125 |
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Hydraulic Engineering in Mycenaean Times 126 |
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A Granary Becomes a Desert 130 |
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Of Ports and Men 132 |
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Urban Development 135 |
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Mysterious Labyrinths 136 |
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A Magical Dance 139 |
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Future Prospects 141 |
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Part Three Great Riddles of Mediterranean Archaeology |
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7 Atlantis: The End of a Legend 145 |
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A Gruesome Find 145 |
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Lost in Space and Time 146 |
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Plato's Most Ambitious Project 148 |
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Plato's Role as a Disseminator of Ideas 150 |
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Fiction or Fact? 151 |
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Past and Present Explanations 157 |
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Prehistoric Greece in Plato's Text 158 |
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Critical Translation Errors 161 |
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Features ofAtlantis 168 |
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An Independent Opinion 178 |
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8 Troy: The Circle-girt City 181 |
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Back into the Labyrinth 181 |
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The Harbour at Troy 185 |
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On Transporting Ships 188 |
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'The Myth of Troy' 191 |
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9 Western Asia Minor: The Gordian Knot 193 |
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A Caravan Crosses Central Asia Minor 193 |
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The Peculiarities of Asia Minor 195 |
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Progress in the Stone Age 196 |
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The Age of Metals and Fortifications 198 |
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The Hittite Empire 201 |
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World War Zero 205 |
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Where is the Problem? 208 |
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10 The Dark Age: Where the Bull Came from that Bore Europa Away 213 |
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The States of Asia Minor 213 |
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Developments in Phrygia and Lydia 216 |
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Caria: A Rendezvous 218 |
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The Situation in Greece 220 |
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Influences from the East 221 |
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The State of Science 224 |
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The Rise of Etruscan Culture 226 |
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Intermediaries in Time and Space 229 |
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Part Four The Future of the Past |
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11 Archaeology Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 237 |
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The Philhellenes' View of the World 237 |
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New Methods of Archaeological Research 244 |
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What Does the Future Hold for Archaeology? 246 |
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Adieu, Thera! 249 |
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Bibliography 255 |
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The Eruption of Thera 255 |
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Earthquake 255 |
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Climate 256 |
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Techniques 256 |
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Humans and the Environment 256 |
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Engineering Knowledge 257 |
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Atlantis 257 |
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Troy 258 |
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Western Asia Minor 258 |
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The Dark Age 258 |
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Archaeology Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 259. |
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