The Transition to Mycenaean: a stratified Middle Helladic II to Late Helladic IIA pottery sequence from Ayios Stephanos in Lakonia

The following study is concerned only with pottery of the later Middle Helladic and early Mycenaean periods. In spite of its limited scope, we feel that the stratified ceramic sequence presented here has a unique importance not only in the archaeology of prehistoric Lakonia but also, in a broader sense, in the archaeology of prehistoric Greece as a whole. This sequence affords a unique opportunity to trace the effect of Cretan influence on Middle Helladic pottery which transformed the latter into the distinctly different Mycenaean pottery of the Late Helladic period. Cover Page Copyright Page Preface Table of Contents Abbreviations Lists of Illustrations Lists of Tables and Concordances List of Plates Introduction Typology The Wares The Tables of Percentage Composition by Ware Excavation and Stratigraphy Recovery Standards The Deposits Summaries of Pottery by Period Period I Period II Period III Period IV Selected Material from Units Located Stratigraphically Between Deposits of Periods III and IV Conclusions Concordances I: Concordance of Catalogue Numbers and Deposits II: Concordance of Catalogue Numbers and Excavaton Register Numbers Plates