This volume represents a pioneering examination of the nature and
identities of Aegean prehistory as a discipline. Emerging from a
workshop that generated lively debate among a wide cross-section of
scholars, it offers one of the first published attempts to situate
Aegean prehistory within a modern self-critical and reflexive context.
The chapters and commentaries together yield a multidisciplinary
discourse, covering such topics as the current health and academic
status of the field, the political and social parameters of the
discipline, the relationship between Aegean prehistory and Hellenism,
and the discovery of the "Aegean" by Greek modernists.