In this book is presented hitherto unpublished finds from the Minoan
Palace periods discovered in major and minor excavations of recent years
in the central, eastern and northern Aegean. The sites in the Aegean are
Thera, Ios, Karpathos, Rhodes, Lemnos and Samothrace, while the west
coast of Asia Minor are represented with the Urla peninsula (Cesme),
Teichioussa, Iasos, Miletus and Troy. The papers discuss finds such as
pottery, loom weights, other small finds, administrative written and
sealed documents, and architecture seen in relation to questions like
trade, 'minoanising' and colonization. The central issues of the
conference are discussed among Aegean scholars in the last chapter.