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A study of the origin and development of Mycenaean sacred architecture in the LBA III period (1400-1100 BC) on the mainland and Crete. Whittaker asserts that Minoan and Mycenaean religious beliefs and practices differed considerably and perhaps influenced each other only superficially. She discusses the apparent connection between Mycenaean and Palestinian cult buildings, contacts between the Aegean and the Levant, and the differences between sacred and domestic architecture. This is an attempt to reach conclusions concerning the function of Mycenaean cult buildings; through the analysis of religious symbols to arrive at some insight into the way prehistoric people thought.