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Massive two volumes arising from the Proceedings of the 5th International Aegean Rencontre held at the University of Heidelberg in 1994. Fifty three contributions reflected are grouped under eight headings: Processes of State Formation; The Social Position of the Individual; Economy, Trade and Craftsmanship; Long-Distance Contacts and Society; Rulershup and Polity; Religion and Politics; Iconography; Geographical and Social Organization. A few of the highlight papers included: From Sharing to Hoarding: The Neolithic Foundations of Bronze Age Society (Paul Halstead); Social and Political Processes in the Mycenean Argolid: the Evidence from the Mortuary Practices (Sofia Voutsaki); Aegina- First Aegean `State' Outside Crete? (W-D Niemeier); Development of the Mycenean State in Laconia: Evidence from the Laconia Survey (William Cavanagh); The Argolid in 1400- What Happened? (Guenter Kopcke); Linear A Commodities: A Comparison of Resources (Ruth Palmer); Pseira, Crete: The Economic Base for a Bronze Age Town (Philip Betancourt); Some further thoughts on `collectors' (John Killen); The Archaeological Correlates of Religion: Case Studies in the Aegean (James Wright); Images of Power in the Bronze Age Aegean (Janice Crowley); On Hierarchical Thinking in Aegean Bronze Age Glyptic Imagery (Michael Wedde); Bronze-Age Representations of Aegean Bull-Games III (John Younger); Space Through Time: Diachronic Perspectives on the Spatial Organisation of the Pylian State (John Bennet); The Last Days of the Pylos Polity (Thomas Palaima); Old and New Evidence for the Palatial Society of Mycenean Thebes: an Outline (Vassilis Arvantinos). 680p (Université de Liège 1995)