ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION NOTE ON A RECENT ATTEMPT TO UPSET THE ACCEPTED SEQUENCE OF PERIODS �� THE ISLAND A. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS B. ROUTES AND TOPOGRAPHY C. AUTHORITIES APPENDIX A. ANCIENT AUTHORITIES ON ROUTES B. MODERN MAPS AND CHARTS, ETC. MEANING OF VARIOUS NAMES �� A. THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD B. THE EARLY MINOAN PERIOD EARLY MINOAN �� EARLY MINOAN �� EARLY MINOAN �� �� THE MIDDLE MINOAN PERIOD MIDDLE MINOAN �� MIDDLE MINOAN �� MIDDLE MINOAN �� �� THE LATE MINOAN PERIOD LATE MINOAN �� AND �� LATE MINOAN �� �� A SURVEY OF THE MINOAN CIVILIZATION THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CRETE �� POST-MINOAN CRETE 8UB-MINOAN AND PROTOGEOMETRIC GEOMETRIC ORIENTALIZING AND ARCHAIC CLASSICAL HELLENISTIC ROMAN APPENDIX: POST-MINOAN SITES OF UNCERTAIN DATE SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ADDENDA INDEX