This international conference sponsored jointly by the American School ofClassical Studies and the British School of Archaeology at Athens wasdedicated to the m... » 

This international conference sponsored jointly by the American School ofClassical Studies and the British School of Archaeology at Athens wasdedicated to the memories of Alan John Bayard Wace and Carl William Blegen andto their long archaeological collaboration. The main theme of the conferencewas taken from their pioneering article Pottery as Evidence for Trade andColonisation in the Aegean Bronze Age Klio 32 1939. The papers presentedreflect the current state of scholarly opinion about prehistoric pottery fromMainland Greece and the extensive trade in that pottery 50 years after Waceand Blegens article. With 39 papers by archaeologists from 13 countries thevolume presents comprehensive surveys by period and area as well as detaileddiscussions of new finds and problems ranging from the Early Middle and LateBronze Ages on the Mainland and islands of Greece as well as Cyprus theLevant Egypt Anatolia and Italy. «