| List of Illustrations | p. xii |
| List of Abbreviations | p. xx |
| Foreword to the new edition | p. xxiii |
| The Concept of a Dark Age | p. 1 |
| The Literary Evidence | p. 2 |
| Chronography | p. 10 |
| Other Types of Evidence | p. 16 |
| Notes | p. 22 |
| The Regional Pottery-Styles | p. 24 |
| Terminology | p. 25 |
| The Latest Bronze Age Styles and the Problem of Submycenaean | p. 28 |
| Qualities of the Submycenaean Style | p. 34 |
| The Subminoan Style | p. 40 |
| The Rise of Protogeometric and the Attic Series | p. 43 |
| The Regional Grouping of the Pottery Styles | p. 55 |
| The Early or 'Advanced' Styles | p. 55 |
| The Argolid | p. 56 |
| Corinth | p. 58 |
| Thessaly | p. 61 |
| The Central Cyclades | p. 63 |
| Elis | p. 65 |
| Asia Minor | p. 66 |
| The Later Derivative Styles | p. 68 |
| Boeotia | p. 69 |
| Euboea | p. 71 |
| Phokis and Lokris | p. 72 |
| Macedonia | p. 73 |
| Dodecanese | p. 75 |
| N. Cyclades | p. 78 |
| Crete | p. 79 |
| The Independent Styles | p. 84 |
| Ithaka | p. 84 |
| Achaea | p. 86 |
| Messenia | p. 87 |
| Laconia | p. 87 |
| The Remaining Regions | p. 89 |
| Arcadia | p. 90 |
| E. Aegean Islands | p. 90 |
| Sicily: S. Italy | p. 91 |
| Hand-made Wares | p. 94 |
| Notes | p. 98 |
| The Chronology of the Early Iron Age in Greece | p. 106 |
| Primary Dates and the Attic Series | p. 107 |
| Other Evidence for Absolute Chronology | p. 113 |
| First Category | p. 113 |
| Second Category | p. 117 |
| Third Category | p. 120 |
| Absolute Dating | p. 122 |
| The Attic Series | p. 122 |
| The Argolid | p. 124 |
| Corinth | p. 124 |
| Thessaly | p. 125 |
| Cyclades | p. 125 |
| Euboea | p. 126 |
| East Greece | p. 127 |
| Crete | p. 128 |
| Laconia | p. 130 |
| Ithaka | p. 131 |
| Rest of Greece | p. 131 |
| Sicily: S. Italy | p. 133 |
| Notes | p. 136 |
| The Grave | p. 140 |
| Principles of Classification | p. 141 |
| Interpretation of Grave-evidence | p. 143 |
| Regional Developments | p. 147 |
| Attica | p. 147 |
| The Argolid and Corinthia | p. 151 |
| Thessaly | p. 154 |
| Central Cyclades | p. 156 |
| Elis | p. 157 |
| Asia Minor | p. 157 |
| Boeotia | p. 158 |
| Euboea, Northern Cyclades | p. 159 |
| Phokis | p. 159 |
| Macedonia | p. 160 |
| The Dodecanese | p. 163 |
| Crete | p. 164 |
| Other Regions | p. 170 |
| Epirus | p. 172 |
| Western Colonies | p. 173 |
| Conclusions | p. 177 |
| The Spread of Single Burial | p. 177 |
| Skeletal Evidence | p. 184 |
| The Changes in Rite | p. 187 |
| Other Inferences | p. 190 |
| Notes | p. 198 |
| Appendix | p. 202 |
| Iron and Other Metals | p. 213 |
| Technical Factors | p. 213 |
| The Initial Spread of Iron-working | p. 217 |
| The Arrival of the Iron Age | p. 228 |
| Protogeometric Attica | p. 231 |
| The Argolid | p. 233 |
| Thessaly and Asia Minor | p. 236 |
| The Hypothesis of Bronze-shortage | p. 237 |
| Other Regions of Greece | p. 239 |
| Phokis | p. 240 |
| Skyros | p. 242 |
| Dodecanese | p. 242 |
| The Ionian Islands: Achaea | p. 243 |
| Other Areas | p. 245 |
| Conclusions: Isolation and Stagnation | p. 246 |
| Crete, Macedonia and Epirus | p. 249 |
| Crete | p. 249 |
| Macedonia | p. 249 |
| Epirus | p. 257 |
| The Earlier Geometric Period | p. 261 |
| Attica | p. 261 |
| The Argolid and Corinth | p. 264 |
| Crete | p. 266 |
| The Later Geometric Period | p. 268 |
| Fibulae and Pins | p. 268 |
| Defensive Armour | p. 271 |
| Offensive Weapons | p. 273 |
| The Finds from the Sanctuaries | p. 275 |
| Stratigraphy | p. 276 |
| Evidence from Pottery | p. 276 |
| Analogous Metal Types | p. 277 |
| Tripod Cauldrons | p. 281 |
| Notes | p. 287 |
| External Relations | p. 296 |
| The Evidence of Dialect and Tradition | p. 299 |
| The Great Destructions | p. 304 |
| The Evidence for Foreign Invasion | p. 305 |
| The Dorian Hypothesis | p. 311 |
| Alternative Explanations | p. 312 |
| The Second Wave of Disturbances | p. 313 |
| The Evidence of the Cist-tomb | p. 314 |
| The Evidence of Metal-types | p. 317 |
| The Significance of Metalwork in General | p. 321 |
| The Vardar Valley Invaders | p. 322 |
| Retrospect | p. 323 |
| Pottery | p. 324 |
| Metalwork | p. 324 |
| Cremation | p. 326 |
| The Advent of Protogeometric | p. 327 |
| Hand-made Pottery | p. 329 |
| The Revival of Communication | p. 330 |
| The Final Emergence | p. 336 |
| Notes | p. 353 |
| The Internal Situation | p. 360 |
| Decline: the 12th and earlier 11th Centuries | p. 360 |
| Depopulation | p. 365 |
| Isolation: the later 11th and earlier 10th Centuries | p. 368 |
| The Ionian Migration: Regional Diversity | p. 373 |
| Agriculture | p. 378 |
| Intimations of Poverty | p. 380 |
| Political and Social Structure | p. 386 |
| The Homeric World | p. 388 |
| The Problem of Continuity in Religion and Art | p. 394 |
| The Beginnings of Recovery: the late 10th to early 8th Centuries | p. 402 |
| Diffusion of Pottery-styles | p. 403 |
| Attica | p. 404 |
| Regional Limitations | p. 406 |
| Architecture | p. 408 |
| General Inferences | p. 413 |
| The Greek Renaissance: the middle and later 8th Century | p. 416 |
| Colonization | p. 416 |
| Representational Art | p. 417 |
| Regional Patterns | p. 419 |
| Intercommunication | p. 419 |
| Architecture | p. 421 |
| Sacred Buildings | p. 422 |
| Domestic Architecture | p. 423 |
| Historical Consciousness in Poetry and Art | p. 429 |
| Notes | p. 437 |
| General Index | p. 443 |
| Site Index | p. 450 |
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