*Humankind’s presence in the Aegean region is well documented by the Upper Palaeolithic, nearly 50 kya. By the middle of the seventh millennium BCE the first farmers had arrived on the mainland. The Bronze Age Aegean civilizations on Crete, the Cyclades, and the Greek mainland reached maturity during the second millennium BCE although many of the cultural attributes that define the groups we refer to as Minoans and Mycenaeans are of Neolithic origin.

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