*Humankind’s presence in the Aegean is well documented by the Upper Palaeolithic, nearly 50 kya. By the middle of the seventh millennium BCE the first farmers had migrated from Anatolia to the Greek mainland. The Bronze Age Aegean civilizations on Crete, the Greek mainland, and the Cyclades, reached maturity during the second millennium BCE although many of the cultural attributes that define the groups we refer to as Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Cycladic Islanders are of Neolithic origin. With a focus on Mycenaean prehistory, this site consists of 14 PDFs accessible from the main menu. You are welcome to download PDFs for non-commercial use. Note the link (upper right corner) for downloading individual pdfs.  If PDF does not show RELOAD page .  The “ALL TEXT” button on the home page links to an inclusive PDF. Links are active on PDFs. If copying or sharing please use attribution as shown at bottom of this page. This is a work in progress and your comments are welcome. Please send corrections and/or suggested edits to dwalton (AT reformat and delete this) comcast.net.