Cyprian Broodbank is Professor of Archaeology and a Director at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. He was Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London from 1993 to 2014. His book An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades won the James R. Wiseman award of the Archaeological Institute of America (for all fields of archaeology), and the Runciman Prize (for all fields of Hellenic Studies).

One: A Barbarian History ¿ Two: Provocative Places ¿ Three: The Speciating Sea (1.8 million - 50,000 years ago) ¿ Four: A Cold Coming We Had of It (50,000 years ago - 10,000 BC) ¿ Five: Brave New Worlds (10,000 -5500 BC) ¿ Six: How It Might Have Been (5500 - 3500 BC) ¿ Seven: The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (3500 - 2200 BC) ¿ Eight: Pomp and Circumstance (2200 - 1300 BC) ¿ Nine: From Sea to Shining Sea (1300 - 800 BC) ¿ Ten: The End of the Beginning (800 - 500 BC) ¿ Eleven: De Profundis

An award-winning history of the Mediterranean from prehistory to the Classical world reissued with an extended new preface by the author.