This book applies anthropological concepts of social structure and evolutionary theory to Ancient Greece.

David B. Small is Professor of Archaeology at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania. A Fulbright fellow, he has conducted research in Greece, Italy, Israel, Honduras, and the United States.

1. My analytical frame; 2. The Ancient Greek landscape; 3. The Neolithic in Greece; 4. Developments c.3200-2200 BCE; 5. The beginning of change and the evolution of a Koine; 6. Changes in the latter part of the second millennium BCE; 7. The eleventh to eighth centuries: from collapse to created chaos; 8. A brave new world: the new structure and characteristics of its emergence; 9. Developments after the rise of Macedon; 10. The Cretan difference; 11. The sweep of things: the larger picture of the evolution of Ancient Greece; 12. Greece is not alone: the small polity evolutionary characteristics of the ancient Greeks and other past cultures.