Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . o the realm of archaeologicaltheory, and this book is confined to the statement of known facts asdisclosed by the excavations. 26o AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY progress was rendered possible only hy the sea. By thesea it lived, and when a stronger people coming fromthe North, and bringing with it the use of iron, dis-possessed the Aegeans of the exclusive control of theseaways, their power collapsed, and with it the greatcivilization of which we have described the smaller islands became what they really are—merebar
Ægean archæeology; an introduction to the archæeology of prehistoric Greece . o the realm of archaeologicaltheory, and this book is confined to the statement of known facts asdisclosed by the excavations. 26o AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY progress was rendered possible only hy the sea. By thesea it lived, and when a stronger people coming fromthe North, and bringing with it the use of iron, dis-possessed the Aegeans of the exclusive control of theseaways, their power collapsed, and with it the greatcivilization of which we have described the smaller islands became what they really are—merebarren rocks, incapable naturally of supporting anypopulation beyond that of a few fishermen and goat-herds ; and Crete itself sank back into the position itwas henceforth to hold, that of a little world justsufficient for itself, and incapable of holding furtherthe position of dominance which its geographicalposition had caused it to take at the beginning ofthings, and its sea-given prosperity had enabled it tohold through so many centuries of splendid Fig. 112.—Fresco of a goat (Late Myc. = ). From Aluseum. APPENDIX IV^ANY reference? to authorities have already been givenin the text, but the following short bibliography maybe useful. 1 General Works.—*Schuchhardt, Schliemanns Excavations(1893); *Tsountas-Manatt, The Mycenaean Age (1897);RiDGEVi^AY, The Early Age of Greece (1901); Hall, The OldestCivilization oj Greece (1901); *Burrows, The Discoveries inCrete (1907; 2nd edition, 1908); *I)ussaud, Les CivilisationsPrehelleniques dans le Bassin de la MerEgee (1910; 2nd edition,1914); *Boyd-Hawes, Crete the Forerunner of Greece (1909;1911); Mosso, Palaces of Crete (1907); Dawn of Mediter-ranean Civilization (1910, open to criticism); also the articlesof Evans and Hogarth on **Crete (Ancient) and **AegeanCivilization in the nth edition of the Encyclopaedia popular compilations are Lagrange, La Crete Ancienne(1908) an
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