Greece in the Stone Age -- Early Bronze Age Greece and the islands -- The opening of the Middle Bronze Age -- The shaft graves -- The Early Mycenaean Age -- Life in a Mycenaean palace -- Art in the palaces -- Society and history in the Mycenaean world -- The Mycenaean heritage -- Appendix I : the physical world -- Appendix II : note on Neolithic pottery -- Appendix III : building activities and destruction levels in the late Mycenaean world.