Tradition, Transition, and the Impact of the New in Neolithic Greece

Certain specific themes from Chris Mee’s work find echoes in the papers gathered here in his honour. Thus, his early work on Mycenaean finds in the Dodecanese and Anatolia are classic studies of the spread and adoption of cultural traits, such as architecture, burial forms or pottery, into an alien context. The survey on Methana, on the other hand, took a closely defined and culturally distinctive geographical territory, and reflected on its fluctuating history of identification and reaction to the larger powers that impinged on its history. Turning to his more recent articles, and to our excavations at Kouphovouno, we