The period immediately following the collapse of the Mycenaean palaces is one of the most interesting in the history of Greece. Despite years of research and debate the relative and absolute dating of the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age remains elusive. As this group of papers shows, the debate very much rests on pottery evidence. In this volume, the Proceedings of the international workshop held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences at Vienna in 2001, contributors present evidence from new sites and regions as well as unpublished material from old excavations including pottery deposits and sequences from Kynos, Aigeira/Achaia, the Athenian acropolis, Mycenae, Perati, and from the island of Naxos.