<P>This volume investigates small and large networks of contacts within and across the Aegean and nearby regions, covering periods from the Neolithic until Classical times (6000-323 BC). It explores the world of technologies, crafts, and archaeological 'left-overs' in order to place social and technological networks in their larger economic and political contexts. Examining ways of production, transport/distribution, and consumption, this book covers a chronologically large period in order to expand our understanding of wider cultural developments inside the geographical boundaries of the Aegean and its regions of contact in the east Mediterranean.&nbsp;</P>