The Ionian Islands in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age (2nd ed.)

The central Ionian Islands occupy a special geographical position in the eastern Mediterranean. On the one hand they face and are in close proximity to the western Greek mainland and on the other they are connected with the western Balkans and the central Mediterranean through the Ionian and Adriatic seas. Although, with the exception of Corfu, they were integrated in the Aegean cultural sphere of influence throughout the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, their marginal position and insularity also