Introduction: Middle and Late Helladic Laconia. Competing principalities? Corien W. Wiersma & Maria P. Tsouli   The Eurotas Valley, Laconia, in the 2nd Millennium B.C.: The Area of Vapheio –Palaiopyrgi in Context Emilia Banou, Anne P. Chapin & Louise A. Hitchcock   Southern Laconia in the Middle and Earlier Late Bronze Age: pottery from Pavlopetri and other sites William Cavanagh, Chrysanthi Gallou, Ilias Spondylis & Jon Henderson   The curious case of an island: A preliminary account on the Northern Kythera Bronze Age Landscapes Konstantinos P. Trimmis   The Ayios Vasilios Survey Project. A preliminary outline of the habitation history and size of Ayios Vasileios compared to other palatial settlements Corien W. Wiersma, Wieke de Neef, Sofia Voutsaki & Adamantia Vasilogamvrou   Preliminary remarks on the stratigraphy of the West Stoa from the new Mycenaean palace at Ayios Vasileios, Laconia Nektarios Karadimas, Adamantia Vasilogamvrou & Elina Kardamaki   A new Mycenaean settlement by the site Vrysika of Xirokambi Maria P. Tsouli, Adrianna Kotsi & Dimitris Vlachakos   Geraki in the Middle Helladic and Shaft Grave Periods Stuart MacVeagh Thorne & Mieke Prent   Geraki – from Middle to Late Helladic: ceramic evidence Joost Crouwel   Ceramic Evidence on the Transition to the Mycenaean Era in Southern Laconia: Prehistoric Pottery from Passavas near Gytheio Emilia Banou, Maria P. Tsouli & George Tsiaggouris   Throwing some light on the early history of the Mycenaean palace at Ayios Vasileios, Laconia: three early Mycenaean pottery deposits from Building Alpha Dora Kondyli & Iro Mathioudaki   The relationship between Central and South Laconia during the Early Mycenaean period: The pottery evidence Vasco Hachtmann & Sofia Voutsaki   The funerary landscape of Middle Helladic Laconia. The evidence from recent rescue excavations Maria P. Tsouli, George Tsiaggouris & Aphrodite Maltezou   A new cemetery of the Late Bronze Age at Pellana, in the northern part of the Eurotas valley Leonidas V. Souchleris   The North Cemetery at Ayios Vasilios: austerity and differentiation in the Early Mycenaean period Sofia Voutsaki, Ioanna Moutafi, Vasco Hachtmann & Michael Dee   Construction, destruction, reconstruction: the architecture of the built tomb of the North Cemetery at Ayios Vasileios, Laconia Yannick de Raaff, Sofia Voutsaki, Theo Verlaan & Gary Nobles   Permanence and becoming. A study into the role of labour investment in processes of social change and the creation of meaning in the North Cemetery at Ayios Vasileios Youp van den Beld   Afterword Oliver Dickinson