An investigation of the Hittite cult implement called the kurša and its relationship to the breast iconography of Ephesian Artemis, to various Greek implements within the context of both Bronze-Age Anatolia and Indo-European cult, and to Aeolian myth as expressed in, especially, Argonautic tradition.

What counts as a significant innovation in human history, and what might we identify beyond the topics included in this book? In our concept of progress are we too influenced by the sense of our own era as the culmination of history, and can we avoid a presentist bias?

Exploration of the mythic concept of Aia, region of the rising sun, and its Hurrian and Luvo-Hittite background, its introduction to European Mycenaean Greeks by the Ur-Aeolians (Ahhiyawans) of Anatolia, and Aeolian Argonautic elaborations.

Discussion of Mycenaean Greek dialect variation as evidenced in the Linear B tablets, as well as an examination of the Attic-Ionic lexeme des-pótēs ‘house(hold)-master’ beside Normal Mycenean dos-pótās and Special Mycenaean da-koros ‘sweeper of the sacred-space’, matching Aeolic zda-kóros.

Exploration of Aeolian foundation traditions and the localizing of such traditions in both the eastern Aegean and Magna Graecia, and of the reflexivity and reciprocality of Aeolian ethnic identity that these mythic traditions entail.

Before the taming of horses, human lives and activities were limited by the speed of walking or boats, and without the wheeled vehicle transport of goods was restricted to human strength. All this would change when humans had finally established control of the horse, breeding, training and using this unique species, and in due course attaching it to haul chariot, cart and wagon.

An examination of recent work on the archaeology of a Greek presence in Late-Bronze-Age Asia Minor and typological investigation of linguistic exclaves, remote language communities characterized by linguistic persistence.

Just a century separates the practical origins of radio transmission in 1895 and the first smartphone in 1997: a century which saw the rapid extensions of experimentation into widespread applications. The wireless revolution would transform almost every aspect of human interaction and society, from finance and business to political propaganda and the control of crime. Communication ceased to be a matter of space, and wireless communication was a revolution with as important transformative impact as any in history.

A linguistic investigation of the Aeolic dialect group, examining linguistic traits of the Lesbian, Thessalian, and Boeotian dialects and those traits common to all three and thus traits belonging to ancestral Aeolic.

The ability to create, manage and transport fire transformed dark into light, cold into warmth, formed a focus for the camps of hunter-gatherer groups and allowed management of landscapes to encourage browsing animals, while cooking expanded available foodstuffs and provided more energy for the brain. The taming of fire brought dramatic and long-lasting changes to human society, with immense impacts on personal, social and economic life.

Investigation of the Bee-nymphs of Mt. Parnassus and the ancestral Indo-European strain and Anatolian strains of divination introduced into European Hellas by migrant pre-Aeolian communities.