- The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age. Continuity and Change Between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries BC by Oliver Dickinson (2006). This is the sequel to Dickinson’s book on the Bronze Age, and covers the entirity of the Greek Dark Ages down to ca. 700 BC.
- Archaic Greece: the Age of Experiment by Anthony Snodgrass (1980). A classic book: though it has been superseded in some ways, this can probably be regarded as the foundation of the current orthodoxy on the period.
- Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence, edited by Nick Fisher (1998). A collection of groundbreaking chapters by leading scholars, reshaping our view of the Greek world in this formative period.
- Greece in the Making, 1200-479 BC by Robin Osborne (1996, 2nd edition 2009). One of the definitive surveys of Dark Age and Archaic Greece.
- A Companion to Archaic Greece edited by Kurt Raaflaub and Hans van Wees (2009). A thorough guide with over thirty chapters written by world experts.
- A History of the Archaic Greek World: ca. 1200-479 BCE by Jonathan Hall (2007, 2nd edition 2014). Another of the definitive histories of Dark Age and Archaic Greece, by one of the greatest living historians of the period.