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SOME BALKAN AND DANUBIAN CONNEXIONS OF TROY.
PREHISTORIC research shows us that in the troubled section of Europe known as the Near East there existed as early as the neolithic period several culture groups which may tie classified under four heads as follows:
(1) The Aegean, Minoan-Mycenaean group.
(2) The Theesalian.
(3) The Upper Balkan and Damibian.
(4) The South Russian and allied groups.
The first of these is so familiar that we need only emphasize its co ity from the neolithic period through the Bronae Age, and the fact that, although eventually it was widely diffused through the Mediterranean from Spain to Cyprus and the coast of Palestine, in the Aegean area itself the northern limit on the west coast was Theasaly, which it reached n the L. M. period, and on the opposite shore the single site toward the north s Troy, where L. M. is contemporary with the Vlth city. The sporadic mpl n the coast from Thesealy to Troy are very late and apparently had little fl ce
The excavations by Messrs. Wace and Thompson in prehistoric The Wy which included considerably more than one hundred sites, have led thorn to differentiate alarge number of styles of pottery, including red monochrome, red or black incised, or else painted either light on dark or dark on light in many varieties.' The designs are predominantly rectilinear and more closely akin to the northern groups than to the Minoan.
These styles extend from the Neolithic, through ChaEcolithic to the Bronze Age, with gradual changes and no violent break until the close of L. M. Ill, This tallies with what had already been known of Minoan influence on the Thessalian coast.
The terracotta figurines are also quite different from the island or Aegean type and belong to the short and stumpy styles of the mainland.* The excavators believe that eieept for the Creto-Mycenaean vases (L M. II. and III.) there seems to be hardly any direct connexion between Thessaly and the south-eastern regions of the mainland,5 neither did the Cycladic (Island) styles have much influence.* Even when at the close of the Minoan period
i and Thompson, TVeAirfonc Tft«-
Kade otide Dark Age?...
PREHISTORIC research shows us that in the troubled section of Europe known as the Near East there existed as early as the neolithic period several culture groups which may tie classified under four heads as follows:
(1) The Aegean, Minoan-Mycenaean group.
(2) The Theesalian.
(3) The Upper Balkan and Damibian.
(4) The South Russian and allied groups.
The first of these is so familiar that we need only emphasize its co ity from the neolithic period through the Bronae Age, and the fact that, although eventually it was widely diffused through the Mediterranean from Spain to Cyprus and the coast of Palestine, in the Aegean area itself the northern limit on the west coast was Theasaly, which it reached n the L. M. period, and on the opposite shore the single site toward the north s Troy, where L. M. is contemporary with the Vlth city. The sporadic mpl n the coast from Thesealy to Troy are very late and apparently had little fl ce
The excavations by Messrs. Wace and Thompson in prehistoric The Wy which included considerably more than one hundred sites, have led thorn to differentiate alarge number of styles of pottery, including red monochrome, red or black incised, or else painted either light on dark or dark on light in many varieties.' The designs are predominantly rectilinear and more closely akin to the northern groups than to the Minoan.
These styles extend from the Neolithic, through ChaEcolithic to the Bronze Age, with gradual changes and no violent break until the close of L. M. Ill, This tallies with what had already been known of Minoan influence on the Thessalian coast.
The terracotta figurines are also quite different from the island or Aegean type and belong to the short and stumpy styles of the mainland.* The excavators believe that eieept for the Creto-Mycenaean vases (L M. II. and III.) there seems to be hardly any direct connexion between Thessaly and the south-eastern regions of the mainland,5 neither did the Cycladic (Island) styles have much influence.* Even when at the close of the Minoan period
i and Thompson, TVeAirfonc Tft«-
Kade otide Dark Age?...
