Datu, Jana Nicole Dela Cruz, Gelli Llanes, Emmalie Claire
Nadal, Nessa A Lot More than 300: The Archaeology of Troy
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Troy One of the most famous archaeological sites of the world
Trojan War Homers The Iliad
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Trojan WAR Zeus, king of the gods, saw that the earth was
overpopulated He saw the Trojan War as an opportunity to depopulate
the earth
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Apple of Discord Athena, Hera, Aphrodite for the fairest Zeus
sent the goddesses to Paris as the judge Aphrodite offered Paris
the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen
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Helen and Paris cause an Epic War!
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Agamemnon King of Mycenae and brother of Helens husband
Menelaus Led an expedition of Greek troops to Troy because of Paris
insult
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The fight continues for 10 long agonizing years
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Trojan Horse Greeks create a large, wooden horse left as a gift
Soldiers slip out Trojans are massacred Troy is burned and women
enslaved
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Trojan War Historical event in the 13 th or 12 th century BC
Modern day Turkey Heinrich Schliemann Hisarlik, Turkey Distinguish
himself in the realm of archaeology
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TELL - human settlement built up over many years
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9 LAYERS Troy I 30002600 BC (Western Anatolian EB 1)EB Troy II
26002250 BC (Western Anatolian EB 2) Troy III 22502100 BC (Western
Anatolian EB 3 [early]) Troy IV 21001950 BC (Western Anatolian EB 3
[middle]) Troy V: 20th18th centuries BC (Western Anatolian EB 3
[late]) Troy VI: 17th15th centuries BC Troy VIh: late Bronze Age,
14th century BC Troy VIIa: c. 13001190 BC, most likely setting for
Homer's story Troy VIIa Troy VIIb 1 : 12th century BC Troy VIIb 2 :
11th century BC Troy VIIb 3 : until c. 950 BC Troy VIII: c. 70085
BC Troy IX: 85 BCc. AD 500 The archaeological site of Troy was
added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1998UNESCO World
Heritage
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Troy I (c. 3000-2550 BCE) - Small village settlement surrounded
by stone walls. - Dardanelles Dardanelles - Pottery and metal
Pottery
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Troy II (c. 2550-2300 BCE) - Larger buildings (40 m long) -
Mud-brick and stone fortifications with monumental gates.
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Troy III - Troy V (c. 2300-1750 BCE) - Most difficult period to
reconstruct - Period seems a less prosperous one but foreign
contact is further evidenced by the presence of Anatolian
influenced dome ovens and Minoan pottery. Minoan
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Troy VI (c. 1750-1300 BCE) - Period most visible today at the
site - Fortification walls demonstrate the prosperity but also
concern for defence during this period - Sections of the walls are
slightly offset every 10 m or so in order to curve around the site
without the necessity for corners (a weak point in wall defence)
wall - Candidate for the besieged city of Homers Trojan War - Or
could have been destroyed by an earthquake because only a single
arrowhead was found in this layer, and no remains of bodies
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Troy VI (c. 1750-1300 BCE) - Existence of a thriving wool
industry and the first use of horses - Pottery - Imported ceramics
from Crete, Cyprus and the Levant. Crete Cyprus Levant
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Troy VIIa (c. 1300-1180 BCE) and Troy VIIb (c. 1180-950 BCE) -
Increase in the size of the lower town and some reconstruction of
the fortifications - Both Troy VIIa and Troy VIIb were destroyed by
fires. - Bronze arrow heads, spear tips and sling shots found on
the site and some embedded in the fortification walls, suggesting
some sort of conflict. - Correlate with Herodotus dates for the
Trojan War Herodotus - Most cited candidate for Homers Troy
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Troy VIII and Troy IX (c. 950 BCE to 550 CE) - Sites of Greek
Ilion and Roman Ilium respectively. - The Persian King Xerxes
Xerxes - A Doric temple to Athena Julius Caesar in 48 BCE and
Emperor Augustus (reign 27 BCE - 14 CE) rebuilt much of the city
and Hadrian (reign 117-138 CE) also added buildings which included
an odeion, gymnasium and baths templeJulius Caesar Augustus Hadrian
- Emperor Constantine (reign 324-337 CE) even planned to build his
new capital at Troy and some construction work began until
Constantinople was chosen instead Constantine Constantinople - Over
time the site declined, most probably because the harbour had
silted up and the once great city of Troy was finally abandoned,
not to be rediscovered for another 1500 years.
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Excavation Campaigns
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Heinrich Schliemann Creator of Prehistoric Greek archaeology He
had a good idea where to start looking Greek myth the story of
Agamemnon History Troy was a wealthy city; it probably lay near a
coast http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/1320hist&civ/cha
pters/04troy.htm
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Schliemann & Troy Dug at the mound that lay near Hissarlik
Mound had many levels Large walls just like Troys He had found
Homers Troy Implications Homeric epic was not a myth but a history
Popularization of classical archaeology
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Problems Priams Treasure riches of Troy hurriedly buried in the
panic of the Greek siege Artistic styles of the collection pieces
covered a wide range of dates Schliemann dated it centuried prior
to the fall of Troy Cultural zenith may have also belonged to an
age long before Agamemnon Troy VIIA was a shabby resettlement
instead Many archaeological pieces didnt harmonize well with
literary evidence
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Drpfeld 1893 to Blegen 1938 Dorpfeld was Schliemanns former
assistant Uncovered a very different Troy Citadel from the late
Bronze Age Physical features matched the myth Myth mismatch A small
citadel, built for about a couple of hundred of people Blegen led
the next excavation and finished at 1938 For the next 50 years the
site was left untouched
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Korfmann 1988 Assembled a large, international team from wide
range of scientific disciplines There must have been more to Troy
than had been uncovered The citys gateways have to no way of being
secured shut Excavated a bigger area Magnetic scans -> reveal
buried walls, streets and buildings Uncovered a wide ditch cut into
the rock (late Bronze age) Marked the outer limit of the lower city
Estimate: Population of 4000-8000 people Korfmann may have just put
the nail in the coffin of the doubters Trojans lost the battle
based on slingshots in piles
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Pernicka 2006 Two outsized earthenware pots Bronze-Age
refrigerators A ditch and evidence of a gate Troys lower town was
much bigger 1.4km long, 4m wide, and 2m deep trench for defense
Troy must have been as big as 40 hectares for 10000 people
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2013-2014 Alyward To use the new technique of molecular
archaeology Turkey cancelled about 100 permits Aslam Led the first
Turkish team to excavate the site
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