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The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the by Robert Drews

By Robert Drews

Whilst did the Indo-Europeans input the lands that they occupied in the course of ancient instances? And, extra particularly, while did the Greeks come to Greece? Robert Drews brings jointly the evidence--historical, linguistic, and archaeological--to take on those very important questions.

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B. l8 Basing his part of the article on work done at the turn of the century by Paul Kretschmer and August Pick,' 9 Haley listed the non-Greek place names of Greece, most of them being in east central Greece, the Peloponnese, Crete and the Aegean islands. He also showed that a surprising number of these place names (many of them ending in -nthos, -ssos, or -ndos) duplicated names in western Asia Minor, some rather far inland. In his half of the article, Blegen preceded to match Haley's findings with the archaeological record of these areas, looking for a period during which a rough homogeneity in pottery and other artifacts obtained from western Asia Minor through Crete and the southeastern areas of the Greek mainland.

This place he found in the Pripet Marshes, or the Rokitno swamp, between the Pripet, the Dnieper, and the Beresina rivers. 2. V. G. Childe, The Aryans (New York: Knopf, 1926). 3. G. " Anthrofos 30 (1935): 803—23; "Das gezahmte Pferd im alten Orient," Anthropos 31 (1936): 364-94, and "Der Zug des gezahmten Pferdes durch Europa," Anthropos 32 (1937): 105-46. 26 Linguistics and Archaeology in Chapter Six) persuaded most Indo-Europeanists that the homeland of the Indo-Europeans could not have been in northern Europe.

R. A. Grassland, CAM i, 2: 828. 21. Archaeological work in this area has barely begun, but what is known suggests a chalcolithic culture lasting at least until the end of the third millennium and perhaps well into the second. James Mellaart notes little more than the obscurity of the area in the third millennium (CAH i, 2: 367—69; on page 690 of the same volume, Mellaart indicates that even less is known of eastern Anatolia in the first half of the second millennium). After Mellaart's chapters went to press (his bibliographies include nothing written after 1962), a survey of the relevant material was presented by T.

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