@artemiscollective: Who were the Trojans? Part 4: Daily Life and Material Culture 🏺 | Homer gave us Trojans who speak Greek, worship Greek gods, and live in a world that feels too familiar to the Greeks fighting them. But what the Trojans left behind for us gave us something entirely different. Troy VI was a wealthy western Anatolian city with terraced streets, freestanding houses, textile production, imported goods, horses, and pottery that was overwhelmingly Anatolian. That doesn’t mean Troy was isolated from Greece. Quite the opposite. Mycenaean pottery made its way across the Aegean, and Trojan potters occasionally copied Greek shapes using their own clay. Troy sat in the kind of place where people and objects were constantly moving back and forth. But Greek influence was just that: influence. Interestingly, horse remains start appearing at Troy during Troy VI, and there is enough evidence to suggest horses were being traded there. Centuries later, Homer repeatedly calls the Trojans “horse-taming.” Does that mean the Iliad preserved a genuine Bronze Age memory of Troy? Maybe. The more we excavate Troy, the less it looks like a Greek city with different names and the more it looks like what its archaeology would suggest: an Anatolian city sitting directly between the Aegean and Anatolian worlds. Sources: Blegen, Carl W., John L. Caskey, and Marion Rawson. Troy: Excavations Conducted by the University of Cincinnati, 1932–1938. 4 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950–1958. Riehl, Simone, and Reinder Neef. "Southwest Asian Agriculture at Troy." In Troy and the Troad in the Second Millennium: Changing Patterns in Landscape Use. [Archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological data for Troy VI.] Pavúk, Peter. Troia VI Früh und Mitte: Keramik, Stratigraphie, Chronologie. Studia Troica Monographien 3. Bonn: Habelt, 2014. Korfmann, Manfred, ed. Studia Troica. Vols. 1–17. Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1991–2007. Kolb, Frank. "Troy VI: A Trading Center and Commercial City?" American Journal of Archaeology 108, no. 4 (2004): 577–614. [Spindle whorl and loom weight counts.] Barber, Elizabeth J. W. Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Rutter, Jeremy B. "Lesson 23: Troy VI." Aegean Prehistoric Archaeology. Dartmouth College. Rose, C. Brian. The Archaeology of Greek and Roman Troy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Bryce, Trevor R. The Trojans and Their Neighbours. London: Routledge, 2006. "Uncovering Troy: Interactive Map of the Ancient City." Archaeology Magazine. Homer. Iliad. Translated by Richmond Lattimore. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951. #ancienthistory #bronzeage #trojans #5MinutePlus #historytok

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