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Selected case studies and useful reading questions: what was found, how was it studied and what follows from the evidence?
The articles and guides here connect case studies with methods: layers and dating, critical reading, pottery, coins, inscriptions and raw materials. Choose a question, then follow the sources and related reading. Checking an abstract is never presented as reviewing an entire paper.
UNESCO's page on Aigai, the first capital of the Kingdom of Macedonia, joins burial mounds of which some date from the 11th century B.C. to a monumental palace of ca. 340 BC. What the page connects, what it leaves open, and the two tumulus counts it gives.
UNESCO dates the beginning of the development of the sanctuary and oracle of Apollo at Delphi to the 8th century BC and the growth of their influence over all of Greece to the 6th. Two centuries, two of the site's periods, and what the page does not say about either.
The Greek ministry's page on the Kerameikos in Athens describes a cemetery that expanded continuously from the sub-Mycenaean period (1100-1000 BC) and grew in the Geometric (1000-700 BC), a period the Met starts a century later. What the growth shows, and where its dates sit.
An Oxford Classical Dictionary entry, read here only in part, places Lefkandi's richest cemetery, Toumba, east of a monumental apsidal building of 50 by 13.8 m, dated to the mid-10th century BCE and earlier than any of its graves. What that allows, and what it does not.
UNESCO dates the beginning of the worship of Zeus at Olympia to the 10th century B.C. and the Olympic Games to 776 B.C.; the Met's timeline explains where 776 comes from. Two dates that fall on either side of the start of the Geometric period.
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