Harbor areas at ancient Troy: Sedimentology and geomorphology complement Homer's Iliad
- 1Department of Geology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
- 2Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota 55812, USA
- 3Edebiyat Facültesi, Ege Üniversitesi, 35100 Bornova, İzmir, Turkey
- 4School of Classics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Abstract
For at least two thousand years scholars have debated the location of Troy and the events and geographic features described in Homer's Iliad. Geologic evidence is used to present a series of maps of the Trojan plain that show the geomorphic changes over the past six millennia. The geologic evidence correlates very well with the relevant Homeric geography.
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- Accepted October 29, 2002.
- Received May 16, 2002.
- Revision received October 22, 2002.
- Geological Society of America
