On one of the Troia Project’s maps of the excavations, the size of the yellow circles indicates relative concentrations of Bronze Age surface finds. The known defensive walls of the city are in red.
On one of the Troia Project’s maps of the excavations, the size of the yellow circles indicates relative concentrations of Bronze Age surface finds. The known defensive walls of the city are in red.
One of the oddities in the article was that "Part of the controversy over both Schliemann’s and Blegen’s ideas was that, until the 1930’s, there was scant knowledge of adjacent Anatolian civilizations; there were no written references to Troy from the Late Bronze Age. It was then that Swiss scholar Emil Forrer deciphered newly discovered writings from the Hittite Empire to the east."
Blegen did start his excavations in 1932 (1932-1938), but Forrer announced his finding of obvious references to Mycenaean Greece in 1936. Obviously, such references should be expected, not rejected.
FWIW, I disagree with Blegen's view that VIIa was "the" city, agreeing with Dorpfeld that VI was it.