Greeks by way of Anatolia?

[Shilpi Misty Bhadra]

At 10:21 PM 2/7/01 -0600, you wrote:
>     The only thing I can think of, probably not exactly what you had in
>mind, is that reconstructions of what the Myceneans (or rather their nobles)
>looked like, on the basis of skulls, show them looking like they should be
>named "Slobodan".  In other words, their appearance is definitely Balkan, or
>at least central/north European, as opposed to south-European/Mediterranean.
>Where Anatolia falls in such schemes is not clear, but it is my impression
>1) that the population of Anatolia has not been subject to great external
>influences, and 2) that they bear no particular resemblance to the Balkan
>type.
>        I am pretty sure that there are many other objections to the idea
>that the pre-Greeks passed through Anatolia, though none occur to me at the
>moment.

>Dr. David L. White

Dear Dr. David White and others,

Another way of phrasing the issue is: what is the evidence of the Greeks
arriving from the north (i.e. Central Europe, the Balkans, Bulgaria,
Romania the FYOM (former republic of Macedonia - the country not the Greek
province), Albania, and Macedonia & Thessaly (in Greece). I am examining
the evidence of both theories of the Greeks arriving from the northern
Balkan states vs. Anatolia. My goal is to be as objective and fair as
possible. I have read Drews' the Coming of the Greeks, among other relevant
texts, but I am searching for more.

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Shilpi Misty Bhadra
University of Texas at Austin
Ancient History, Classics, and Humanities (focus: Indo-European Studies)
senior undergraduate
evenstar at mail.utexas.edu
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