The case for southern Caucasia
In a second difference from Penner’s reconstruction I will add the likelihood that
most of the military men who took over the Laurion mines and other parts of Greece
came from southern Caucasia. Without much care and success I argued for that
probability in my Coming of the Greeks, but the argument has since been
strengthened in several quarters and I will devote the rest of this chapter to making
the case again. We have striking—although limited—archaeological evidence
pointing to a south Caucasian origin for at least much of the force that came ashore
The question of origins 219Figure 7.1Elevation map of southern Caucasia, from Smith 2006, p. 174, Figure 1.
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