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To understand Troia’s role as a “trading city between two continents and seas” one needs to look at the connection between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, from both a geological and archaeological point of view.
In this contribution recent geological changes of this link are discussed. The new hypothesis of a catastrophic flooding of the Black Sea around 5500 b.c. has not been accepted by most authors working in the area. From 3000 b.c. onward, navigable passages, currents, and winds are similar to the present conditions. Archaeological evidence shows that contacts actually existed during the Bronze Age.
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Jablonka, P. (2003). The Link Between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean since the End of the Last Ice Age: Archaeology and Geology. In: Wagner, G.A., Pernicka, E., Uerpmann, HP. (eds) Troia and the Troad. Natural Science in Archaeology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05308-9_6
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