"Contents include: Introduction ( K Walsh ); Palynology ( S Bottema ); A database for the palynological recording of human activity ( V Andrieu, E Brugiapaglia, R Cheddadi, M Reille and J-L de Beaulieu ); The contribution of anthracology ( J-L Vernet ); Dendroclimatology ( F Guibal ); Techniques in Landscape Archaeology ( A G Brown ); L'apport de la micromorphologie des sols ( N Fedoroff ); Reconstructing past soil environments ( R S Shi ..."
"In order to even hypothesize how the now-destroyed landscape might have
looked like in prehistoric times, one has to apply methods reminiscent of those
used in forensic sciences. In previous years Ilhan Kayan, Manfred Korfmann,
George Rapp and John C. Kraft have unequivocally favoured the idea that the
port of Troy was located in Besik bay (Korfmann 1991: 19; Kraft et al., 1982:40;
Rapp and Kraft, 1994: 76), although there never wa ..."
"... its entrance (Fig. 10.4). This idea was revived by Zangger, who argued that the
Kesik marsh may well hide the long soughtafter port of bronze age Troy,
including the 'naval station' of the Greeks during the Trojan War (Zangger, 1992:
211). The excavator rejected this theory, alluding to 'strong arguments' from
ancient philologists (Korfmann, 1993a: 45). Yet the ancient philologist John V.
Luce was sufficiently impressed to pres ..."