Abstrakt
Prehistoric Troy was usually conceived as consisting of two major stages: Troy I-V and Troy VI-VII, corresponding roughly to the local EBA and the MBA/LBA, respectively. Notwithstanding certain logic behind such a division, it is sometimes necessary to treat Troy as a single body of evidence, where all data become interrelated to some degree.Whereas Troy I and II levels within the EBA citadel were still accessible to Korfmann's team for a new investigation, Troy III to V levels were potentially available only in a handful of areas, among others in the so called pinnacle in square E4/5.Thepresent paper discusses the previously presented dating for its individual strata, sets them into a wider intra-site context and suggests a considerable re-dating of the upper ones.Thepreserved pinnacle sequence thus finishes in early Troy IV and no later.
In addition, Dörpfelds dating of strata outside the EBA citadel is also being reassessed, resulting in shifting the EBA sequence there to a "discovery" of so far unknown Early andMiddle Troy VI contexts. The importance of Dörpfeld's profiles lays in their being the only evidence we have when attempting a holistic phase-by-phase reconstruction of the site construction dynamics.