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- Puzzling transitions from the "Stone Age" to a higher civilization
- The stone age reappears in force, mixed with pottery of fine workmanship, and the whorls in great number
- Conjectures as to their uses probably Ex votos
- Priapi of stone and terra-cotta: their worship brought by the primitive Aryans from Bactria
- Vessels with the owl's face
- Boars' tusks
- Varied implements and weapons of stone
- Hand mill-stones
- Models of canoes in terra-cotta
- Whetstones
- The one object of the excavations, to find Troy.
On the Hill of Hissarlik, November 3rd, 1871.
My last communication was dated the 26th of October, and since then I have proceeded vigorously with 80 workmen on an average. Unfortunately, however, I have lost three days; for on Sunday, a day on which the Greeks do not work, I could not secure the services of any Turkish workmen, for they are now sowing their crops; on two other days I was hindered by heavy rains.
To my extreme surprise, on Monday, the 30th of last month, I suddenly came upon a mass of débris, in which I found an immense quantity of implements made of hard black stone (diorite), but of a very primitive form. On the following day, however, not a single stone implement was found, but a small piece of silver wire and a great deal of broken pottery of elegant workmanship, among others the fragment of a cup with an owl's head. I therefore thought I had again come upon the remains of a civilized people, and that the stone implements of the previous day were the remains of an invasion of a barbarous tribe, whose dominion had been of but short duration. But I was mistaken, for on the Wednesday the stone period reappeared in even
