Originally Posted by
paullus
And I'll go ahead and add that, at least as far as I've been told by the Archaic historians and archaeologists I know, "Pelasgian" is a vague term used nowadays either a) in a literary sense, referring to mythologies of ethnic descent (as in Hall's work), or b) in a historical sense, referring generally to people around the area that we now identify as Greece. Its not connected with any specific archaeological culture, as far as I know, so I'm not sure you'll find any credible historical/archaeological work that tells you much about them. But I could be wrong, I am by no means an Archaic specialist.
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