The Earliest Hellenic Art and Civilization and the Argive Heraeum (Analecta Gorgiana)

[from Introduction]The excavations and discoveries in Hellenic lands within the last twenty-five years have opened, and are constantly opening out new fields of observation and study concerning the origin and development of the earliest Greek civilization and art. The great mass of new material which has thus been furnished to the archaeologist has not yet reached complete elaboration even in the first stage, and still remains far removed from final systematic classification, not to speak of the ultimate light which it will throw upon our knowledge of classical history and archaeology as a whole....

In this paper Waldstein suggests a rough dating scheme for artifacts dated to the period between the Mycenean and Archaic periods, moving from a Homer-centric system to one based on material culture.

THE EARLIEST HELLENIC ART AND CIVILIZATION AND THE ARGIVE HERAEUM