Gathering of academic papers

Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new?
it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Institution must be erased

The following papers are written in a purely academic format. It has been my first attempt, which I undertook in the spirit of a lingo game to play. I do not focus on chronology, nor on battle details. The Doric invasion hypothesis is cat litter. What I did instead was to reconstruct aspects of these ancient civilisations on the Mediterranean shores by their dedication to a specific craft of apparently frivolous significance (shellfish dye, scented oils, medical practice, goldwork, etc.). I do never exclude that these techniques could date back to older times than what the archaeological evidence at hand suggests, wield different meanings or a broader extension. It is whatever. The absence of proper textual evidence is a recurrent motif. Knowledge of prehistory is partial and all knowledge in all fields is but a construction. Only one of the essays is not on prehistory (4000-1100 BC), but on the classical Greek culture (V-IV centuries BC). The topics I have chosen are all of great interest to me, but I still believe the straitjacket of the academic requirements could not do them justice. Word counts, bruteforced citation indexes, prose might kill all the enjoyment of the text. (Moreover, my English will eternally be a pidgin.) Some friends are aligned with what I feel, would only take the schools as a playground or a bit of frankincense, and others told me with relief “Broo I finally understood a text u typed”.

Archaeological research in Athens:


Do you need to go to school?