Editing Troy (section)

=== Carl Blegen ===
[[Carl Blegen]], professor at the [[University of Cincinnati]], managed the site 1932–38. Wilhelm Dörpfeld collaborated with Blegen.<ref>Blegen, Carl W., "Excavations at Troy 1932", American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 431–51, 1932; Blegen, Carl W., "Excavations at Troy 1933", American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 223–48, 1934; Blegen, Carl W., "Excavations at Troy 1934", American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 6–34, 1935; Blegen, Carl W., "Excavations at Troy, 1935", American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 550–87, 1935; Blegen, Carl W., "Excavations at Troy, 1936", American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 17–51, 1937; Blegen, Carl W., "Excavations at Troy, 1937", American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 553–97, 1937; Blegen, Carl W., "Excavations at Troy, 1938", American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 204–28, 1939</ref> These archaeologists, though following Schliemann's lead, added a professional approach not available to Schliemann. He showed that there were at least nine cities. In his research, Blegen came to a conclusion that Troy's nine levels could be further divided into forty-six sublevels,<ref>{{harvnb|Allen|1995|p=259}}</ref> which he published in his main report.<ref>{{cite book | first=Carl W. | last=Blegen | title=Troy: Excavations conducted by the University of Cincinnati, 1932–1938 | publisher=Princeton University Press | year=1950 | url=https://ia801709.us.archive.org/32/items/in.gov.ignca.18601/18601.pdf}}</ref> A post hoc Correspondence Analysis of Blegen's pottery sequence showed a 100-year gap between Troy III and Troy IV. Combined with a similar analysis of the pottery sequences of Korfmann and Schliemann this suggests that for a time in the late Early Bronze Age occupation contracted to the western end of the citadel mound.<ref>Easton, Donald, and Bernhard Weninger, "A Possible New Bronze Age Period at Troy", Anatolian Studies, vol. 68, pp. 33–73, 2018</ref>