Troia (Troy) (39° 58’N, 26° 13’E) is located in northwestern Anatolia in the Turkish province of Çanakkale. The landscape surrounding Troia is dominated by low plateau ridges, alluvial plains that lie between them, the Karamenderes (Skamander) and the Dümrek (Simoeis) rivers that feed these plains, the Strait of Dardanelles, and the Aegean Sea. The site, also named Hisarlık in Turkish, was first investigated by Heinrich Schliemann in the 1870s. Fifty years after this initial phase of archaeological investigations, excavations in Troia were resumed by an international team under the direction of late Manfred Osman Korfmann in 1988. The Post-Bronze Age remains of the site have been investigated by a sub-team from University of Cincinnati under the direction of Brian Rose. The mollusk remains that are evaluated in this study were recovered during these “New Excavations” between 1989 and 2003. Excavations continue at present under the directorship of Ernst Pernicka. The Bronze Age layers roughly span a period of two millennia between ca. 3100 BC and 1200 BC, whereas the Post-Bronze Age period remains start around 750 BC and continue until the Byzantine period.

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