Plsgns #3 Wikipedia Pelasgians

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pelasgians artifacts in areas traditionally inhabited by the Pelasgians (i.e. Thessaly, Attica, and Lemnos). Archaeologists have described Pelasgian material culture as "Neolithic" (i.e. Sesklo and Dimini), "Middle Helladic" (i.e. Minyans) and even "Late Helladic" (i.e. Myceneans). The sites discovered so far possess material evidence indicating that the Pelasgians were either a proto-Greek tribe or at least a tribe akin to the Greeks. Overall "Pelasgian" has come to mean more broadly all the autochthonous inhabitants of the Aegean lands and their culture before the advent of the Greek language.[3] This is not an exclusive meaning, but other senses require identification when meant. Contents 1 Etymology 2 Literary evidence 2.1 Homer 2.2 Post-Homer poets 2.3 Genealogists 2.4 Hellanicus 2.5 Herodotus 2.6 Thucydides