ABSTRACT
At Argos, the community on the Aspis continued to bury its dead in the cemeteries on the Deiras col, which had been used before the great wave of destruction, but this practice did not last for any great length of time. Here are the agora and the chief temple of Apollo, and the monuments and sacred spots described by Pausanias. In an area excavated by the French archaeologists near the theatre, traces of habitation were found, dating back to the phase that followed the collapse of Late Bronze Age civilization, and apparently occupied for some length of time. The Aspis community appears to fade away at the time that the new Dorian community first develops. It is not unreasonable to suppose that this continuity required also some continuity of population. That the non-Dorians were politically subordinate to the Dorian settlers is probable in view of later Argive history, but beyond this supposition it is impossible to reconstruct the early situation.
