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Ancient artifacts that have been discovered in Aiani prove that the ancient Macedonian society spoke and wrote in Greek..
Which proves and furthermore supports the evidence towards the fact that Ancient Macedonians were an Ancient Greek tribe.
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"In the necropolis, tens of vases have been discovered.
These are of the Macedonian black and white pottery,
which was made and used by the tribes of North-West Greece.
The Macedonians were part of this group.
The pottery of Aiani came from the local workshops;
and it's the oldest piece of black and white pottery discovered so far.
It was found with Mycenae sherds and can therefore certainly be dated from the
fourteenth (14th) century BC.
Aiani has given us some of the oldest samples of writing
in Macedonia. On small pieces of pottery were let alike inscriptions.
We can also make out the name of the dead person: "Pleona"
on an archaic mausoleum pillar. The name of the Goddess or mortal: "Themida"
is carved on the base of a classical jar, while, from the 5th century BC a bill
has survived. An inhabitand of Elimioti carved it in decimals on a piece of pottery.
It is clear that these early inscriptions found in Aiani
prove that the ancient Macedonian
Hellenistic society spoke and wrote in Greek.
The remains at Aiani were a major discovery in the region of Upper Macedonia,
because there was very little written information about it and what there was,
was indirect. The discoveries which have been made up to now
have given a new dimension to the historical phase of Hellenism in this area,
overturning once and for all
the commonly accepted belief that Upper Macedonia was both
socially and culturally isolated from the rest of ancient Greece.
On the contrary, by the 6th century BC Hellenism in Upper Macedonia was already
at a high economic, artistic and cultural level.
The inhabitants of this area lived in well-planned cities
and not in nomadic groups depending on farming and animal husbandry."
Macedonians were Hellenes from the very start. As Greeks as any other Greek tribe.
wtfdudesignmeup 4 years ago 11
5***** THE MORE the archaeologists dig the more it hurts!
sath8 3 years ago 9