Elaborate what? Based on a copy and paste from Wikipedia?
Where are the archaeological remains of Pelasgians? If you do not answer my question, I will not waste any more time in this discussion with you.
Read the Archeology part above, I dont want to copy paste here again, it might not be much however as they were called Barbarian they might have not been the masters of buildings objects etc but there is a link as it is said on the sources!
Nevertheles the findings in short "
on the Athenian Acropolis and on other sites within Attica revealed Neolithic dwellings, tools, pottery and skeletons from domesticated animals (i.e., sheep, fish). All of these discoveries showed significant resemblances to the Neolithic discoveries made on the Thessalian acropolises of Sesklo and Dimini. These discoveries help provide physical confirmation of the literary tradition that describes the Athenians as the descendants of the Pelasgians, who appear to descend continuously from the Neolithic inhabitants in Thessaly.
Overall, the archaeological evidence indicates that the site of the Acropolis was inhabited by farmers as early as the 6th millennium BC.[93][Note 1]
In August and September 1926, members of the Italian School of Archaeology conducted trial excavations on the island of Lemnos. A short account of their excavations appeared in the Messager d'Athénes for 3 January 1927.
The overall purpose of the excavations was to shed light on the island's "Etrusco-Pelasgian" civilization. The excavations were conducted on the site of the city of Hephaisteia (i.e., Palaiopolis) where the Pelasgians, according to Herodotus,
surrendered to Miltiades of Athens. There, a necropolis (c. 9th-8th centuries BC) was discovered revealing bronze objects, pots, and more than 130 ossuaries. The ossuaries contained distinctly male and female funeral ornaments.
Male ossuaries contained knives and axes whereas female ossuaries contained earrings, bronze pins, necklaces, gold diadems, and bracelets.
During the 1980s, the Skourta Plain Project identified Middle Helladic and Late Helladic sites on mountain summits near the plains of Skourta in Boeotia. These fortified mountain settlements were, according to tradition,
inhabited by Pelasgians up until the end of the Bronze Age. Moreover, the location of the sites is an indication that the Pelasgian inhabitants sought to distinguish themselves "ethnically" (a fluid term[97]) and economically from the Mycenaean Greeks who controlled the Skourta Plain.
Who were the
‘Pelasgians’ archaeologically?
Herodotus mentioned Pelasgian building activity which might be linked with the Early Helladic II period.
Lerna was the capital of the Peloponnesian proto-state in Early Bronze Age II Greece. A single ruler
[1] of the chiefdom
[2], lived in the palace (House of Tiles)
[3] and used seals as a sign of prestige or/and social standing
[4] at the Early Helladic II Lerna. He might be a ‘Pelasgian king’ of Pelasgian capital.
Thus the Lerna proto-state was formed under the Greek influence (Anatolian-related Lefkandi I culture) on the ‘Pelasgian’ Early Helladic II culture. The Ezero culture was common source of Troy I–II and Middle Minoan I Crete.
The ‘Pelasgian’ language as a
satem substrate in Greek is a great enigma. This language or a dialectal group/koine might be close to Thracian, Albanian, or Armenian (see special issue below).
However, the origin of the Greek language was a difficult enigma for archaeologists during many decades. The scholars attempted to identify archaeological cultures of common Paleo-Balkan language, its Greek ancestor and other related languages of the group.
Mythical ‘Pelasgians’ might be linguistic Paleo-Balkans, i. e. non-Greek peoples (Phrygians, Thracians, Albanians) but close relatives of the Greeks.
First of all, an ancient idea of Pelasgian-Etruscan relations and the Pelasgians in Lemnos (where Lemnian = archaic Etruscan inscriptions were found) is not confirmed: Etruscan words are not found in ‘pre-Greek substrate’ as well as Etruscan-Albanian and Etruscan-Thracian parallels are few.
According to an old hypothesis, Pelasgian might be similar to Thracian which might be compared with Albanian. If Phrygian
satem features (
azena ‘beard’ in Hesichius,
zemelos ‘earth’ in New Phrygian inscriptions) are late
[1] and Phrygian was
centum initially then ‘Pelasgian’ (as the source of
satem elements in Greek and Linear A, B) might be a Thracian dialect, close to Albanian and (lesser?) to Armenian.
The name of Lerna, where fortified House of the Tiles (Early Helladic II capital?) was built, might be related to
Λάρισα, ‘citadel’ (‘Pelasgian’ capital?), Thracian
rera ‘stones, stony ground’ (from an earlier
*lera), Albanian.
lerë, -a ‘stones, fallen stones’
[2],
λάρναξ, ‘box’,
Λάρνασσος ‘an old name of the
Πάρνασσος’
[3]
Pelasgian mystery solved
Dorians were hostile to more ancient Achaeans in Sparta as well as Achaeans considered previous relative people ‘barbarians’
Homer (Od. 19.172–177) mentioned Eteocretans, Cydonians, Pelasgians, Achaeans, and Dorians as inhabitants of Crete.
https://www.academia.edu/32124901/C...NDO_EUROPEAN_PALEO_BALKAN_PELASGIAN_AND_GREEK
So not all people or some groups of people has to have Archeology like say Mycenaeans had, and I think they were not big, as Homer mentioned in a small Crete lived
Eteocretans, Cydonians, Pelasgians, Achaeans, and Dorians
So back to you, Can you share references for ''Pelasgian is just a broad term used by the Greeks most likely to refer to several different populations''?