Troy, Lerma and Keos were the three sites he either help to conduct or lead the excavations. Located in the country of Turkey was the forefront for the Trojan War of epic poetry. His training presented him with the opportunity to witness the unveiling of the historic settlement of Thespios which was a low mound. In his early years working with Blegen, they uncover Neolithic fragment pottery (0.065m by 0.08m) (Caskey, 1951). These fragments help to identify the periods of Troy, in the early and late Neolithic period contained, “red, brown or black on buff and wares with incised, burnished and ribbed patterns” (Caskey, 1951). During the Early, middle and late Helladic period had “stone celts and rough or grinders, also numerous flakes of obsidian