Project Panormos: Research Aims in brief

Research ideas, aims and questions are assembled here.

General aims and questions

• Place the Panormos necropolis into landscape context

  • Q: How big is the necropolis?
  • Q: Would intensive methods have allowed us to identify the necropolis?
  • Q: What is the relationship between the necropolis, the sanctuary of Didyma, the harbour and the ‘sacred way’?

• Place the Bronze Age site of Tavşan Adası into landscape context

  • Q: Does Tavşan Adası have some kind of hinterland?
  • Q: How does the distribution of prehistoric sites and materials on this part of the peninsula fit into wider Aegean insular and/or Greek or Anatolian mainland patterns?

• Identify possible locations for the settlement and harbour associated with the necropolis

  • Q: Where is 'Panormos’ the port, and 'Panormos’ the settlement?
  • Q: Where was the harbour of Panormos in antiquity?

• Understand the diachronic status of Panormos as place

  • Q: Can we identify the source of pre-Archaic(/prehistoric) finds that turned up in excavation?
  • Q: What is the relationship of 'Panormos’ bay, the necropolis, and the settlement at Tavşan Adası

• Understand the long-term landscape history of this part of the Milesian peninsula

  • Q: How much has the topography and environment changed through time in this region?
  • Q: Are there any indicators of the environmental motivations behind the distribution of sites, settlements and otherfinds?
  • Q: What are the linear features identified in the satellite and aerial photography on the western and central parts of the Milesian peninsula? Can they be dated?

• Test methodologies/appropriateness of intensive techniques

  • Q: Can intensive tract walking provide useful information in an area which has suffered considerable recent development and building activity?

Priorities of the 2015 season

• Test methodologies/appropriateness of intensive techniques
• Place the Panormos necropolis into landscape context
• Understand the diachronic status of Panormos as place

Priorities of the 2017 season

• Identify possible locations for the settlement and harbour associated with the necropolis
• Place the Bronze Age site of Tavşan Adası into landscape context
• Understand the long-term landscape history of this part of the Milesian peninsula