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
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