Worlds beneath the waves: Seeking the submerged story of Liman Tepe

It started with a problem on dry land. In the 1990s, a team of archaeologists led by the late Hayat Erkanal were investigating a promising prehistoric and Classical settlement on the Aegean coastline of western Anatolia. Structural remains could be traced back to the Middle Chalcolithic, or Copper Age, in the 5th millennium BC, while finds indicated that this bustling settlement, now known as Liman Tepe, enjoyed enviable maritime links with the wider Aegean world. Although the fortunes of Liman Tepe waxed and waned over the centuries, with the site seemingly undergoing several spells of abandonment, it eventually became the Classical Ionian city of Klazomenai, and was later absorbed into the