Ways of Life in the Megapolis: Miletus in a long term perspective

土耳其西海岸的米利都是古代地中海的一个主要城市。它是考古学聚落研究的重要场所。该网站使我们能够典型地跟踪一个非常大的和广泛联系的城市的发展。然而，以前的研究集中在青铜时代和古代米利都的部分地区，或者是后古典城市的纪念性中心。当前项目的目标是从青铜时代晚期到罗马帝国末期（约公元前1400年至公元400年）的长期角度，打开远离中央公共空间的定居发展动态。在ENS巴黎和UHH汉堡之间的合作中，将在三个层面上探索大都市的特定生活方式：房屋及其邻近地区，总体定居结构以及与周边地区的关系。由于城市地区缺乏现代化的发展，存在着应用广泛的跨学科考古方法的先决条件，这取决于各自的问题，允许有区别地获得发现。根据前几年在米利都进行的地球物理调查的结果，我们将在整个城市进行有针对性的探测，以重建住区发展的空间和时间动态，并挖掘详细的社区背景，作为私人空间的案例研究。在分析发现的材料时，我们将考虑到整个房屋的库存以及动物和植物遗骸。从旧挖掘的房屋环境的数据将提供更多的信息。地理信息系统将综合各种数据集，这些数据集可以得到现有地貌研究成果的补充，包括重建米利都海岸线和实际正在建设的数字地形模型。所有数据都通过地理服务器提供，项目参与者、感兴趣的同事和公众可以选择分级访问。该项目的成果将以一本内容广泛的专著的形式出版。总的来说，该项目将有助于扩大和具体化我们对米利都为例的古代大都市生活方式的想法。

Miletus on the west coast of Turkey was a major megapolis of the ancient Mediterranean. It represents an important place for archaeological settlement research. The site allows us to trace exemplarily the development of an extremely big and widely linked city. However, previous investigations were concentrated either on parts of Bronze Age and Archaic Miletus or on the monumental centre of the post-classical city. The goal of the current project, on the reverse, is to open up the dynamics of settlement development away from the central public spaces in a long-term perspective from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Roman Empire (around 1400 BCE to 400 CE). In cooperation between ENS Paris and UHH Hamburg, the specific way of life in a megapolis will be explored on three levels: The houses with their immediate neighbourhood, the overarching settlement structure, as well as the relationships to the surrounding area. Due to the lack of modern development of the city area, excellent prerequisites exist for the application of a broad, interdisciplinary spectrum of archaeological methods, which, depending on the respective problems, allows a differentiated access to the findings. Based on the results of the geophysical surveys undertaken in Miletus in previous years, we will make targeted soundings throughout the city to reconstruct the spatial and temporal dynamics of settlement development, and we will excavate detailed neighbourhood contexts understood as case studies of private space. In the analysis of the find material, we will take into account the entire house inventory as well as animal and plant remains. Data from older excavations of house contexts will provide additional information. A GIS will integrate the various sets of data, which can be supplemented by the already existing results of geomorphological research with its reconstruction of the Milesian coastline and a digital terrain model that is actually under construction. All data is provided via a geoserver with graduated access options for project participants, interested colleagues and the general public. The results of the project will be published in the form of an extensive monograph. Overall, the project will help to expand and specify our idea of the ways of life in an ancient megapolis on the example of Miletus.