İzmir & the Peninsula: Olive oil in two periods
At [Klazomenai](/en/yer/klazomenai), olive-oil workshops dated to the final quarter of the sixth century BCE connect production with the city’s prosperity. The date anchors this evidence in the late Archaic period.
4 narratives and 7 place records connect to this discovery world through thematic and geographic relationships.
Four gateways into this world
- Produce and geography — The natural settings of olives, grapes, figs, grain, herbs, fish and dairy.
- Production and labour — Knowledge accumulated in vineyard, mill, bakery, dairy, market and home kitchen.
- Season and harvest — When, where and through which rhythm a product reaches the table.
- Migration and table memory — Traces left by moving communities in recipes, techniques and table habits.
Other discovery worlds
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Story and event network
- From the Edremit Gulf to the Dikili Islands: Adramytteion, the Gömeç Olive Plain, and Kalem Island
- Olives, Wine, and Prophecies of Ionia: The İzmir Peninsula from Klazomenai to Teos and Klaros
- Klazomenai Archaic Olive Oil Press and Industrial Production Revolution (6th c. BCE)
- From Ulamış Mills to Birgivi Madrasa and Dağkızılca Aqueducts: Karakılçık Wheat, 1563 Ottoman Center, and Nif Mountain Bridges
Connected cultural inventory
- Dikili Bademli, Kalem Island, and Ancient City of Kane
- Klaros Sanctuary of Apollo Clarios
- Ancient City of Klazomenai and Urla İskele
- Ödemiş Birgi İmam-ı Birgivi Madrasa and Graveyard
- Seferihisar Ulamış Village and Historic Karakılçık Wheat Stone Mills
- Ancient City of Teos and Sığacık
- Torbalı Dağkızılca Village Nif Mountain Aqueducts and Stone Arch Bridge