“…Several Mediterranean harbour cities have been studied over the last years dealing with regard to landscape history, utilisation of harbour basins in general, as well as harbour-related facilities such as breakwaters and wharfs (e.g., Reinhardt & Raban, 1999;Brückner, 2003;Morhange et al 2003;Galili, Zviely, & Weinstein-Evron, 2005;Brückner et al, 2006;Kraft et al, 2007;Marriner & Morhange, 2007;Vött et al, 2007;Marriner, Morhange, & Saghieh-Beydoun, 2008;Bini et al, 2009;Algan et al, 2011;Kızıldag,Özdaş, & Ulug, 2012;Stanley & Bernasconi, 2012;Brückner et al, 2013;Hadler et al, 2013;Özdaş & Kızıldag, 2013;Seeliger et al, 2013). For most of human history-from the Stone Age to modern times-harbours have played important roles in terms of trade, travelling, maritime traffic and economic centres.…”