ABSTRACT
Opening his summary of archaeological progress in western Asia Minor during the first half of the 1980s, Stephen Mitchell remarked:
A Rostovtzeffian vision of a social and economic archaeology of Asia Minor still remains far in the distance, but the detailed work currently being undertaken at several West coast sites, seeking to relate buildings to the materials from which they were constructed, to the workshops of skilled men which produced them, and to the ultimate purposes which they were designed to serve, brings the vision closer to fulfilment.
