Since the excavations at Franchthi Cave in the 1960s and 1970s, the possibility of finding a submerged Neolithic site in the Bay of Kiladha has been discussed. Initial research, based on marine geophysical survey and core sampling, brought contrasted results. Starting in 2012, new parts of the Bay were investigated, using different techniques and improved methods, such as geological-geophysical survey, further core sampling (including the finding of artefacts and anthropogenic indicators of a given date in the cores), shallow water ERT (with an adapted methodology), and underwater excavation. The combined evidence leads to a reconsideration of previous work, to the discovery of submerged structures directly off the cave, which might well be Neolithic walls, and points to the existence of two new submerged sites, one dating to the Neolithic, in the middle of the Bay, and the other to the Final Neolithic/Early Bronze Age I, at Lambayanna. The implications of these findings are discussed as well.

自从1960年代和1970年代在Franchthi Cave进行发掘以来，已经讨论了在基拉达湾发现淹没的新石器时代遗址的可能性。基于海洋地球物理调查和岩心采样的初步研究得出了相反的结果。从2012年开始，对海湾的新部分进行了调查，采用了不同的技术和改进的方法，例如地质-地球物理调查，进一步的岩心采样（包括在岩心中发现给定日期的人工制品和人为指标），浅水ERT （采用改进的方法）和水下挖掘。综合的证据导致人们重新考虑了以前的工作，发现了洞穴附近直接存在的淹没结构，这很可能是新石器时代的墙，并指出存在两个新的淹没地点，其中一个可以追溯到新石器时代，在海湾中部，另一处是兰巴延纳（Lambayanna）最终的新石器时代/早期青铜时代I。还讨论了这些发现的含义。