1. Introduction 2. Earliest Arrivals: The Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic (1,000,000–9600 BC) 3. A New Social Order: Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9600–7000 BC) 4. Anatolia Transformed: From Pottery Neolithic through Middle Chalcolithic (7000–4000 BC) 5. Metalsmiths and Migrants: Late Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age (ca. 4000–2000 BC) 6. Foreign Merchants and Native States: The Middle Bronze Age (2000–1650 BC) 7. Anatolia’s Empire: Hittite Domination and the Late Bronze Age (1650–1200 BC) 8. Legacy of the Hittites: Southern Anatolia in the Iron Age (1200–600 BC) 9. A Kingdom of Fortresses: Urartu and Eastern Anatolia in the Iron Age (1200–600 BC) 10. New Cultures in the West: Phrygia, Lydia and the Aegean Coast (1200–600 BC)
Biography
Antonio Sagona, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Melbourne. He is an elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London) and the Australian Academy of Humanities, and has carried out fieldwork in Turkey, the Caucasus, Syria, and Australia.
Paul Zimansky, Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. He has excavated in Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey. His academic specialties are Hittite and Urartian cultures, early cities, and the archaeology of writing.
'a well-written and easy-to-read volume that every student and scholar of ancient Anatolia ought to have on their bookshelf.' – Claudia Glatz, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
'...a much recommended purchase.' – Archeologie
