The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia

Sharon R. Steadman is Associate Professor of Anthropology, SUNY Cortland; Director of the Brooks Museum at SUNY Cortland.Gregory McMahon is Associate Professor of History and Humanities, University of New Hampshire.

The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Anatolia has much to recommend it. Most of its chapters are well written, researched, and presented, and will serve their purpose of introducing readers to ancient Anatolia admirably. The project was an ambitious one, involving the co-ordination of fifty-six scholars based in more than ten different countries, and the finished volume represents a rich resource for students and established scholars alike.

• 1. Introduction: The Handbook of Ancient Anatolia PART I: The Archaeology of Anatolia: Background and Definitions2. The Land and Peoples of Anatolia Through Ancient Eyes3. A History of the Pre-Classical Archaeology of Anatolia4. Anatolian Chronology and Terminology PART II: Chronology and Geography 5. The Neolithic on the Plateau6. The Neolithic in Southeastern Anatolia7. The Chalcolithic on the Plateau8. The Chalcolithic in Southeastern Anatolia9. The Chalcolithic in Eastern Anatolia The Early Bronze Age10. The Early Bronze Age on the Plateau11. The Early Bronze Age in Southeastern Anatolia12. Eastern Anatolia in the Early Bronze Age The Middle Bronze Age13. The Karum Period on the Plateau14. Southeastern and Eastern Anatolia in the Middle Bronze Age The Late Bronze Age15. The Late Bronze Age in the West and the Aegean16. The Hittites on the Plateau17. Southern and Southeastern Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age The Iron Age19. The Iron Age of Southeastern Anatolia20. The Iron Age in Eastern Anatolia21. The Greeks in Western Anatolia PART III: Philological and Historical Topics 23. Luwian and the Luwians24. Urartian and the Urartians25. Phrygian and the Phrygians26. A Political History of Hittite Anatolia27. Anatolia:The First Millennium in Historical Context28. Monuments and Memory: Architecture and Visual Culture in Ancient Anatolian History PART IV: Thematic and Specific Topics 29. Eastern Thrace: The Contact Zone Between Anatolia and the Balkans30. Anatolia and the Transcaucasus: Themes and Variations ca. 6400-1500 BCE31. Indo-European and Indo-Europeans in Anatolia32. Troy in Regional and International Context33. Assyrians and Urartians34. The Greeks in Anatolia: From the Migrations to Alexander From Pastoralists to Empires: Critical Issues35. The Halaf Tradition36. Millennia in the Middle? Reconsidering the Chalcolithic of Asia Minor37. Interaction of Uruk and Northern Late Chalcolithic Societies in Anatolia38. Ancient Landscapes in Southeastern Anatolia39. Metals and Metallurgy40. The Hittite State and Empire from Archaeological Evidence41. The Hittite Empire from Textual Evidence PART V: Key Sites 43. Çatal Höyük: A Prehistoric Settlement on the Konya Plain44. Ilipinar: A Neolithic Settlement in the Eastern Marmara Region45. Arslantepe-Malatya: A Prehistoric and Early Historic Center in Eastern Anatolia46. Titris Höyük: The Nature and Context of Third Millennium B.C.E. Urbanism in the Upper Euphrates Basin47. Kültepe-Kanes: A Second Millennium Trading Center on the Central Plateau48. Key Sites of the Hittite Empire49. Ayanis: An Iron Age Site in the East50. Gordion: The Changing Political and Economic Roles of a First Millennium City51. The Stratigraphy of Kaman-Kalehöyük in Central Anatolia52. Sardis: A First Millennium Capital in Western Anatolia