Ancient Turkey

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.

'This is the volume those of us who teach and study the archaeology of Turkey have been waiting for. At last, in one superbly presented, elegantly illustrated, meticulously researched and lucidly written volume we have a rich and innovative overview of the archaeology of Turkey from the Palaeolithic to the Persian conquest. This highly readable volume, packed with detail and insight, will go straight to the top of my reading lists for courses dealing with Turkey specifically and for the ancient Near East more broadly. There has never been a better introduction to the pre-classical archaeology of Turkey.' – Roger Matthews, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology, University College London, UK"This reviewer . . . feels deeply grateful for this indispensable companion to Ancient Turkey, and concurs with the praise given by Roger Matthews: 'this is the volume [we] have been waiting for.' " -Thomas Zimmerman, Faculty of Humanities and Letters, Department of Archaeology, Bilkent University, Turkey, Antiquity

• 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)