Bleda Düring is a postdoctoral research fellow and lecturer at Leiden University. He has done extensive fieldwork in Turkey and currently directs the Cide Archaeological Project, surveying the western Turkish Black Sea region. The author of numerous articles in edited volumes and journals, such as Anatolian Studies, the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeological Dialogues, he is also the author of Constructing Communities: Clustered Neighbourhood Settlements of the Central Anatolian Neolithic.

'[This book is] a significant contribution to a much broader effort in the pursuit of a better understood prehistory of Asia Minor … I have no doubt that this book regardless of the more recent publications which cover broader geographic and thematic expanses … will be inspirational to new research into the prehistoric and preliterate periods of Anatolia in the years to come.' Jak Yakar, Bibliotheca Orientalis

• Introduction; 1. The land of Asia Minor; 2. Archaeology in Asia Minor; 3. Hunter-gatherers of the Epipalaeolithic and Mesolithic (20,000–6,000 BC); 4. Early farmers of the southern plateau (8,500–6,500 BC); 5. Neolithic dispersals (6,500–5,500 BC); 6. Millennia in the middle (5,500–3,000 BC); 7. Elites and commoners (3,000–2,000 BC); Conclusions.

Bleda Düring is a postdoctoral research fellow and lecturer at Leiden University. He has done extensive fieldwork in Turkey and currently directs the Cide Archaeological Project, surveying the western Turkish Black Sea region. The author of numerous articles in edited volumes and journals, such as Anatolian Studies, the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeological Dialogues, he is also the author of Constructing Communities: Clustered Neighbourhood Settlements of the Central Anatolian Neolithic.

'[This book is] a significant contribution to a much broader effort in the pursuit of a better understood prehistory of Asia Minor … I have no doubt that this book regardless of the more recent publications which cover broader geographic and thematic expanses … will be inspirational to new research into the prehistoric and preliterate periods of Anatolia in the years to come.' Jak Yakar, Bibliotheca Orientalis

• Introduction; 1. The land of Asia Minor; 2. Archaeology in Asia Minor; 3. Hunter-gatherers of the Epipalaeolithic and Mesolithic (20,000–6,000 BC); 4. Early farmers of the southern plateau (8,500–6,500 BC); 5. Neolithic dispersals (6,500–5,500 BC); 6. Millennia in the middle (5,500–3,000 BC); 7. Elites and commoners (3,000–2,000 BC); Conclusions.

Bleda Düring is a postdoctoral research fellow and lecturer at Leiden University. He has done extensive fieldwork in Turkey and currently directs the Cide Archaeological Project, surveying the western Turkish Black Sea region. The author of numerous articles in edited volumes and journals, such as Anatolian Studies, the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeological Dialogues, he is also the author of Constructing Communities: Clustered Neighbourhood Settlements of the Central Anatolian Neolithic.

'[This book is] a significant contribution to a much broader effort in the pursuit of a better understood prehistory of Asia Minor … I have no doubt that this book regardless of the more recent publications which cover broader geographic and thematic expanses … will be inspirational to new research into the prehistoric and preliterate periods of Anatolia in the years to come.' Jak Yakar, Bibliotheca Orientalis

• Introduction; 1. The land of Asia Minor; 2. Archaeology in Asia Minor; 3. Hunter-gatherers of the Epipalaeolithic and Mesolithic (20,000–6,000 BC); 4. Early farmers of the southern plateau (8,500–6,500 BC); 5. Neolithic dispersals (6,500–5,500 BC); 6. Millennia in the middle (5,500–3,000 BC); 7. Elites and commoners (3,000–2,000 BC); Conclusions.