Wanat Western Anatolıa In The Second Mıllennıum Bce Recent Developments And Future Prospects

This Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume Brings Together The Results Of A Diverse Group Of İnternational Researchers Conducting New Fieldwork, Applying New Approaches, And Making New İnterpretations About The Archaeology Of Middle And Late Bronze Age Western Anatolia. The Territory İs Huge, And İt Shows Considerable Regional Diversity. What Makes Western Anatolian Cultures Different From Their Neighbors? İs İt Possible To İdentify Discrete Subregions Clearly? And What Trajectories Of Local Cultural Change And Regional İnteraction Did They Follow? İn Addressing These And Many Other Questions,The Contributors To This Volume Provide Fresh Overviews Of Current States Of Research, Demonstrating Material And Chronological Synchronicities And/Or Gaps İn Knowledge That Stretch Across The Broad Territory Of Western Anatolia, Just As They Encourage Further Research İnto Defining Regional And Sub-Regional Specificities. Such Specificities Suggest That The Area Should Not Be Thought Of As One Monolithic Cultural Whole. Rather, They Allude To A Collection Of Related Yet Discrete Units,Whose Shared Commonalities Stem From Participation İn Overlapping Spheres Of Communication, Exchange, And Political İnteraction, Justifying Their Consideration Together İn A Volume Like This One.