219 pp, color figures, pb, in Turkish-English bilingual.
Archaeology is a learning process. The recent systematic archaeological excavations in Anatolia started transforming the history of the land we a re living in from myth to reality. Protohistory, contrary to popular belief, is not a general historical concept vvith a clear start and a clear ending. Which means Protohistory did not started and ended in a specific period. Neolithic , Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age a re the Protohistory of the Hittites; just as the Early Iron Age is the Protohistory of the Phrygians and Urartians. On the other hand, the Eastern Anatolian Plateau, vvhich lost it's literary tradition after the Urartians, lived through it's second Protohistorical Period in the Late Iron Age (600 - 200 BC). İn this book the author is revaluating the Second Protohistorical Period of the Eastern Anatolian Plateau in the light of present and contemporary archaeological evidence and historical sources; pointing out vvith proof that in order to find the roots in Eastern Anatolia one should look to the West.
