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Book: Citadel and Cemetery in Early Bronze Age Anatolia

Chapter: Four Proto-histories

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.24588

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Chapter 1 introduces the geographical and chronological scope of the study, and examines previous research on the topic through a discussion of four Early Bronze Age ‘proto-histories’ (of Troy, Alacahöyük, Kültepe, and Indo-Europeans). The discussion is critical of the historicist approaches that have shaped current understanding of the Early Bronze Age in Anatolia, and introduces a political-economic and anthropological framework to arrive at a synthetic and more holistic understanding of this region and time period.

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