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Cilt 5, Sayı 24  Yaz II 2016  (ISSN: 2146-9903, E-ISSN: 2147-3056)
Eberhard ZANGGER, Serdal MUTLU

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1473087890 THE LUWIANS: STUDIES ON AN ANATOLIAN CIVILIZATION

A catalogue of Middle and Late Bronze Age sites in western Asia Minor is currently established in the framework of a project supported by the University of Zurich. By the end of 2016, information about at least 340 sites will be available online and thus accessible to researchers and the general public. The sites are systematically registered for the first time and brought into context with rivers, lakes, arable floodplains, ore deposits, and trade routes. The sites’ coordinates have been entered into a Geographic Information System to analyze human-landscape interrelations. These settlements provide evidence that western Asia Minor was densely inhabited during the 2nd millennium BCE. A network of petty states and cities existed between the Mycenaean civilization on mainland Greece and the Hittite civilization in central Anatolia.

Keywords: The Luwians, Luwiya, Western Anatolia, Late Bronz Age, Sea Peoples