This book was written because of the continuing dearth of general, accessible, and up-to-date surveys on ancient Turkey before the Classical period. While there are a number of exce llent period- and site-specific works, students and teachers have faced the persistent difficulty of reading and synthesizing an enormous and often bewildering amount of literature before they can formu late a general narrative on the principal periods and areas of innovation and culture. The task of covering in one volume so vast a topic-from the earliest arrivals to the end of the Iron Age-is daunting to say the least, but we have decided to take the plunge and divided the task