Arslantepe - Late Bronze Age. Hittite influence and local tradition in an Eastern Anatolian community

The book provides a detailed account of comprehensive sets of data and materials from the Late Bronze Age levels recovered at Arslantepe during the earlier excavations of the late-1960s and 1970s on the northern area and the most recent works in the south-western sector of the mound, reprocessing them as a whole and integrating all the information available. The purpose pursued was to reconstruct the historical picture of the site and the Upper Euphrates region during the Hittite expansion. The results obtained shed light on the nature of the contact established between the Hittite polity and its eastern periphery, revealing aspects of continuity or change at Arslantepe associated with different relations between the local community and the centralised Central Anatolian power.