Anatolia and Armenians by Turkish Scholar Şevket Dönmez

By Levent Ağaoğlu

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Anatolia and Armenians. Great Exodus of the Halys Basin Iron Age community to the Eastern Anatolian Plateau.= Anadolu ve Ermeniler. Kizilirmak Havzasi Demir Çagi toplumunun Dogu Anadolu Yaylasi’na Büyük Göçü.

SEVKET DÖNMEZ

Published by Anadolu Öntarih Yayinlari, Istanbul, 2016

ISBN 10: 6058371805ISBN 13: 9786058371804

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 with 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, which lost it’s literary tradition after the Urartians, lived through it’s second Protohistorical Period in the Late Iron Age (600 – 200 BC).

In 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 with proof that in order to find the roots in Eastern Anatolia one should look to the West.