On the fringes of the Near Eastern civilizations: Proto-state units in the Aegean and West-Anatolian Bronze Age

Abstract

Based on theoretical models that were well summed up by W. Parkinson and M.

Galaty for the Aegean region, the paper will attempt to outline the possibilities and limits of defining proto-state units in Western Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age.

Keywords

• Troy
• Aegean
• Bronze Age
• protostates
• Anatolia