Introduction -- Earliest arrivals : the Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic, 1,000,000-9600 BC -- A new social order : Pre-pottery Neolithic, 9600-7000 BC -- Anatolia transformed : from Pottery Neolithic through Middle Chalcolithic, 7000-4000 BC -- Metalsmiths and migrants : Late Chalcolithic and the Early Bronze Age, ca. 4000-2000 BC -- Foreign merchants and native states : Middle Bronze Age, 2000-1650 BC -- Anatolia's empire : Hittite domination and the Late Bronze Age, 1650-1200 BC -- Legacy of the Hittites : southern Anatolia in the Iron Age, 1200-600 BC -- A kingdom of fortresses : Urartu and eastern Anatolia in the Iron Age, 1200-600 BC -- New cultures in the west : the Aegean coast, Phrygia, and Lydia, 1200-550 BC.