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This large volume publishes the Proceedings of the International Workshop Identifying Changes held in Istanbul in 2002 and includes 25 papers which approach the Bronze to Iron Age transition primarily from an Anatolian perspective. Drawing on archaeological material from Anatolian sites, compared and contrasted with that of neighbouring areas such as Cyprus, Crete, Greece and the Pontic and Caucasus, the contributors assess the nature and chronology of 2nd millennium BC cultural change. The papers reflect the major contribution that the natural sciences can make to this question, the need for more research into regional peculiarities and interactions, the need to track population movements and migrations, to investigate the pace of change and evidence for continuity from one artifically labelled period to another.