This volume presents a study of local landscape histories in the Kahramanmarash valley-a previously understudied, but pivotal, crossroads along the Syro-Anatolian frontier. It provides a detailed outline of the myriad ways that the ancient residents of this region between Syria and Anatolia made it their home for over seven thousand years.

A final report on surveys in the Kahramanmara? region of southeastern Turkey between 1993 and 2000 that several thousand years ago was removed from the centres of political power, pulled between Antioch to the south and the areas along the Euphrates to the east. It includes a record of settlement patterns from the Neolithic to the Is