Introduction
Anatolia, literally “the land of the sunrise” and constituting the Asiatic part of modern Turkey, is a very important peninsula for the birth and transmission of various cultures and peoples (Fig. 1). During the Hellenistic and Roman periods (roughly 300 BCE to 300 CE for present purposes), many cultures such as the Persians, Macedonians, Greeks, and Romans passed through Anatolia and had constant contact with indigenous peoples like the Lydians, Lycians, Phrygians, Pisidians, Cappadocians, and Paphlagonians. The encounter of the new cultures with indigenous peoples paved the way for new transformations and developments in Anatolia’s cultural history, which can be defined as “acculturation.” The archaeologists of the Hellenistic and Roman periods of Anatolia have been investigating, in the first 12 years of the twenty-first century, this phenomenon of encounter among different cultures and have been posing new scientific questions.
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Sayar, M.H. (2014). Hellenistic and Roman Anatolia, Archaeology of. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1120
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