Pre-Hittite Bronze Age people of central Anatolia who spoke the non-Indo-European Hattian language and were gradually absorbed by the expanding Hittites.
Gradually absorbed into Hittite political and cultural order between c. 2000 and c. 1700 BCE as Indo-European-speaking Hittites expanded through central Anatolia, with the Hattian population assimilated and their religious traditions incorporated into Hittite religion.
Standard reference on the Hittite world, with substantial coverage of the pre-Hittite Hattian cultural substrate.
A reliable, readable introduction to the Bronze Age peoples of Anatolia and the Hittite world, the milieu of the Hattians, Arzawa, Kizzuwatna, and Kaska.