A loosely affiliated Bronze Age tribal confederation of non-Indo-European peoples in the mountainous East Pontic zone of northern Anatolia, perennial adversaries of the Hittite Empire.
Defeated by Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser I in the late 12th century BCE and disappear from all historical records thereafter; groups may have migrated north-east toward the Caucasus.
The Kaska appear extensively in Hittite annals as persistent northern enemies; Bryce synthesizes the Hittite sources.
A reliable, readable introduction to the Bronze Age peoples of Anatolia and the Hittite world, the milieu of the Hattians, Arzawa, Kizzuwatna, and Kaska.