@article{2013,title={AN ASSESSMENT OF THE MYCENAEANS AND HITTITES’ INTEREST IN THE GEOGRAPHY OF WEST ANATOLIA},abstractNode={Although there are similar reasons, behind the Myceneans and Hittites’ interest in Western Anatolia. Their relationships are examined, the results are reflected in different. Despite the fact that Hittites dominated the region with military expeditions in certain periods. If we exclude casemate walls in Miletos and the findings may be Hittite origin, it is not possible to say that there is a strong cultural sense of Hittite. Since the LH II phase Mycenaean pottery produced locally in Western Anatolia, presence of Mycenaean pottery in pithos graves that representing the local tradition is phenomenon, it can be interpreted as emulation of local people to Mycenaean culture and adopting it. Of course trade is great importance of the adoption of Mycenaean burial customs by locals. Instead of Hittite traders while visiting Hittite army in Western Anatolia, on the other hand Mycenaean traders have learned with the Minoans to establish commercial relations with the coastal cities of Western Anatolia, as a result of these relationships, they introduced cultural characteristics of mainland Greece to local community. Confidence that the first condition for trade providing by Mycenaeans for locals, it should be relations contuined and local people accommodate Mycenaean culture and accepted it in local elements. },author={Barış GÜR},year={2013},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}