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Anatolian Interfaces: Culture, Language and Religion between Anatolia and the Aegean. Mouton, Rutherford and Yakubovich (eds.). Leiden: Brill, 2013
The paper outlines the debatable issues that characterize the field of Luwian Studies nowadays and summarizes particular proposals made in connection with some of these issues at the conference "Luwian Identities" held at the University of Reading in June 2011.
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