There is not enough informations about Kaškas living in the North of the Hittite State. According to the information obtained from the Hittite cuneiform texts, these people are nomadic, grabber and barbaric tribes. However, the accuracy of this information has not been investigated enough. In this study, informations that collected from the Hittite sources are compared with the adverse informations that collected from the same sources and tried to make some determinations about the subject. As a result, understood that at least portion of these people are community that have settled life and producing. For this reason, should be evaluated that Kashkans are as a people, civilized the period up to other communities in Anatolia.
Keywords: Kaškalar; Hitit Devleti; Kuzey Anadolu; Çivi yazılı metinler; M.Ö. II. binyıl
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