Summary This fifth volume of a collection devoted to the interdisciplinary meetings held one every two years at K ltepe, ancient Kane?, brings together eighteen contributions dedicated to the archaeology and history of this Central Anatolian site and its surroundings. Each chapter within the volume presents the results of current research into K ltepe, thus continuing the holistic approach first demonstrated in earlier volumes of the K ltepe International Meetings sub-series of revitalizing one of the most important cultural centres of early Anatolia and of emphasising its importance as a pilot site for interdisciplinary studies. Drawing on K ltepe's unique textual and archaeological data, the studies gathered here are organized into four key thematic sections devoted respectively to politics, law and religion; women, family and correspondence; human and animal skeletons; and to the most recent archaeological excavations in K ltepe covering a period from the Chalcolithic to Hellenistic times. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. K ltepe at the Crossroads between Disciplines C cile Michel Politics, Law and Religion 2. A City-State's Diplomacy in the Early Middle Bronze Age Near East Jan Gerrit Dercksen & Jacob Jan de Ridder 3. Law and Justice in Kane? and its Depiction on Cylinder Seals: A New Interpretation of the Motifs 'Ball-Staff' and 'Pot' Adelheid Otto 4. The Origins and History of the God ?arra-m?t?n Yoram Cohen 5. The Cult of A?ka?epa in Hittite Sources Amir Gilan Women, Family and Correspondence 6. Keeping in Touch: Language and Mobility of Assyrian Women in the Old Assyrian Period Anita Fattori 7. The Hand of a Woman? Wiebke Beyer 8. Invoking Relations in Old Assyrian and Old Babylonian Letters Matthias Adelhofer 9. The Seals OF the ?alim-A??ur Family (94/k) Agnete W. Lassen Of Humans and Animals 10. A First Attempt to Assess Activity Patterns at K ltepe: Studying Entheseal Changes in the Bronze Age Skeletal Sample Donald Kale, Handan st nda?, Semih zen, Doruk Cafer zg & Fikri Kulako?lu 11. Reconstructing Bronze Age Diet from Stable Isotopes Analysis: Preliminary Results from K ltepe-Kane? Kameray zdemir, Handan st nda?, Turhan Do?an, Furkan Kulak & Fikri Kulako?lu 12. Of Lions and Sheep: Animal Exploitation at K ltepe and in Central Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age. New Data from Recent Excavations Fikri Kulako?lu, Luca Peyronel & Claudia Minniti Recent Discoveries at K ltepe and its Vicinity 13. Discovering the Late Chalcolithic Period at K ltepe: Excavation of the Central Trench (2021-2022) Fikri Kulako?lu, Ryoichi Kontani & Yuji Yamaguchi 14. Changes ?n the Settlement Plan at the End of the Third M?llenn?um BC ?n K ltepe-Kane?: New Data on the Trans?t?on from Publ?c Bu?ld?ngs to Pr?vate Workshops Y?lmaz R?dvano?ullar?, G zel zt rk,Cihan Ay, Elif Gen & Fikri Kulako?lu 15. The Settlement Sequence of K ltepe from the Late Early to the Middle Bronze Age. Stratigraphic and Ceramic Periodization from Recent Excavations in the Southern Sector of the Mound Fikri Kulako?lu, Luca Peyronel, Valentina Oselini & Agnese Vacca 16. ?amuha and Kane? Andreas M ller-Karpe 17. Two New Tablets from the House of Kuliya, Son of Ali-abum, and One Broken Envelope: 2022 K ltepe Texts (Kt 22/k 02-03, 05) Adam Anderson 18. Recent Excavations on the Mound of K ltepe: A New Public Building from the End of the Karum Period at Kane?-Ne?a Fikri Kulako?lu & Luca Peyronel 19. Studies on K ltepe Hellenistic Period: Preliminary Evaluations of the 2022 Excavations Burcu T ys z & Y?lmaz R?dvano?ullar? Index