Summary This fifth volume of a collection devoted to the interdisciplinary meetings held one every two years at Kültepe, 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 Kültepe, thus continuing the holistic approach first demonstrated in earlier volumes of the Kültepe 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 Kültepe'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 Kültepe covering a period from the Chalcolithic to Hellenistic times. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Kültepe at the Crossroads between Disciplines Cécile 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 Kültepe: Studying Entheseal Changes in the Bronze Age Skeletal Sample Donald Kale, Handan Üstünda?, Semih Özen, Doruk Cafer Özgü & Fikri Kulako?lu 11. Reconstructing Bronze Age Diet from Stable Isotopes Analysis: Preliminary Results from Kültepe-Kane? Kameray Özdemir, Handan Üstünda?, Turhan Do?an, Furkan Kulak & Fikri Kulako?lu 12. Of Lions and Sheep: Animal Exploitation at Kültepe and in Central Anatolia during the Middle Bronze Age. New Data from Recent Excavations Fikri Kulako?lu, Luca Peyronel & Claudia Minniti Recent Discoveries at Kültepe and its Vicinity 13. Discovering the Late Chalcolithic Period at Kültepe: 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 Kültepe-Kane?: New Data on the Trans?t?on from Publ?c Bu?ld?ngs to Pr?vate Workshops Y?lmaz R?dvano?ullar?, Güzel Öztürk,Cihan Ay, Elif Genç & Fikri Kulako?lu 15. The Settlement Sequence of Kültepe 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 Müller-Karpe 17. Two New Tablets from the House of Kuliya, Son of Ali-abum, and One Broken Envelope: 2022 Kültepe Texts (Kt 22/k 02-03, 05) Adam Anderson 18. Recent Excavations on the Mound of Kültepe: A New Public Building from the End of the Karum Period at Kane?-Ne?a Fikri Kulako?lu & Luca Peyronel 19. Studies on Kültepe Hellenistic Period: Preliminary Evaluations of the 2022 Excavations Burcu Tüysüz & Y?lmaz R?dvano?ullar? Index