Relief of Yariri and Kamani, 8th-century BC Luwian rulers
of Carchemish, a Neo-Hittite State (despite the name, Neo-Hittites were overwhelmingly Luwians and
not Hittites).
The least known Anatolian group were the Palaic peoples, who inhabited the region of Pala in northern
Anatolia.[9] This area had probably also previously been inhabited by the Hatti. It is likely that Palaic
peoples disappeared with the invasion of the Kaskians in the 15th-century BC.[10]
Iron Age
Map 3: Anatolia / Asia Minor in the Greco-Roman
period. The classical regions and their main settlements (circa 200 BC).
Following the Bronze Age collapse, a number of Neo-Hittite petty kingdoms survived until about the 8th
century BC. Later in the Iron Age, Anatolian languages were spoken by
the Lycians, Lydians, Carians, Pisidians and others. These languages were mostly extinct in the Hellenistic
period, by the 3rd century BC, although late survival of some remnants is possible, the Isaurian
language may have survived into the Late Antiquity, with funerary inscriptions recorded for as late as
the 5th century AD.
Culture
Law
The better known laws of the Anatolian peoples were the Hittite laws that were formulated as case
laws. These laws were organized in groups according to their subject (in eight main groups). Hittite laws
show an aversion to the death penalty, the usual penalty for serious offenses