The Hattians were an ancient people who inhabited the ‘Land of Hatti’ (present-day central Anatolia). The group was documented at least as early as the empire of Sargon of Akkad (c. 2300 BC). The Hattians were organised in city-states and small kingdoms or principalities. These cities were well organized and ruled as theocratic principalities, until they were gradually absorbed c.2000–1700 BC by the Indo-European Hittites. The latter became identified with the ‘Land of Hatti’, although they had nothing in common with their precursors, neither ethnographically nor linguistically.

As the kings graves in Alacahöyük were Hattian I include pictures from the Early Bronze age that were not described as being Hatti but as from Alacahöyük. I think in fact there is a pleonasm, but as the town remained important fore the Hitttes later there may be some overlap.