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The Late Bronze Age collapse was a period of societal collapse in the Mediterranean basin during the 12th century ... Many other sites offer less conclusive causes ...
The book focuses on Cline's hypothesis for the Late Bronze Age collapse of civilization, a transition period that affected the Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Cypriots, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Assyrians and Babylonians; varied heterogeneous cultures populating eight powerful and flourishing states intermingling via trade, commerce, exchange and "cultural piggybacking," despite "all the ...
Lefkandi on the island of Euboea was a prosperous settlement in the Late Bronze Age, [31] possibly to be identified with old Eretria. [32] It recovered quickly from the collapse of Mycenaean culture, and in 1981 excavators of a burial ground found the largest 10th century BC building yet known from Greece. [33]
A mysterious loose confederation of fierce maritime marauders known as the Sea Peoples was identified as one of the main causes of the Late Bronze Age Collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean. [37] It is possible that the Sea Peoples were themselves victims of the environmental changes that led to widespread famine and precipitated the Collapse. [38]
Researchers used satellite images to help expose a societal landscape in Bronze Age Central Europe. The archaeological team discovered over 100 sites in a complex network, highlighting the largest ...
The final decades of the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean basin are often characterised as a period of widespread societal collapse known as the Late Bronze Age collapse (c. 1200 – c. 1150 BC), although its severity and scope are debated among scholars.
Subsequent research developed the hypothesis further, attempting to link these sources to other Late Bronze Age evidence of migration, piracy, and destruction. While initial versions of the hypothesis regarded the Sea Peoples as a primary cause of the Late Bronze Age collapse , more recent versions generally regard them as a symptom of events ...
An analysis of the exceptionally well preserved remains of a Bronze Age village reveals the cozy domesticity of life in Britain 2,850 years ago. ... It’s late summer 2,850 years ago. A fire ...