Crisis in Context: The End of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean
@article{Knapp2016CrisisIC, title={Crisis in Context: The End of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean}, author={A. Bernard Knapp and Sturt W. Manning}, journal={American Journal of Archaeology}, year={2016}, volume={120}, pages={99 - 149} }
Explanations for the Late Bronze Age crisis and collapse in the eastern Mediterranean are legion: migrations, predations by external forces, political struggles within dominant polities or system collapse among them, inequalities between centers and peripheries, climatic change and natural disasters, disease/plague. There has never been any overarching explanation to account for all the changes within and beyond the eastern Mediterranean, some of which occurred at different times from the mid…
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