Here we present the latest series of 14C determinations for Gordion from Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age contexts. Fifteen absolute dates provide a critical new framework for establishing the timing and tempo of cultural transformation from the collapse of the Hittite Empire through to the ...
“The Sea Peoples are the big boogeymen of the Bronze Age collapse,” says Cline. “I do think they're part of it, but not the sole reason. I believe they're as much a symptom of the collapse as they were a cause.” 'Megadrought' and 'Earthquake Storms' ...
► The Bronze Age Collapse and Greek Dark Ages may result from the same arid period. Introduction At the end of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) most Eastern Mediterranean urban centers were either destroyed or abandoned throughout the Near East and Aegean (Andronikos, 1954; Vermeule, 1960; ...
social and economic conditions. While classifying the Bronze Age might at first seem to be a simpler task, in East Asian archaeology there has been controversy over whether the actual presence of bronze is required to define that period (Shoda,2010). In Korea, for example, the Bronze Age is...
This destruction and abandonment known as the Bronze Age Collapse may have been caused by natural disasters, climate change, political and social unrest, overpopulation, invasion by the mysterious Sea Peoples, or a combination of multiple factors. 公元前 1400 年左右,迈锡尼人扩展到克里特岛,引入了...
Scientists will have to find alternative explanations for a huge population collapse in Europe at the end of the Bronze Age as researchers prove definitively that climate change - commonly assumed to be responsible - could not have been the culprit.
Knappett, Carl, Ray Rivers, and Tim Evans."The Theran Eruption and Minoan Palatial Collapse: New Interpretations Gained from Modelling the Maritime Network."Antiquity85.329 (2011): 1008-23. Print. Molloy, Barry, et al. "Life and Death of a Bronze Age House: Excavation of Early Minoan I Le...
The chronology of the Early Bronze Age (EBA) in the southern Levant and the synchronization between the sites, considering seriation and radiocarbon dates,... Regev,Johanna - 《Radiocarbon》 被引量: 46发表: 2012年 Rise and collapse in the Southern Levant in the Early Bronze Age. The chronolog...
The ancient city of Jericho, located at the archaeological site of Tell es-Sultan west of the Jordan River and adjacent to the Ein es-Sultan spring on the edge of modern Jericho, has often been associated with the biblical city of Jericho and the story f
The Bronze Age zooarchaeological research for the interior and other regions of the Iberian Peninsula is currently limited. Despite several sites with known zooarchaeological profiles from the period, the main issue is that most of these derive from frag