Bronze Age Collapse - 1,200 BC - What Happened to the Sea People?
More than 3,200 years ago, a vast, interconnected civilization thrived. Then it suddenly collapsed. What happened?
What was life like in the Bronze Age? What happened during the Bronze Age? What is the Bronze Age? Why is it called the Bronze Age? What century was the Bronze Age? Where did the Bronze Age start? How did the Bronze Age start? What caused the Bronze Age collapse? What is a lunula...
Why was the golden age of Greece called that? What caused the collapse of ancient Greece? What was the Golden Age of Ancient Greece? What happened during the golden age of Athens? What ended the Dark Ages in Greece? What was the golden age of Greece?
The Minoans ruled the area we now know as Greece during the Aegean Bronze Age (around 3000-1100 BCE). Centered on the Greek island of Crete, they used their access to the sea to establish trade routes in the Mediterranean. Trading success meant wealth, and with it, the development of ...
Modern historians and archaeologists have no idea how the society functioned or what happened to it. There are very few written records, no statues or monuments of kings or conquerors, and no depictions of any war or battles. The most well-known settlement of the Indus Valley Civilization is...
A nice thing about the biceps is that, because it may leave clear tendinous marks on the skeleton, we sometimes can reconstruct how its attachments and path evolved (and any obvious specializations; even perhaps changes of functions if/when they happened). Here are some biceps examples from ...
I still have the emails I sent back to my research dean to describe what happened in the event, and they bring back the pain and stress now that I re-read them. But then… there’s a special stupid part to this story. I tried to lighten the mood one night shortly after the storm...
What Happened In 2017 As has become my practice, I celebrate the end of a year and the start of a new one here at AVC with back to back posts focusing on what happened and then thinking about what might happen. Today, we focus on what happened in 2017. Crypto: I went back and loo...
What happened to the Mycenaean civilization during the Dark Ages? What caused the collapse of Harappan civilization? What caused the collapse of the Akkadian Empire? Who discovered the Mycenaean civilization? What caused Greece to fall into the Dark Ages?