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Subject(s)

• Bronze age—Mediterranean Region [Browse]
• Warfare, Prehistoric—Mediterranean Region [Browse]
• Chariot warfare—Mediterranean Region [Browse]
• Weapons, Prehistoric—Mediterranean Region [Browse]
• Mediterranean Region—Antiquities [Browse]

Summary note

The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century b.c. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing to an end the Levantine, Hittite, Trojan, and Mycenaean kingdoms and plunging some lands into a dark age that would last more than four hundred years. In his attempt to account for this destruction, Robert Drews rejects the traditional explanations and proposes a military one instead. --From publisher's description.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-243) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• The catastrophe and its chronology
• The catastrophe surveyed
• Earthquakes
• Migrations
• Ironworking
• Drought
• Systems collapse
• Raiders
• Preface to a military explanation of the catastrophe
• The chariot warfare of the late Bronze Age
• Footsoldiers in the late Bronze Age
• Infantry and horse troops in the early Iron Age
• Changes in armor and weapons at the end of the Bronze Age
• The end of chariot warfare in the catastrophe.

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ISBN

0691048118 (acid-free paper) :

LCCN

^^^92046511^

OCLC

27186178

RCP

H - S

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