Abstract Explanations for the Late Bronze Age crisis and collapse in the eastern
Mediterranean are legion: migrations, predations by external forces, political struggles within�…

One of the goals of climate scientists is to understand how climate shifts may have changed
the course of history and influenced culture at millennial timescales. Repeatedly�…

A core drilled from the Sea of Galilee was subjected to high resolution pollen analysis for the
Bronze and Iron Ages. The detailed pollen diagram (sample/~ 40 yrs) was used to�…

This paper examines the evidence for climatic changes in the Eastern Mediterranean for the
period 200–800 AD and offers hypotheses on the role of climatic fluctuations in the societal�…

The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean offers new insights
into the material and social practices of many different Mediterranean peoples during the�…

Between the 13th and 11th centuries BCE, most Greek Bronze Age Palatial centers were
destroyed and/or abandoned. The following centuries were typified by low population levels�…

As a'Medieval Warm Period'prevailed in Western Europe during the tenth and eleventh
centuries, the eastern Mediterranean region, from the Nile to the Oxus, was suffering from a�…

The Late Bronze Age world of the Eastern Mediterranean, a rich linkage of Aegean,
Egyptian, Syro-Palestinian, and Hittite civilizations, collapsed famously 3200 years ago and�…

Abstract In Eastern Mediterranean history, 1200 BCE is a symbolic date. Its significance is
tied to the important upheavals that destabilised regional-scale economic systems, leading�…

One of the larger—and more expensive—present programmes of study in archaeological
science explores the provenance of prehistoric bronzes from the Mediterranean. What are�…