Destruction and Its Impact on Ancient Societies at the End of the Bronze Age

By (author) Jesse Millek

Book cover: Destruction and Its Impact on Ancient Societies at the End of the Bronze Age

Extent: 380, 380 pages

Publisher: Lockwood Press

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Mediterranean Archaeology, World Archaeology

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(February 2023)

ISBN: 9781948488839

5.98 x 8.98 inches

Price: $89.95

In stock

PDF (Published)

(February 2023)

ISBN: 9781948488846

Price: $72.00

This volume offers a groundbreaking reassessment of the destructions that allegedly occurred at sites across the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Late Bronze Age, and challenges the numerous grand theories that have been put forward to account for them. The author demonstrates that earthquakes, warfare, and destruction all played a much smaller role in this period than the literature of the past several decades has claimed, and makes the case that the end of the Late Bronze Age was a far less dramatic and more protracted process than is generally believed.

  • By (author) Jesse Millek

Jesse Millek has presented a fundamental and important contribution with this book. The meticulous reassessment of the material and the methodologically convincing, critical approach make the study an indispensable starting point for any future research on the epochal transition around 1200 BCE in the eastern Mediterranean.

— Josef Fischer