Destruction and Its Impact on Ancient Societies at the End of the Bronze Age
By (author) Jesse Millek
Hardback (Published)
(February 2023)
ISBN: 9781948488839
5.98 x 9.02 inches
Price: $89.95
In stock
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.
Dr. Jesse Michael Millek (PhD University of Tubingen, 2017) is an ancient historian and archaeologist specializing in the history and cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age (1550-1200 BCE). He is the author of Exchange, Destruction, and a Transitioning Society: Interregional Exchange in the Southern Levant from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron I (Tubingen University Press, 2019), and has written numerous articles on the archaeology of destruction, the Sea Peoples and their effect on the Eastern Mediterranean, trade during the Late Bronze Age, Egyptian hegemony over the southern Levant, and what actually occurred in various regions ca. 1200 BCE based on a reanalysis of the archaeological and historical records. Millek has won several prizes for his research including the Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize from the W. F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research.
- 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
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