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The End of the Bronze Age
Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. - Third Edition
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Robert Drews
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English
Published/Copyright:
2020
About this book
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.
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Robert Drews is Professor of Classics and History at Vanderbilt University and the author of The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East (Princeton).
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"Unusually sophisticated.... Well argued and learned."---A. M. Snodgrass, The Times Literary Supplement
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"[Drews] has differentiated between evidence and speculation so that those who will continue to debate the Catastrophe can use the book effectively. What is more important is that he has laid to rest some archaeological factoids which in their turn were based on no more than guesswork."---David W. J. Gill, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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"[The End of the Bronze Age] provides a concise overview of the problem and the present state of our knowledge.... Drews has produced a thought-provoking work with an intriguing thesis, informative and thorough in its scholarship, sound and imaginative in its arguments."---J. P. Karras, The Journal of Military History
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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ABBREVIATIONS
xi - PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
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Chapter One. THE CATASTROPHE AND ITS CHRONOLOGY
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Chapter Two. THE CATASTROPHE SURVEYED
8 - PART TWO: ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS OF THE CATASTROPHE
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Chapter Three. EARTHQUAKES
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Chapter Four. MIGRATIONS
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Chapter Five. IRONWORKING
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Chapter Six. DROUGHT
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Chapter Seven. SYSTEMS COLLAPSE
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Chapter Eight. RAIDERS
91 - PART THREE: A MILITARY EXPLANATION OF THE CATASTROPHE
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Chapter Nine. PREFACE TO A MILITARY EXPLANATION OF THE CATASTROPHE
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Chapter Ten. THE CHARIOT WARFARE OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE
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Chapter Eleven. FOOTSOLDIERS IN THE LATE BRONZE AGE
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Chapter Twelve. INFANTRY AND HORSE TROOPS IN THE EARLY IRON AGE
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Chapter Thirteen. CHANGES IN ARMOR AND WEAPONS AT THE END OF THE BRONZE AGE
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Chapter Fourteen. THE END OF CHARIOT WARFARE IN THE CATASTROPHE
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Index
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eBook published on:
April 20, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9780691209975
Edition:
3rd edition
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eBook ISBN:
9780691209975
Keywords for this book
Bronze Age; Ugarit; Ramesses III; Sea Peoples; Merneptah; Mycenae; Mycenaean Greece; Iron Age; Philistines; Eastern Mediterranean; Warfare; Hittites; Chariot; Infantry; Pylos; Tiryns; Medinet Habu (temple); Near East; Knossos; Pottery; Ramesses II; Skirmisher; Archaeology; Corslet; Drought; Carchemish; Dorians; Peloponnese; Hattusa; Cavalry; Battle of Kadesh; Mercenary; Pharaoh; Illustration; New Kingdom of Egypt; Sherd; Epigraphy; Seti II; Greeks; Siptah; Stele; Emar; Round shield; Ashdod; Illyrians; Anatolia; Mycenaean pottery; Egyptians; Barbarian; Alalakh; Courtesy; Princeton University Press; Balkans; War; Messenia; Philistia; Hazor; Phrygians; Twosret; Warrior Vase; Tomb; Meshwesh; Minoan civilization; Prehistory; Israelites; Vassal; Tribe; Great Karnak Inscription; Sherden; Asia Minor
Audience(s) for this book
For a non-specialist adult audience
