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

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

This volume offers a ground-breaking 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 going back to original reports and tracing citation chains back from claimed destructions, the book clearly shows that the dominant narrative of 'the collapse c1200 BC' is at least in part a modern myth and an artefact of scholarship.
Middleton, Guy D., Antiquity, February 2024

Jesse Michael Millek 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 (Tübingen University Press, 2019),

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ISBN 13	9781948488839
ISBN 10	1948488833
Title	Destruction and Its Impact on Ancient Societies at the End of the Bronze Age
Author	Jesse Millek
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Lockwood Press
Year published	2023-03-10
Number of pages	404
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