The End of the Bronze Age Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. / Robert Drews (Professor of Classics and History, Vanderbilt University, USA)
The catastrophe and its chronology -- The catastrophe surveyed -- Earthquakes -- Migrations -- Ironworking -- Drought -- Systems collapse -- Raiders -- Preface to a military explanation of the catastrophe -- The chariot warfare of the late Bronze Age -- Footsoldiers in the late Bronze Age -- Infantry and horse troops in the early Iron Age -- Changes in armor and weapons at the end of the Bronze Age -- The end of chariot warfare in the catastrophe
Summary
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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-243) and index
