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Author Yasur-Landau, Assaf.

Title The Philistines and Aegean migration at the end of the late Bronze Age / Assaf Yasur-Landau
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 389 pages) : illustrations
Contents The archaeological identification of migration and other ranges of interregional interactions -- Setting the scene : the Mycenaean palatial culture and the outside world -- The twelfth-century-BCE Aegean : political and social background -- Preconditions for migration -- Along the routes -- Strictly business? : the southern Levant and the Aegean in the thirteenth to the early twelfth century BCE -- The material culture change in twelfth-century Philistia -- The Philistine society and the settlement process -- A short history of the Aegean immigration to the Levant
Summary Assaf Yasur-Landau examines the early history of the biblical Philistines who were among the 'Sea Peoples' who migrated from the Aegean area to the Levant during the early twelfth century BC. Creating an archaeological narrative of the migration of the Philistines, he combines an innovative theoretical framework on the archaeology of migration with new data from excavations in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel and thereby reconstructs the social history of the Aegean migration to the southern Levant. The author follows the story of the migrants from the conditions that caused the Philistines to leave their Aegean homes, to their movement eastward along the sea and land routes, to their formation of a migrant society in Philistia and their interaction with local populations in the Levant. Based on the most up-to-date evidence, this book offers a new and fresh understanding of the arrival of the Philistines in the Levant
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-381) and index
Notes English
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Subject Philistines -- History
Philistines -- Migrations
Philistines -- Antiquities
Social archaeology -- Aegean Sea Region
Land settlement -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500
Bronze age.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
Antiquities
Bronze age
Emigration and immigration
Land settlement
Philistines
SUBJECT Aegean Sea Region -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Middle East -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Aegean Sea Region -- Antiquities
Middle East -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90004414
Subject Europe -- Aegean Sea Region
Middle East
Genre/Form History
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009028632
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