The Origin and Date of Aegean-Type Pottery in the Levant

Elizabeth French in A.E. Killebrew & G. Lehmann (eds), 2013. The Philistines and other ‘Sea Peoples’ in Text and Archaeology [Archaeological and Biblical Studies 15], Atlanta/Georgia, 345-347.

From the introduction

During the course of the 2001 workshop on the Philistines and other ‘Sea Peoples’ and its many useful presentations and discussions, I came to the conclusion that, as I had previously suspected, there was only one point in the pottery development of the twelfth century to which on present evidence we can assign first impetus for the phenomenon that we had met to study. It is self-evident that a phenomenon such as this is most unlikely to have occurred independently in several regions at approximately the same time; there must be an impetus.