“Sea-Peoples” Up-to-Date. New Research on Transformations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 13th – 11th Centuries BCE.

Peter M. Fischer & Teresa Bürge (επιμέλεια)

Πόλη: Wien

Έτος: 2017

Εκδότης: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Σειρά: Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean Vol. XXXV

Περιγραφή: Μαλακό εξώφυλλο, 412 σ, πολυάριθμοι ασπρόμαυροι πίνακες, πολυάριθμες ασπρόμαυρες και έγχρωμες εικόνες, 23,5 x 30,5 εκ.

Περίληψη (στην αγγλική γλώσσα)

This volume presents the outcomes of the European Science Foundation workshop “Sea Peoples” Up-to-Date. New Research on Transformations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 13th–11th Centuries BCE, which took place in November 2014 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. It offers up-to-date research on the Sea Peoples phenomenon during the so called “crisis years” at the end of the Bronze Age. This period encompasses dramatic changes in the political and cultural landscape of mainly the Eastern Mediterranean around 1200 BCE and most of the 12th century BCE. In geographical terms, these changes are noticeable in a vast area stretching from the Italian peninsula over the Balkans, the Aegean, Anatolia and Cyprus, to the Levant and Egypt. The term “Sea Peoples phenomenon” should be considered as an encompassing term, which – in addition to the written records on hostile activities of various ethnic groups in the Eastern Mediterranean – is synonymous with the effect of this turbulent period as reflected in the material remains. As a consequence, these events ended the Late Bronze Age, the first period of “internationalism” in human history. The papers are presented in five sections: “Overviews: From Italy to the Levant”; “Climate and Radiocarbon”; “Theoretical Approaches on Destruction, Migration and Transformation of Cultures”; “Case Studies: Cyprus, Cilicia and the Northern and Southern Levant”; and “Material Studies”. The reader of this volume gains insights into very complex changes during this period. It will become clear that these changes manifest themselves over decades and not years, and include numerous underlying factors: One single wave of migration, one general military campaign and other simple explanations should be dismissed. The breakdown of Late Bronze Age societies and the transformative processes that followed in its wake occurred in a vast area but they are mirrored in differing ways at local level.

Περιεχόμενα

Abbreviations [7]

Preface [9]

Reflections on the Outcomes of the Workshop: Problems and Desiderata [11-20]
Peter M. Fischer & Teresa Bürge

The Sea Peoples after Three Millennia: Possibilities and Limitations of Historical Reconstruction [23-42]
Reinhard Jung

Causes of Complex Systems Collapse at the End of the Bronze Age [43-74]
Malcolm H. Wiener

The Sea Peoples and the Collapse of Mycenaean Palatial Rule [75-81]
Helène Whittaker

The Climatic Context of the 3.2 kyr calBP Event [85-93]
David Kaniewski & Elise Van Campo

Dating the End of the Late Bronze Age with Radiocarbon: Some Observations, Concerns, and Revisiting the Dating of Late Cypriot IIC to IIIA [95-110]
Sturt W. Manning, Catherine Kearns & Brita Lorentzen

Sea Peoples, Philistines, and the Destruction of Cities: A Critical Examination of Destruction Layers ‘Caused’ by the ‘Sea Peoples’ [113-140]
Jesse Michael Millek

Some Notes on Philistines, Migration and Mediterranean Connectivity [141-148]
Assaf Yasur-Landau

The Appearance, Formation and Transformation of Philistine Culture: New Perspectives and New Finds [149-162]
Aren M. Maeir & Louise A. Hitchcock
ΔΙΑΒΑΣΤΕ ΤΟ ΑΡΘΡΟ

Anglo-Saxons and Sea Peoples: Comparing Similar Approaches for Tracking Ancient Human Migration [163-173]
Lorenz Rahmstorf

The 13th/12th Century BCE Destructions and the Abandonment of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus [177-206]
Peter M. Fischer

Flourishing amidst a ‘Crisis’: The Regional History of the Paphos Polity at the Transition from the 13th to the 12th Centuries BCE [207-227]
Artemis Georgiou
ΔΙΑΒΑΣΤΕ ΤΟ ΑΡΘΡΟ

The Late Bronze – Iron Age Transition and the Problem of the Sea Peoples Phenomenon in Cilicia [229-255]
Gunnar Lehmann
ΔΙΑΒΑΣΤΕ ΤΟ ΑΡΘΡΟ

The Archaeological Ramifications of ‘Philistines’ in Aleppo [257-262]
Diederik J.W. Meijer

The Impact of the Sea Peoples in the Central and Northern Levant in Perspective [263-283]
Francisco J. Núñez

Fluctuations in Levantine Maritime Foci across the Late Bronze/Iron Age Transition: Charting the Role of the Sharon-Carmel (Tjeker) Coast in the Rise of Iron Age Phoenician Polities [285-298]
Ayelet Gilboa & Ilan Sharon

The Late Bronze to Early Iron Age Transition in Transjordan – Between Tradition and Innovation: Evidence of Migration at Tell Abu al-Kharaz, Jordan Valley? [299-327]
Teresa Bürge

Philistines and Danites [329-352]
Wolfgang Zwickel

The Sea Peoples: A View from the Pottery [355-378]
Penelope A. Mountjoy

How Aegean is Philistine Pottery? The Use of Aegean-type Pottery in the Early 12th Century BCE Southern Levant [379-387]
Philipp W. Stockhammer

Weapons and Metals – Interregional Contacts between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age [389-400]
Mathias Mehofer & Reinhard Jung

Shifts in Value? Exotica in the 13th-12th Centuries BCE Mediterranean [401-412]
Gert Jan van Wingaarden