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The End of the Bronze Age Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. /

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 pl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Drews, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1996.
Edición:Third Edition
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.