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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
1996.
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| Edition: | Third Edition |
| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : 10 halftones, 4 figures |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-243) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780691209975 0691209979 |