Research Catalog

Title

The end of the Bronze Age : changes in warfare and the catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. / Robert Drews.

Author

Drews, Robert.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1993.

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Details

Description

xii, 252 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.

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. --From publisher's description.

Subjects

• Mediterranean Region > Antiquities
• Weapons, Prehistoric > Mediterranean Region
• Chariot warfare > Mediterranean Region
• Warfare, Prehistoric > Mediterranean Region
• Bronze age > Mediterranean Region

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-243) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

0691048118 (acid-free paper) :

LCCN

^^^92046511^

OCLC

• 27186178
• SCSB-12406929

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library