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

by: Drews, R.

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 The End of the Bronze Age
Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. - Third Edition
Robert Drews

About this book
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.

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Chapter One. THE CATASTROPHE AND ITS CHRONOLOGY

Chapter Two. THE CATASTROPHE SURVEYED

PART TWO: ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS OF THE CATASTROPHE
Chapter Three. EARTHQUAKES

Chapter Four. MIGRATIONS

Chapter Five. IRONWORKING

Chapter Six. DROUGHT

Chapter Seven. SYSTEMS COLLAPSE

Chapter Eight. RAIDERS

PART THREE: A MILITARY EXPLANATION OF THE CATASTROPHE
Chapter Nine. PREFACE TO A MILITARY EXPLANATION OF THE CATASTROPHE

Chapter Ten. THE CHARIOT WARFARE OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE

Chapter Eleven. FOOTSOLDIERS IN THE LATE BRONZE AGE

Chapter Twelve. INFANTRY AND HORSE TROOPS IN THE EARLY IRON AGE

Chapter Thirteen. CHANGES IN ARMOR AND WEAPONS AT THE END OF THE BRONZE AGE

Chapter Fourteen. THE END OF CHARIOT WARFARE IN THE CATASTROPHE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Index

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

by: Drews, R.

• ISBN-13: 9780691048116 / 978-0-691-04811-6
• ISBN-03: 0691048118 / 0-691-04811-8
• Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1993

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