Destruction and Its Impact on Ancient Societies at the End of the Bronze Age

by: Milek, J.

Destruction and Its Impact on Ancient Societies at the End of the Bronze Age

Jesse Millek

This volume offers a groundbreaking reassessment of the destructions that allegedly occurred at sites across the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Late Bronze Age, and challenges the numerous grand theories that have been put forward to account for them. The author demonstrates that earthquakes, warfare, and destruction all played a much smaller role in this period than the literature of the past several decades has claimed, and makes the case that the end of the Late Bronze Age was a far less dramatic and more protracted process than is generally believed.

About the author:

Dr. Jesse Michael Millek (PhD University of Tübingen, 2017) is an ancient historian and archaeologist specializing in the history and cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age (1550–1200 BCE). He is the author of Exchange, Destruction, and a Transitioning Society: Interregional Exchange in the Southern Levant from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron I (Tübingen University Press, 2019), and has written numerous articles on the archaeology of destruction, the Sea Peoples and their effect on the Eastern Mediterranean, trade during the Late Bronze Age, Egyptian hegemony over the southern Levant, and what actually occurred in various regions ca. 1200 BCE based on a reanalysis of the archaeological and historical records. Millek has won several prizes for his research including the Sean W. Dever Memorial Prize from the W. F. Albright Institute for Archaeological Research.

Destruction and Its Impact on Ancient Societies at the End of the Bronze Age

by: Milek, J.

• ISBN-13: 9781948488839 / 978-1-948488-83-9
• ISBN-03: 1948488833 / 1-948488-83-3
• Lockwood Press, Atlanta, 2023