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The End of the Bronze Age – Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. – Third Edition Paperback - 1996
by Drews, Robert
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- Title The End of the Bronze Age – Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C. – Third Edition
- Author Drews, Robert
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 4th Printing
- Condition New
- Pages 264
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton Univ Pr, Princeton
- Date 1996
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # __0691025916
- ISBN 9780691025919 / 0691025916
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 9.22 x 6.14 x 0.65 in (23.42 x 15.60 x 1.65 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
- Dewey Decimal Code 930
From the rear cover
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 - earthquakes, migrations, drought, systems collapse - and proposes a military one instead. Combining fascinating archaeological facts with vivid descriptions of military tactics, Drews presents the transition from chariot to infantry warfare as the primary cause of the Great Kingdoms' downfall. Late in the thirteenth century B.C. the barbarians who until then had been little cause for concern to the Great Kingdoms, and who had served the kings as mercenary "runners" in support of the chariots, awoke to the fact that en masse they could destroy a chariot army. There followed an orgy of slaughter, looting, and destruction. From the ashes arose the city-states of Greece and the tribal confederacy of Israel, communities that depended on massed formations of infantrymen. In making these arguments, the author uses textual and archaeological evidence to reconstruct what actually happened in the Bronze Age chariot battles, as well as the combat that characterized the Catastrophe.