Bronze Age Articles

The following analysis is effort to examine the reasons for the collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East in ca. 1200 B.C. These civilizations constituted the core of a larger global system that also included a less advanced periphery. My preliminary assumption is that collapse is best explained as an aspect... [continue reading]

The Cyclopean fortifications surrounding the Bronze Age sites of Mycenae, Tiryns, Athens, and Gla were constructed for two reasons: as a military defense system and as a tangible and persuasive articulation of wealth, power, and authority. The architecture of these walls, therefore, is significant both for the study of Bronze Age politics on mainland Greece... [continue reading]