This paper analyses the socio-political trajectories of Kos in the wider eastern Mediterranean context during the second part of the Palatial period and the early stages of the Post-palatial period of Mycenaean civilisation. To do so, elements of continuity and change from Late Helladic (LH) IIIB th...
Introduction The sensational nature of the end of the Bronze Age in the Mycenaean world, the broader Mediterranean, and emergence of the Philistine culture has all of the elements of a work of pulp fiction. As noted by Cline (2014), the transition was a time of destructions of great cities, invasion...
The origins of the Philistines have traditionally been understood within the context of a migration of “Sea Peoples” at the beginning of the Iron Age. However, excavations in other areas of the eastern Mediterranean have not yielded compelling evidence of a large-scale migration. We contend that mig...
The present paper is a synthesis of nine seasons of excavations supported by geophysical surveys at the Late Bronze Age harbour city of Hala Sultan Tekke near Larnaca on the southern littoral of Cyprus. Conclusions and hypotheses dealing with the origin, the heydays and the decline of this eastern M...
In the final decades of the 12th century B.C. a number of centuries-old empires in the Eastern Mediterranean collapsed. The notable exception being Egypt whose pharaohs defeated subsequent threats from the invading Sea Peoples. The end of the Bronze Age was characterised by the loss of many large st...
This paper aims to present the data concerning the identification of material and know-how originating from eastern Mediterranean in Corsica through Middle Bronze Age (1600-1200 BC) and Final Bronze Age (1200-800 C). In this island, the question of the presence of Aegean elements was, for a long tim...
The Iron Age began with political upheaval in the Near East. The Hittite empire to the north (Anatolia) and the Egyptian empire to the south, which both dominated the Levantine coast in the Late Bronze Age, lost their hegemony and withdrew from the region. People arrived by sea along the coast from...
Depuis nos années 1930, Tell Abou Hawam (TAH) a servi de référence en matière de commerce mycénien vers l’Orient méditerranéen. Le rapport concis du regretté R.W. Hamilton (1905-1995) avait mis en valeur ces importations – inhabituelles en quantité et variété. Deux hypothèses « factoïdes » ont alors...