The Philistines and Aegean migration at the end of the late Bronze Age
By: Assaf Yasur-Landau.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521191623
Subjects: Philistines -- History; Philistines -- Migrations; Philistines -- Antiquities; Social archaeology -- Aegean Sea Region; Land settlement -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500; Bronze age; Aegean Sea Region -- Emigration and immigration -- History; Middle East -- Emigration and immigration -- History; Aegean Sea Region -- Antiquities; Middle East -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The archaeological identification of migration and other ranges of interregional interactions; title: Setting the scene : the Mycenaean palatial culture and the outside world; title: The twelfth-century BCE Aegean : political and social background; title: Preconditions for migration; title: Along the routes; title: Strictly business? : the southern Levant and the Aegean in the thirteenth to the early twelfth century BCE; title: The material culture change in twelfth-century Philistia; title: The Philistine society and the settlement process; title: A short history of the Aegean immigration to the Levant.