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Hello Dr. I’m sorry if this is not your field of study, but what do you think about the theory that the Sea People from the Bronze Age Collapse were Mycenaeans?

I can answer this very quickly by just pointing to a pair of books anyone interested in this topic should read:

Eric Cline's

1177: the Year Civilization Collapsed

and the "sequel"

After 1177: the Survival of Civilizations

(Eric's a very nice person, btw, who's about as short as I am, so I'm partial to him. lol He's also a phenomenal archaeologist, and I also recommend his Three Stones Make a Wall.)

(And yes the evidence is pretty solid they were Mycenaeans.)

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During those two decades, Hatshepsut began to wear the traditional Pharaonic false beard and other accoutrements of office, and men's clothing with body armor to conceal her breasts and other female attributes, as she can be seen in statues created at Deir el-Bahari, her mortuary temple. She also changed her name, giving it a masculine rather than a feminine ending, and became "His Majesty, Hatshepsu." In other words, she ruled as a man, a male pharaoh, not simply as a regent. As a result, she is now considered to be one of the most illustrious women from ancient Egypt, along with Nefertiti and Cleopatra. Hatshepsut apparently never remarried after Thutmose II died, but may have taken her architect and chief steward, Senenmut, as a lover; an image of him was carved, perhaps secretly, on Hatshepsut's funerary temple at Deir el-Bahari, whose construction he oversaw.

1177B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed, Eric H. Cline

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Eric Cline | 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed

Ok so, in my Response To This Thread on the bronze-to-iron shift, I mentioned a lecture I’d watched on it, and the closest thing I can find to what I remember is this one by Eric Cline at the Oriental Institute in 2015. Some of the ideas I was talking about are in here, but I seem to recall it going into the metalworking evidence for this in much greater detail(my brain’s probably mashing up 2-5 DIFFERENT lectures I’ve watched, tho I cant seem to find anything on the period that really fits).

Anyway: the whole thing is a discussion of the the late bronze age collapse, but the only thing he says specifically about the shift from bronze to iron here is a rather off-hand remark starting at ~ 42:36. The only other thing I’d add is that his argument here is that the process was probably NOT cleanly linear but messier; that a whole host of difficulties occurred around the same time, leading to the collapse, leading to ppl taking up iron.

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Do you have an opinion / educated guess / preferred interpretation on who the sea peoples were?

I will defer to my colleague Eric Cline. While I'm interested in the Bronze Age, I'm not an expert. I feel more comfortable in the Late Iron Age/Archaic Age and Classical.

If you've not read 1177 B.C., or it's recent "sequel" (if a history book can have a sequel), let me HIGHLY recommend them. Not only is it top-notch research, but imminently readable, as well.

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A little more than seventy years ago, on the evening of July 1, 1952, the BBC radio audience heard a startling declaration by Michael Ventri

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After 1177 BC: The Survival of Civilizations is a good book. It’s expansive, not exhaustive, on lots of cool stuff.

That’s it. That’s the whole post

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What happened in the Late Bronze Age confirms for Cline that seemingly stable societies are sometimes a lot closer to collapse than they appear. Superficially calm and orderly, the foundations are “actually rotted and weak, so that the smallest gust of wind or stress is enough to begin the process of collapse.” Cline told me that he believes there’s about a 90 percent chance of a global systems collapse in the next century—whether caused by climate change, nuclear war, another pandemic, artificial intelligence, or, as in the Late Bronze Age, some combination of factors. “Again, we’ve got that globalized, connected network,” Cline notes, “and if that crashes we’re pretty much sunk, at least in the short term. We’ll go back to square one, probably back before the age of steam. We might find ourselves living back in the Middle Ages.”

Reading the 1177 sequel in another moment of paralyzing global uncertainty, I again find his work curiously reassuring. “It’s going to happen—it would be hubristic to think it’s not,” Cline told me. “Every society in the course of human history has either collapsed completely or enough that it transforms so you wouldn’t recognize what came afterward.” In the book, he portrays collapse as a disruptive but also potentially creative force that can seed revolutions and renaissances—perhaps even necessary for civilizations to advance in a cyclical pattern of integration and fragmentation over centuries and millennia. “The main takeaway from all of this,” Cline writes near the end of the new book, “is that clearly such a collapse is survivable, provided that we are resilient enough and able to cope, adapt, or transform as necessary. Societal collapse doesn’t always take everyone with it, and often cultures continue, even if at a simpler level or perhaps in a new iteration.”

Eric Cline’s After 1177 B.C. tells the story of the ones who survived.

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In Greece, the collapse was especially devastating, at least for some. The impressive, palace-based Mycenaean civilization—they of Trojan War fame—almost entirely disappeared. Writing itself became a lost art for a few hundred years. Architecture became less ambitious. Yet Cline suggests some ordinary Greeks may have rejoiced at the fall of their rigidly hierarchical society, whose leaders had imposed onerous taxes and demanded laborers build huge monuments to the elite. “The demise of the palaces may have actually freed these people from a tremendous burden,” Cline writes, “such that some rural areas may have actually experienced a brief moment of prosperity in the decades immediately after the Collapse.” Any contemporary implications of this hypothesis Cline leaves for the reader to imagine.