The Philistines and Aegean Migration at the End of the Late Bronze Age
Assaf Yasur-Landau (Author)
Assaf Yasur-Landau examines the early history of the biblical Philistines who were among the 'Sea Peoples' who migrated to the Levant during the twelfth century BC. He combines a theoretical framework on the archaeology of migration with new data from excavations to reconstruct the social history of the Aegean migration.
History
1 online resource (412 pages)
9780511761201, 9780521191623, 9781107660038, 0511761201, 0521191629, 1107660033
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Introduction; 1. The archaeological identification of migration and other ranges of interregional interactions; 2. Setting the scene: the Mycenaean palatial culture and the outside world; 3. The twelfth-century-BCE Aegean: political and social background; 4. Preconditions for migration; 5. Along the routes; 6. Strictly business? The southern Levant and the Aegean in the thirteenth to the early twelfth century BCE; 7. The material culture change in the twelfth-century Philistia; 8. The Philistine society and the settlement process; 9. A short history of the Aegean immigration to the Levant.