Tag Archive for 'Bronze Age'

Dr Walsh with colleagues at work excavating a Bronze Age site. Image credit: Kevin Walsh, the University of York.

8,000 Year Old Evidence of Human Activity Found in Alps

Sep 27, 2013 by News Staff

Fourteen-year-long archaeological excavations in the Parc National des Écrins in the southern Alps have provided evidence of human activity from the...

Hieroglyphic and cuneiform texts portray the proximate cause of the collapse of the late Bronze Age civilizations as the invasions of the Sea Peoples. But the new study says the Eastern Mediterranean cultures suffered wars, famine fuelled by climate change. The picture shows Sea Peoples in their ships during the battle with the Egyptians (Drawn by Boudier from a photograph by Beato).

Collapse of Late Bronze Age Civilizations Linked to Climate Change

Aug 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a new study reported in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, climate change may have driven the collapse of Eastern Mediterranean civilizations...

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