The Philistines and Aegean migration at the end of the late Bronze Age / Assaf Yasur-Landau.
By: Yasur-Landau, Assaf
Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.Description: xii, 389 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 9780521191623 (hbk.); 0521191629 (hbk.)Subject(s): Philistines -- History | Philistines -- Migrations | Philistines -- Exhibitions | 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 -- AntiquitiesDDC classification: 933 LOC classification: DS90 | .Y37 2010Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | British Museum | Middle East | Shelves | 1444A (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | ME000000015331 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The archaeological identification of migration and other ranges of interregional interactions -- Setting the scene : the Mycenaean palatial culture and the outside world -- The twelfth-century-BCE Aegean : political and social background -- Preconditions for migration -- Along the routes -- Strictly business? : the southern Levant and the Aegean in the thirteenth to the early twelfth century BCE -- The material culture change in twelfth-century Philistia -- The Philistine society and the settlement process -- A short history of the Aegean immigration to the Levant.