Micromorphological and Chemical Features of Soils as Evidence of Bronze Age Ancient Anthropogenic Impact (Late Bronze Age Muradymovo Settlement, Ural Region, Russia)

BOOK REVIEW: Review of The New Chronology of the Bronze Age Settlement of Tepe Hissar, Iran

This is an invited review of the new volume by Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann (2016) entitled "The New Chronology of the Bronze Age Settlement of Tepe Hissar, Iran". University Museum Monograph 142, University of Pennsylvania Museum. 408 pages | 8 1/2 x 11 | 238 illus. ISBN 978-1-934536-83-4 | $69.95s | £45.50). In general, this reviewer finds the book to be of great interest to specialists and students ...

Neolithic and Bronze Age

This document comprises a Stage 2 resource assessment and draft research agenda for the Neolithic and Bronze Age (Early – Middle) of the East Midlands. It builds upon the assessments for Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire presented at a seminar at County Hall, Leicester on 28.1.1999 (Bishop 1999; Chapman 1999, Clay 1999a; Membury 1999; Myers ...

Middle Bronze Age Settlement Patterns in the Western Galilee, Israel

Aharon Kempinski and Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier excavated Tel Kabri, in the western Galilee region of Israel (fig. 1), in the late 1980s and early 1990s (Kempinski, Scheftelowitz, and Oren 2002). They found that during the Middle Bronze Age (MB) II period (ca. 1750–1600 b.c.) the site had been the center of a strong coastal polity. In size and importance, it may have been second only to Hazor in th...

The Many Ways between Late Bronze Age Aegeans and Levants

Environmental Roots of the Late Bronze Age Crisis

The Late Bronze Age world of the Eastern Mediterranean, a rich linkage of Aegean, Egyptian, Syro-Palestinian, and Hittite civilizations, collapsed famously 3200 years ago and has remained one of the mysteries of the ancient world since the event's retrieval began in the late 19(th) century AD/CE. Iconic Egyptian bas-reliefs and graphic hieroglyphic and cuneiform texts portray the proximate caus...