Climate and the Late Bronze collapse: New evidence from the southern Levant

Tel Aviv

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 149-175

  Langgut, Dafna ^a   Finkelstein, Israel ^a   Litt, Thomas ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

20th Dynasty; Climate change; Crisis years; Hatti; Late Bronze collapse; Levant; Paleoclimate; Pollen; Sea of Galilee; Ugarit

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897588655     PISSN: 03344355     EISSN: 20404786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/033443513X13753505864205     Document Type: Article

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