Were the Sea Peoples a cause of the collapse or a consequence of it?
Most likely: populations displaced by famine and the failure of their own states, moving with their familiesAhead on the evidence, not yet confirmed. It needs two reviews to be accepted.
Where it stands
Four answers have been proposed. Populations displaced by famine and the failure of their own states, moving with their families. leads, with evidence 2 for: partly supported by its tests. Three are still possible.
Answers 4
History
- Edgerton & Wilson puts forward: organised invaders who destroyed functioning states.
- Edgerton & Wilson: the Year 8 inscription describes a confederation that overran Hatti, Cyprus and Syria before reaching Egypt.For: Organised invaders who destroyed functioning states.
- Kaniewski et al. puts forward: populations displaced by famine and the failure of their own states, moving with their families.
- Kaniewski et al.: in Cyprus and Syria, climate-driven famine and the invasions are linked in one radiocarbon chronology.For: Populations displaced by famine and the failure of their own states, moving with their families.
- Knapp & Manning puts forward: raiders of limited reach, magnified by Egyptian royal propaganda.
- Knapp & Manning: royal inscriptions are victory texts; the material evidence for the protagonists is ambiguous.For: Raiders of limited reach, magnified by Egyptian royal propaganda.
- Feldman et al.: european-related ancestry appears at Ashkelon in the early Iron Age and is diluted later, implying settlement…For: Populations displaced by famine and the failure of their own states, moving with their families.
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