# Cline 2021: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (revised and updated edition)

> Eric H. Cline, 2021. 5 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The source for the narrative and for the systems-collapse reading.

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# 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (revised and updated edition)

Eric H. Cline, 2021. _Princeton University Press_.

The standard narrative history: the interconnected Late Bronze Age world, the destructions, the Ugarit letters, the Medinet Habu inscriptions, and the argument that a "perfect storm" of climate change, famine, earthquakes, invasion and the breakdown of trade brought systems collapse. First edition 2014.

**Late Bronze Age collapse** Bookdoi: **[10.1515/9780691208022](https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691208022)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The source for the narrative and for the systems-collapse reading.

## Cited by on this site 5 records

[No single cause; several stresses (climate, famine, migration, war, earthquakes, internal unrest) struck…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bronze-age-collapse/answers/ANS0D464SDG4GN6/no-single-cause-several-stresses-climate-famine-migration)

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[Linear B tablets from the Palace of Nestor, Pylos](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bronze-age-collapse/artifacts/ART0D4657JM2S4R/linear-b-tablets-from-the-palace-of-nestor-pylos)

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[The last letters from Ugarit](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bronze-age-collapse/artifacts/ART0D4658A25EYG/the-last-letters-from-ugarit)

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[Eric H. Cline](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bronze-age-collapse/people/FIG0D464J3433PS/eric-h-cline)

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[The Late Bronze Age collapse](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bronze-age-collapse)

The mystery article

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## Cite it

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Cline, E. H. (2021). 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (revised and updated edition). Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691208022
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[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691208022)

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