# Weiss 1982: The decline of Late Bronze Age civilization as a possible response to climatic change > B. Weiss, 1982. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The early climate-and-migration reading of the Sea Peoples. Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D464EXJ2EHD/the-decline-of-late-bronze-age-civilization-as-a-possible Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources)[Late Bronze Age collapse](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bronze-age-collapse)Weiss 1982 **0** # The decline of Late Bronze Age civilization as a possible response to climatic change B. Weiss, 1982. _Climatic Change 4(2), 173–198_. Proposes that drought drove Luwian peoples out of western Anatolia early in the 12th century BC and that they were among the Sea Peoples, and tests whether such a drought pattern is physically possible using Palmer drought indices from 35 weather stations in 1951–1976. **Late Bronze Age collapseSecondary source** Articledoi: **[10.1007/BF02423389](https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02423389)** Checked against the original0 ## What it's used for here The early climate-and-migration reading of the Sea Peoples. ## Cited by on this site 1 record [The Late Bronze Age collapse](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/bronze-age-collapse) The mystery article MYS ## Cite it ``` Weiss, B. (1982). The decline of Late Bronze Age civilization as a possible response to climatic change. Climatic Change 4(2), 173–198. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02423389 ``` [Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02423389) Key **SRC** 0D464EXJ2EHD Kind Journal article Rights The publisher's Kept 27 Oct 2026, for editors Checked Against the published article Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) The record Bibliographic records are CC0. Take this one as CSL-JSON, BibTeX or RIS. [CSL-JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0D464EXJ2EHD/the-decline-of-late-bronze-age-civilization-as-a-possible/csl.json)