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The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C.

Robert Drews, 1993. Princeton University Press.

Argues that raiders from the margins of the kingdoms overthrew them by defeating chariot armies with massed infantry armed with javelins and long swords, and that the raiders were the cause of the catastrophe rather than a result of it.

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The military-technology reading of the invasion explanation.

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Drews, R. (1993). The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C.. Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/isbn/9780691209975
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