Bronze Age

A new essay argues the long-standing explanations for the Late Bronze Age collapse, around 1200 BC, deserve a rethink. The piece challenges popular accounts that blame the Sea Peoples, earthquakes or drought alone, and instead examines how interconnected trade networks and system-wide vulnerabilities may have combined to bring down multiple civilisations at once, including Egypt's neighbours, the Hittites and Mycenaean Greece.

The Archaeoethnologica blog has published a bilingual Portuguese-English piece on archaeometallurgy between East and West, examining metal production and exchange during the Bronze Age. The post, tagged under archaeology, protohistory, metallurgy and material culture, discusses how metallurgical techniques and materials moved between Eastern and Western regions in antiquity.

An archaeology blog has published a bilingual Portuguese-English piece on archaeometallurgy, examining Bronze Age metalworking and the exchange of metallurgical knowledge and material culture between Europe and the Near East. The article, shared among archaeology enthusiasts, explores how protohistoric societies across East and West developed and spread metal technologies, drawing interest from readers following ancient technology and heritage topics.