Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-381) and index.
Contents
The archaeological identification of migration and other ranges of interregional interactions -- Setting the scene : the Mycenaean palatial culture and the outside world -- The twelfth-century-BCE Aegean : political and social background -- Preconditions for migration -- Along the routes -- Strictly business? : the southern Levant and the Aegean in the thirteenth to the early twelfth century BCE -- The material culture change in twelfth-century Philistia -- The Philistine society and the settlement process -- A short history of the Aegean immigration to the Levant.