claim · claim_no_single_destruction_horizon
There was no single, securely demonstrated, synchronous destruction horizon spanning the entire eastern Mediterranean around 1200 BCE.
There was no single, securely demonstrated, synchronous destruction horizon spanning the entire eastern Mediterranean around 1200 BCE.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: preferred. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
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Properties and assignments
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Historiographic Reassessment
A record that materially revises, audits, or rejects long-repeated interpretations or chronology.
Why does this record have this property?
This claim revises or audits a conventional collapse narrative using explicit chronological and evidential reassessment.
- Crisis in Context: The End of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean
supports assignment - Destruction and Its Impact on Ancient Societies at the End of the Bronze Age
supports assignment - Getting Closer to the Late Bronze Age Collapse in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, c. 1200 BC
supports assignment - Synchronizing the Destructions of the Mycenaean Palaces
supports assignment
Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
- supports · supports
Crisis in Context: The End of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean — A. Bernard Knapp, Sturt W. Manning (2016)Supports the claim: There was no single, securely demonstrated, synchronous destruction horizon spanning the entire eastern Mediterranean around 1200 BCE.
- supports · supports
Destruction and Its Impact on Ancient Societies at the End of the Bronze Age — Jesse Michael Millek (2023)Supports the claim: There was no single, securely demonstrated, synchronous destruction horizon spanning the entire eastern Mediterranean around 1200 BCE.
- supports · supports
Getting Closer to the Late Bronze Age Collapse in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, c. 1200 BC — Guy D. Middleton (2024)Supports the claim: There was no single, securely demonstrated, synchronous destruction horizon spanning the entire eastern Mediterranean around 1200 BCE.
- supports · supports
Synchronizing the Destructions of the Mycenaean Palaces (2022)Supports the claim: There was no single, securely demonstrated, synchronous destruction horizon spanning the entire eastern Mediterranean around 1200 BCE.
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