event · evt_phoenician_reorganization
Continuity and Reorientation of Levantine Coastal Cities into Phoenician Polities
Several coastal cities persisted or recovered and became the centres of expanding Phoenician exchange networks.
What is the evidence?
observed evidence
- Urban continuity at key coastal centres
- Later expansion of maritime exchange and colonization
proposed causes
consequences
The long-term transformation is clear, but this release needs more site-specific Phoenician primary literature.
Inspect the sources →Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: reviewed for v0.1. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1150 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: broad historical range
moderatesettlement, textual and trade evidence
- informs · supports
Crisis in Context: The End of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean — A. Bernard Knapp, Sturt W. Manning (2016)
Locator: Levantine aftermath synthesis - informs · provides context
The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and Change between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries BC — Oliver Dickinson (2006)
Locator: Mediterranean recovery context
Event context
People and places
Locations: Northern Levant
Participants: Phoenician City-States
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Post-Crisis Recovery and Reconfiguration
Growth, institutional reorganization, or restored connectivity following earlier contraction or collapse.
Why does this record have this property?
Coastal Levantine communities reorganized into Early Iron Age political and maritime systems.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides context
The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and Change between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries BC — Oliver Dickinson (2006)Source relationship recorded for Continuity and Reorientation of Levantine Coastal Cities into Phoenician Polities.
Locator: Mediterranean recovery context - supports · supports
Crisis in Context: The End of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean — A. Bernard Knapp, Sturt W. Manning (2016)Source relationship recorded for Continuity and Reorientation of Levantine Coastal Cities into Phoenician Polities.
Locator: Levantine aftermath synthesis
Referenced records
- Northern Levant · entity
- Phoenician City-States · entity