property · prop_administrative_collapse
Administrative Collapse
Loss of a central administrative system, archive, bureaucracy, or redistributive apparatus without implying population disappearance.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. 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.
Research description
Loss of a central administrative system, archive, bureaucracy, or redistributive apparatus without implying population disappearance.
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports property definition
Crisis in Context: The End of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean — A. Bernard Knapp, Sturt W. Manning (2016)Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Administrative Collapse.
- supports · supports property definition
Getting Closer to the Late Bronze Age Collapse in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, c. 1200 BC — Guy D. Middleton (2024)Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Administrative Collapse.
- supports · supports property definition
The Aegean from Bronze Age to Iron Age: Continuity and Change between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries BC — Oliver Dickinson (2006)Supports the definition or scholarly use of the property Administrative Collapse.