secondary · SRC-CLINE-ASOR-2016
Who are the Sea Peoples and what role did they play in the devastation of civilizations that occurred shortly after 1200 BCE?
Eric H. Cline · 2016
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- scholarly_public_explainer
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- American Society of Overseas Research
- Peer reviewed
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- property Sea Peoplesinforms · defines and explains historiography · discussion of Maspero and the Merneptah/Ramesses III lists
- entity Sherdeninforms · provides attestations and context
- event Merneptah's Year 5 conflict with a Libyan-led coalitionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides date group list and outcome · Merneptah discussion
- date assertion Merneptah's Year 5 conflict with a Libyan-led coalition — date assertionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides date group list and outcome · Merneptah discussion
- entity Pelesetinforms · provides group list and conventional identification
- date assertion Ramesses III's Year 8 land and naval conflicts — date assertionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides group list and lower absolute date
- event Ramesses III's Year 8 land and naval conflictsEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides group list and lower absolute date
- date assertion Ramesses III's Year 8 land and naval conflicts — date assertionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · provides group list and lower absolute date
- property assignment Peleset — modern scholars classify as — Sea PeoplesEvidence confidence: highinforms · supports assignment and caveat · Ramesses III group list
- property assignment Sherden — modern scholars classify as — Sea PeoplesEvidence confidence: highinforms · supports assignment and role complexity
- causal hypothesis One unified Sea Peoples invasion destroyed the eastern MediterraneanUnsupported explanationConfidence in this assessment: very lowConfidence in this assessment, not in the proposed storyinforms · supports group heterogeneity and multi causality
- claim Sea Peoples is best treated as a modern, source-dependent umbrella classification rather than the name of one ancient nation.Evidence confidence: very highsupports · supports