Getting closer to the Late Bronze Age collapse in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean, c. 1200 BC

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Antiquity, vol. 98, no. 397, 260-263

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• entity Palace of Nestor at Pylos
  informs · provides relative and absolute chronology
• event Final destruction of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · provides relative and phase chronology · discussion of Palace of Nestor
• date assertion Final destruction of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · provides relative and phase chronology · discussion of Palace of Nestor
• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · provides relative and phase chronology · discussion of Palace of Nestor
• causal hypothesis One unified Sea Peoples invasion destroyed the eastern Mediterranean
  Unsupported explanationConfidence in this assessment: ◈ very lowConfidence in this assessment, not in the proposed story
  informs · supports destruction reassessment
• property Continuity through transformation
  informs · supports non catastrophist framework
• causal hypothesis A single regional drought directly destroyed the Mycenaean palaces
  Unsupported explanationConfidence in this assessment: ◈ lowConfidence in this assessment, not in the proposed story
  informs · supports staggered destructions and internal factors
• causal hypothesis Regionally staggered multi-causal cascade
  Evidence confidence: ◈ very high
  informs · supports staggered event structure
• claim There was no single, securely demonstrated, synchronous destruction horizon across the eastern Mediterranean around 1200 BCE.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ very high
  supports · supports · 61 percent false destructions; non-synchronous palace destructions