Bronze Age World

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relationship End of New Kingdom central rule and divided authority — occurred at or involved — Pi-Ramesses / Qantir
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes continuity · Institutional and local resilience
Supports separation of political and social collapse.
relationship New Kingdom Egypt — involved or associated with — End of New Kingdom central rule and divided authority
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes continuity · Institutional and local resilience
Supports separation of political and social collapse.
relationship Tanite Dynasty 21 kingship — involved or associated with — End of New Kingdom central rule and divided authority
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes continuity · Institutional and local resilience
Supports separation of political and social collapse.
relationship Theban domain of Amun and high-priestly government — involved or associated with — End of New Kingdom central rule and divided authority
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes continuity · Institutional and local resilience
Supports separation of political and social collapse.
event End of New Kingdom central rule and divided authority
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes continuity · Institutional and local resilience
Supports separation of political and social collapse.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes continuity · Institutional and local resilience
Supports separation of political and social collapse.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes continuity · Institutional and local resilience
Supports separation of political and social collapse.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes continuity · Institutional and local resilience
Supports separation of political and social collapse.
date assertion End of New Kingdom central rule and divided authority — date assertion
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes continuity · Institutional and local resilience
Supports separation of political and social collapse.
relationship End of New Kingdom central rule and divided authority — occurred at or involved — Thebes
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes continuity · Institutional and local resilience
Supports separation of political and social collapse.
relationship End of New Kingdom central rule and divided authority — occurred at or involved — Tanis
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes continuity · Institutional and local resilience
Supports separation of political and social collapse.
relationship Ramesses XI — involved or associated with — End of New Kingdom central rule and divided authority
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes continuity · Institutional and local resilience
Supports separation of political and social collapse.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes exceptional archive · Deir el-Medina and microhistory
Supports evidentiary value and representativeness caution.
relationship Documented work stoppage by Deir el-Medina crews — occurred at or involved — Deir el-Medina
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes exceptional archive · Deir el-Medina and microhistory
Supports evidentiary value and representativeness caution.
relationship Deir el-Medina community — involved or associated with — Documented work stoppage by Deir el-Medina crews
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes exceptional archive · Deir el-Medina and microhistory
Supports evidentiary value and representativeness caution.
relationship Ramesses III — involved or associated with — Documented work stoppage by Deir el-Medina crews
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes exceptional archive · Deir el-Medina and microhistory
Supports evidentiary value and representativeness caution.
relationship Deir el-Medina ostraca and papyri — documented or interpreted through — Documented work stoppage by Deir el-Medina crews
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes exceptional archive · Deir el-Medina and microhistory
Supports evidentiary value and representativeness caution.
date assertion Documented work stoppage by Deir el-Medina crews — date assertion
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes exceptional archive · Deir el-Medina and microhistory
Supports evidentiary value and representativeness caution.
event Documented work stoppage by Deir el-Medina crews
Evidence confidence: high
informs · contextualizes exceptional archive · Deir el-Medina and microhistory
Supports evidentiary value and representativeness caution.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides archive context · Ramesside tomb-robbery papyri discussion
Supports social and administrative interpretation.
relationship Research record — associated with
Evidence confidence: high
informs · provides archive context · Ramesside tomb-robbery papyri discussion
Supports social and administrative interpretation.
property Exceptional non-elite or community archive
Evidence confidence: high
supports · defines and contextualizes · Exceptional archives and representativeness
Supports the definition and its limits.
property Continuity through fragmentation
Evidence confidence: high
supports · defines and contextualizes · Methodological discussion
Supports the definition and its limits.
relationship Deir el-Medina ostraca and papyri — documented or interpreted through — Late Ramesside tomb-robbery investigations
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides archive context · Ramesside tomb-robbery papyri discussion
Supports social and administrative interpretation.
relationship Ramesses XI — involved or associated with — Late Ramesside tomb-robbery investigations
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides archive context · Ramesside tomb-robbery papyri discussion
Supports social and administrative interpretation.
event Late Ramesside tomb-robbery investigations
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides archive context · Ramesside tomb-robbery papyri discussion
Supports social and administrative interpretation.
date assertion Late Ramesside tomb-robbery investigations — date assertion
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides archive context · Ramesside tomb-robbery papyri discussion
Supports social and administrative interpretation.
relationship Late Ramesside tomb-robbery investigations — occurred at or involved — Thebes
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides archive context · Ramesside tomb-robbery papyri discussion
Supports social and administrative interpretation.
relationship Late Ramesside tomb-robbery investigations — occurred at or involved — Valley of the Kings
Evidence confidence: high
supports · provides archive context · Ramesside tomb-robbery papyri discussion
Supports social and administrative interpretation.
property assignment Deir el-Medina ostraca and papyri — classified as — Exceptional non-elite or community archive
Evidence confidence: high
supports · supports assignment · Relevant evidence and interpretation
Supports analytical assignment.
claim The end of the New Kingdom was a transformation of central power and institutions, not the disappearance of Egyptian civilization.
Evidence confidence: high
supports · supports claim · Local institutions and archives
Supports the claim and its qualifications.
claim Tombs, temples and royal monuments disproportionately shape the surviving evidence for ancient Egypt.
Evidence confidence: near certain
supports · supports claim · Balancing official and local evidence
Supports the claim and its qualifications.
claim Ancient and modern looting has removed objects, contexts and inscriptions essential to chronology and social history.
Evidence confidence: near certain
supports · supports claim · Tomb-robbery papyri
Supports the claim and its qualifications.
claim Evidence for farmers, fishers, pastoralists, craftspeople, women, dependent people and households is highly uneven across periods and regions.
Evidence confidence: near certain
supports · supports claim · Common people and exceptional archives
Supports the claim and its qualifications.
date assertion Deir el-Medina ostraca and papyri — date assertion
Evidence confidence: high
supports · supports entity · Relevant discussion or corpus description
Supports the entity and its interpretive limits.
entity Deir el-Medina ostraca and papyri
Evidence confidence: high
supports · supports entity · Relevant discussion or corpus description
Supports the entity and its interpretive limits.
causal hypothesis Multicausal transformation at the end of the New Kingdom
Evidence confidence: moderate
supports · supports local mechanisms · Late Ramesside archives
Supports fiscal and institutional evidence.
relationship Deir el-Medina ostraca and papyri — produced by and preserved for — Deir el-Medina community
Evidence confidence: high
supports · supports relationship · Deir el-Medina archive
Supports the relationship and its qualifications.