The Bronze Age Collapse
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Bronze Age Collapse, the
name given by many historians to what appears to have been a sudden,
uncontrolled destruction of dominant civilizations around 1200 BC in the
Aegean, Eastern
Mediterranean and Anatolia. Among other areas, there were great changes
in Minoan Crete, Egypt, the Hittite Empire, Mycenaean Greece and Syria.
The reasons for the changes, and the extent of those changes, are open
to debate and include droughts, rebellions, the breakdown of trade as
copper became less desirable, earthquakes, invasions, volcanoes and the
mysterious Sea Peoples.
With
John Bennet
Director of the British School at Athens and Professor of Aegean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield
Director of the British School at Athens and Professor of Aegean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield
Linda Hulin
Fellow of Harris Manchester College and Research Officer at the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology at the University of Oxford
Fellow of Harris Manchester College and Research Officer at the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology at the University of Oxford
And
Simon Stoddart
Fellow of Magdalene College and Reader in Prehistory at the University of Cambridge
Fellow of Magdalene College and Reader in Prehistory at the University of Cambridge
Producer: Simon Tillotson.
Credits
Role | Contributor |
---|---|
Presenter | Melvyn Bragg |
Producer | Simon Tillotson |
Interviewed Guest | John Bennet |
Interviewed Guest | Linda Hulin |
Interviewed Guest | Simon Stoddart |
Broadcasts
- Friday 15 June 09:00
- Friday 15 June 21:30
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