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The timelines do not match. OP's event took place in 1650BCE, while the Bronze Age collapse was 450 years later, in 1200BCE. Those dates are separated signifi
by q1w2 5y ago
The timelines do not match. OP's event took place in 1650BCE, while the Bronze Age collapse was 450 years later, in 1200BCE.
Those dates are separated significantly beyond their margins of error.
- asdff 5y agoI've read that this impact was thought to kick up water vapor from the dead sea and salt the surface of the earth in this area enough that agriculture would be nonviable for hundreds of years in the region. That's enough of an impetus to throw the social order out of whack with a whole sector of the economy eliminated, a pretty important one at that. I wouldn't be surprised if the survivors in this region had to resort to raiding further and further out for resources, eventually being known as these fabled "sea peoples" if their land was barren in this way over these same centuries.
- taurath 5y agoSorry I must have misread the paper I thought it said 1200BCE! Don’t HN late at night kids