Mediterranean peoples in transition : thirteenth to early tenth centuries BCE / editors Symour Gitin, Amihai Mazar and Ephraim Stern.

"In honor of Professor Trude Dothan."

"First international symposium held by the Philip and Muriel Berman Center for Biblical Archaeology ..."

Includes bibliographical references.

"Bibliography: Book and articles by Trude Dothan": pages xvi-xix.

Chapter I: Tradition and change in the Mediterranean basin -- The ups and downs of Mycenae: 1250-1150 BCE / Elizabeth B. French -- The thirteenth century changes in Cyprus in their East Mediterranean context / Gerald Cadogan -- The Mycenaeans in Western Anatolia and the problem of the origins of the Sea Peoples / Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier -- Variety and function of the Aegean derivative pottery in the Central Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age / Lucia Vagnetti -- Chapter II: Mechanisms of identity and cultural transformation -- Continuity or discontinuity: indigenous and foreign elements in Cyprus around 1200 BCE / Paul Åström -- Reflections on the ethnicity of Cyprus in the eleventh century BCE / Ora Negbi -- Cypriote figural bronzes: questions about Mycenaean civilization and Sea People / Guenter Kopcke -- Sea Peoples in Cyprus and Israel: a comparative study of immigration processes / Shlomo Bunimovitz -- The last Mycenaeans and their successors updated / Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy -- Aegeans in the Levant: myth and reality / Christos G. Doumas -- Chapter III: Philistia: chronology and cultural affinities -- Philistine chronology: high, middle or low? / Israel Finkelstein -- Initial Philistine settlement: from migration to coexistence / Trude Dothan -- Philistia in transition: the tenth century BCE and beyond / Seymour Gitin -- Chapter IV: Egyptians, Canaanites, Israelites, and Ammonites -- Egyptian relations with the Eastern Mediterranean world at the end of the second millennium BCE / James M. Weinstein -- The destruction of Megiddo at the end of the Late Bronze Age and its historical significance / David Ussishkin -- The Israelite origins and the "nomadic ideal": can archaeology separate face from fiction? / William G. Dever -- The Iron Age I culture in the hill-country of Canaan-A Manassite perspective / Adam Zertal -- Tell el-Umayri and the Madaba Plains region during the Late Bronze-Iron Age I transition / Larry G. Herr --

Chapter V: Alternative perspectives for understanding the Late Bronze-Age-Early Iron Age transition -- The Sea Peoples, the Victorians and us: modern social ideology and changing archaeological interpretations of the Late Bronze Age collapse / Neil Asher Silberman -- Hrarths and bathtubs in Cyprus: a "Sea Peoples'" innovation? / Vassos Karageorghis -- Surviving the collapse: the oikos and structural continuity between Late Bronze Age and later Greece / David B. Small -- "Sea Peoples" and the economic structure of the late second millennium in the Eastern Mediterranean / Susan Sherratt -- Copper, tin, silver and iron: the search for metallic ores as an incentive for foreign expansion / James D. Muhly -- Chapter VI: The crystallization of new societies -- Philistia and Cyprus in the eleventh century: from a similar prehistory to a diverse protohistory / Maria Iacovou -- The relations between the Sea Peoples and the Phoenicians in the twelfth and eleventh centuries BCE / Ephraim Stern -- The first exchanges between Euboeans and Phoenicians: who took the initiative / Nicolas Coldstream -- Chapter VII: Pottery and culture change: some new analyses -- On the appearance of red slip in the Iron Age I period in Israel / Amihai Mazar -- Ceramic typology and technology of Late Bronze II and Iron I assemblages from Tel Miqne-Ekron: the transition from Canaanite to PHilistine culture / Ann Killebrew -- Petrographic analysis of the Egyptian forms from Stratum VI at Tel Beth-Shean / Anat Cohen-Weinberger -- Iron Age I-IIA pottery evolution at Dor-Regional contexts and the Cypriot connection / Ayelet Gilboa -- Chapter VIII: Coastal trade, commerce and settlement -- Near eastern harbors: thirteenth-seventh centuries BCE / Avner Raban -- Routes, trade, boats and "nomads of the sea" / Michal Artzy -- An Iron Age I site at En Ḥagit (Northern Ramat Manashe) / Samuel Wolfff -- Chapter IX: Canaanites and Israelites in the north of Israel -- The fall of Canaanite Hazor-the "who" and "when" questions / Amnon Ben-Tor -- The eleventh century BCE tripartite pillar building at Tel Hadar / Moshe Kochavi -- Biblical Dan and the House of David inscription: from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age / Avraham Biran.