The Crisis years : the 12th century B.C. : from beyond the Danube to the Tigris / edited by William A. Ward, and Martha Sharp Joukowsky ; with contributions by Paul Åström ... [et al.].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From Bronze Age to Iron Age in Western Asia : defining the problem / William W. Hallo -- The crisis years in the Mediterranean world : transition or cultural disintegration? / J.D. Muhly -- Continuity, discontinuity, catastrophe, nucleation : some remarks on terminology / Paul Åström -- Crisis years? : the 12th century B.C. in central and southeastern Europe / Peter S. Wells -- Italy and the central Mediterranean in the crisis years / R. Ross Holloway -- The last days of Khattusha / H.A. Hoffner, Jr. -- Survival of the Hittite Dynasty / Hans G. Güterbock -- Observations on western Anatolia / G. Kenneth Sams -- Cultural novelties in the post-palatial Aegean world : indices of vitality or decline? / Jeremy Rutter -- The crisis years : Cyprus / Vassos Karageorghis -- The crisis years : Cyprus, a rejoinder / R.S. Merrillees -- Social dislocation and cultural change in the 12th century B.C.E. / Trude Dothan.

(cont.) The Late Bronze-- early Iron I Horizon in Syria-Palestine : Egyptians, Canaanites, Sea Peoples, and proto-Israelites / William G. Dever -- The end of the kingdom of Ugarit / Marguerite Yon -- Reoccupation of the Syrian Coast after the destruction of the "crisis years" / Annie Caubet -- The Phoenicians / Patricia Maynor Bikai -- The collapse of the Egyptian empire in the Southern Levant / James Weinstein -- Egypt in the 12th century B.C. / Leonard H. Lesko -- The 12th century B.C. in Syria : the problem of the rise of the Aramaeans / Hélène Sader -- Twelfth century B.C. Syria : comments on H. Sader's paper / Thomas L. McClellan -- 12th century B.C. Babylonia : continuity and change / Richard L. Zettler -- Sidelights on life in the 13th and 12th centuries B.C. in Assyria / Edith Porada -- The Mediterranean synthesis / Cyrus H. Gordon.