The False Mediterranean Bronze Age Chronology
Why its Correction Matters to Historians of all Areas. Everyone has heard of the post-Roman empire Dark Age, fewer of the Mediterranean Bronze Age Dark Age. In 1991 Peter James and a team of specialists in ancient Mediterranean history encapsulated the growing doubts of many historians about the conventional chronology of the Mediterranean Bronze Age…
The Indian Ocean: Cradle and Catalyst of Civilisation – from the Ice Age on
During the Ice Age, significant human development was largely confined to regions bordering the Indian Ocean, characterised by temperate, balmy, or Mediterranean climates, yet dominated by monsoons. These conditions fostered early cultural advances in a region uniquely suited for human progress. The dominant landmasses included the Indian subcontinent, Sundaland (now the Indonesian archipelago), and an…
Nick Collins 