JOURNAL ARTICLE

FIFTEEN SIGNIFICANT DROUGHTS: RADIOCARBON DATING AND THE LAST YEARS OF THE HITTITE KINGDOM - VERSION 2.

  • Published In: Egypt & the Levant / Ägypten und Levante, 2025, v. 35. P. 201 1 of 3

  • Database: Humanities Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Hagens, Graham 3 of 3

Abstract

Examination of data available in a recent radiocarbon and dendro chronological study of an Anatollian tree which grew during the 13th to 12th centuries BCE, here leads to the argument that a series of fifteen significant droughts was the principal contribution to the century long decline and fall of the Hittite kingdom. This hypothesis also offers an improved understanding of the well known dysfunctionality experienced during the last decades of that kingdom, and its contemporaneous Late Bronze Age neighbours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Egypt & the Levant / Ägypten und Levante. 2025/01, Vol. 35, p201
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Language and Linguistics
  • Publication Date:2025
  • ISSN:10155104
  • Accession Number:192218688
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