Research on Bronze Age Anatolian populations has established the broad genetic contours of the region — showing that Bronze Age Anatolia had a genetic profile connected to both the Aegean and the Near East, reflecting centuries of population movement and gene flow across the region.

As more ancient genomes from Anatolian sites of the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age are analyzed, the genetic picture of what happened during the collapse and who moved where will become clearer.

The Sea And What It Made Possible

The role of maritime technology in the Sea Peoples phenomenon deserves specific attention, because the capacity to move large numbers of people across the sea was central to everything the Sea Peoples did.

The late Bronze Age was, by the standards of its era, a sophisticated maritime world.