The role of drought, in particular, is likely to be better characterized as more high-resolution climate records become available from the relevant region and time period.

And traditional archaeological research continues.

The excavation of new sites, the application of new analytical methods to existing assemblages, and the continued refinement of the chronology of the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age all contribute to a picture that is constantly being updated.

The Human Story At The Center

At the end of all the discussion of genetics, archaeology, climate reconstructions, and textual analysis, it is worth returning to the human story at the center of the Sea Peoples phenomenon.

Between roughly 1200 and 1150 BCE, something terrible happened in the eastern Mediterranean world.