People move, adapt, integrate, and become part of the place they have come to.

The distinctiveness of the first generation gives way to the integration of the third and fourth.

The genetic signal that marks the first arrivals becomes diluted in the subsequent generations.

This is the human pattern, repeated across history.

The Bronze Age Collapse was an extreme version of it — a mass displacement driven by catastrophic forces, affecting populations across a vast geographic range simultaneously.

But the individual human experiences that composed it were the same experiences of migration that have always characterized human history: the leaving, the crossing, the arriving, the adapting, the becoming.