The Sea Peoples: The Ancient Mystery That Stumped Historians For Centuries — And What Modern Science Finally Revealed About Who They Really Were
This is also consistent with the complexity of the Late Bronze Age world itself.
The Aegean during the Mycenaean period was a network of palace-based societies connected by sea trade, not a homogeneous ethnicity.
The people of Mycenae, of Pylos, of the island communities, of the Cyclades, and of Cyprus spoke related but not identical dialects, maintained complex political and economic relationships, and moved across the sea in ways that made sharp ethnic boundaries difficult to draw.
The people who came to be called Peleset were probably not from a single Aegean city or island, but from a zone of cultural and genetic connection that spanned the southern and eastern Aegean and Cyprus.
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