ARTH 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sea Peoples, Type B Cipher Machine
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The sea peoples: people coming from the sea and destroying. Textual/iconographic evidence from ramses iii: he defeats these people, sea peoples as prisoner. Papyrus harris 1: talks about exploits of same pharoah. These people settled in relatively restrictive area. Or indigenous people who adopted aegean styles. If it is intrusive it will probably show up in material culture. Linear script related to aegean linear a&b. Deep bowls: a drinking and food serving vessel: called the deep bowl. Architectural styles in ekron have megaron style building. Cooking practices change: aegean hearth and cooking pottery introduced and used alongside canaanite cooking traditions. King david defeats them in a number of battles and pushes them back to the coastal plane. Re-orient economy away from pigs and adopt oil, grain, phonecians stuf: merge into diferent material culture. Huge demand for cedars (of lebanon: ships, architecture, coffins, resin. Very smelly, get them alive, crush them violently and kill them.
