Description
The end of the Late Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean, and particularly in Cyprus has been the focus of much international archaeological research during the last 25 years or more. Scholars have tried to interpret the cultural novelties that occurred round about 1200 BC in various ways, without achieving a consensus about their causes; these events have been associated by some with the so-called ‘Sea Peoples’, but others have interpreted them as the result of trade. This topic has a wider interest for Cyprus, where it has always been linked with the national identity of the Cypriots, a fact which rendered it even more complicated.
