Abstract The Late Bronze Age crisis has traditionally been considered a turning point in the
recent prehistory of the eastern Mediterranean. Between the 13th and 11th centuries BC, the
Aegean area experienced a dramatic reduction in the annual precipitation, the destruction or
shrinkage of a large number of urban centres, critical demographic constrictions, an
increase in struggles, and changes in settlement patterns. Various hypotheses have been
proposed to explain these transformations; however, very few studies have explicitly …