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vartan 18:06 07-16-2010

Originally Posted by MisterFred:
Depends on who you ask. I had two professors cover them. The first was in favor of the Sardinain/Western Med. islander theory. The second insisted we couldn't be certain, but suggested he believed it was a series of migrations and conflicts from a variety of sources. (Dorics pushing Myceneans abroad, possibly in conjunction with migrations from the Western Med., Greeks pushing Anatolian peoples out, etc.)

The main argument I can think of against a Phoenician origin for the "Sea Peoples" is that the Egyptians were fairly familiar with the Levant, so might be expected to use a less generic term when referring to them.

At any rate, I would only see any Greeks as potential Sea Peoples if and only if they had iron weaponry. Egypt was hacked by the Phoenician iron works, and I don't know if Greeks had that sort of tech then.

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