Centuries Of Darkness - Hardcover

Peter James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 022402647X ISBN 13: 9780224026475

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 1991

Synopsis

Centuries of Darkness : a challenge to the conventional chronology of Old World Archaeology

About this title

From Library Journal:

The authors of this text, originally published in England in 1991, are young scholars who present no less than a "chronological revolution." After tracing the development of Old World chronology, James and his colleagues review archaeological evidence and the lack of it from the Dark Age, the centuries-long period at the end of the Late Bronze Age c.1200 B.C. They include a wide geographical area--as far east as Iran and south to Nubia. Challenging the accepted Egyptian chronology, they argue for lower dates, which would instead put the end of the Late Bronze Age around 950 B.C., thus essentially eliminating the so-called Dark Age. The authors have done a masterful job of drawing together an enormous range of evidence; their conclusion is persuasive. Their challenge to Egyptian chronology cannot be ignored, and Egyptologists will have to address the flaws that they demonstrate. For students of ancient history and archaeology.
- Joan Gartland, Detroit P.L., Detroit, Mich.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 022402647X
• ISBN 13: 9780224026475
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 434