Reminds me the argument of J.Spanuth, "Das enträtselte Atlantis", 1953, who
made
great furror as an amateur historian with his thesis, the Sea Peoples came
from
the "Nordsee". He was quoted with some respect even by such a reputed
specialist
as F. Sommer.
He followed too the trail of this new type of sword, with much enthusisasm
and
naivety back into the European north. But overlooked the statistical data
speaking against a northern not ANE-based origin of the new technology. The
number of such swords is by far bigger in the ANE, to see anything other
than
imports in the extra ANE specimens.
We probably should see the epycentrum of the new technology around Ugarit
and
Cylicia, in Ugarit where also a sword prepared to be sent to Menreptah was
found.
There is however quite a difference between pointing to the emergence of a
new
military technology and the historicity of the "Sea People´s" invasion.
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