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It's entirely possible that the Sea People were remnants of the Minoan civilisation who suffered massive famine after the explosion of the volcano of Thera. It's likely that this was a dispersed civilisation around the coasts and islands of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, all of which would have been disrupted to a greater extent by tsunami in the aftermath of the explosion.

This led to a collapse of the existing "Heroic" Greek civilisations of the middle bronze age. Several of these kingdoms appeared to have died out, Sparta probably being one of them. The later Spartans were supposedly arrivals from the Balkans who took on the mantle of the original but who were apparently unrelated to them.

But whatever the theories, however much there is interesting linkage in the fossil record, we lack anything like real proof.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Oct 31st, 2017 at 04:43:55 PM EST
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Wait a minute. I though they were descended from Abraham. See 1 Maccabees 12:21 for proof.
by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Tue Oct 31st, 2017 at 05:08:42 PM EST
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Ah, my mistake, who could possibly argue with proof like that

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Oct 31st, 2017 at 05:15:20 PM EST
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yes!
That is one period in play these last 30 years because continuing excavation of artifacts located the several "palace" destructions, Crete, "Syro-Palastine" and Pelopponese PLUS documentary evidence (translations of cunieform various lang that had languished in obscure museum vaults) indicate earlier settler/colonization of those territories by city-states migration and conquest from points SE and NE of the Levant, north and southern Mediterranean coasts and deltas, and even the Balkans, if you will: re ipsa loquitor.

Fossil forensic analysis is redundant; recent (m)DNA sequencing [1, 2] confirmed the obvious inadequacies of stereotyping by "nationality" or naming conventions, now or at any time in the past 10,000 years.

Historical linguists have paid a lot more attention to documents to decipher how, where, when, and why people adopt names for themselves and places in their possession. Corporate M&A ritual in the present day as it always has been -- especially in Greece considering legendary invasions of the inexhaustible "tribes".

"Minoan" material culture scarcely anymore conveys the meaning of originality given to it by european scholarship at peak imperial hegemony and idolatry of the "Heroic Age" of Greece.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Wed Nov 1st, 2017 at 08:39:06 PM EST
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