Mait Kõiv and Raz Kletter: Introduction

Sebastian Fink and Vladimir Sazonov: The 12th Century Collapse and Assyria: Turning Point or “Usual Crisis”

Joanna Töyräänvuori: Rebuilding Society: Changes in the Political Organisation of Northern Syria following the Late Bronze Age Collapse

Raz Kletter: The Case of Judah

Łukasz Niesiołowski-Spanò: Southern Canaan in the Early Iron Age: The Sea Peoples, Canaanites, and the Beginnings of the Kingdom of Israel (ca. 1150–850 BCE)

Andres Nõmmik: Differences in the Development of the Early Iron Age Settlements in Philistia

Maria Iacovou: The Cyprus Response “from within”: A Region-specific Landscape Approach to the Island’s Political Geography (12th–6th Centuries BCE)

Carol Bell and Jonathan R. Wood: Reflections on the Westward Expansion of the Phoenicians in the Early Iron Age: The Search for Silver and Technology Transfer

Saro Wallace: Technology and Crisis: Drivers of Aegean / East Mediterranean Innovation from c. 1200 BCE

Julien Zurbach: Some Perspectives on Labour Mobilization before and after the Palaces

Kurt A. Raaflaub: The Emergence of Participatory Communities in Early Greece

Mait Kõiv: From Palatial Monarchy to Monarchic City-state in the Argive Plain (12th–6th Centuries BC)

Hans van Wees: An Elite in the Making: The North Cemetery at Corinth, 800–500 BCE

Kathryn Lomas: Inscriptions and Public Display: Literacy and Pepresentations of Power in South East Italy in the 6th Century BCE

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