Sea Peoples Research Articles

Встреча с ЮВА и ЮТР в самом западном крае России: Музей Мирового океана в г. Светлогорске

The article is a brief overview of the exhibition "People of the Sea" in the Museum of the World Ocean, presented at the International Exhibition Center in Svetlogorsk. The article is based on travel notes and impressions of the author after visiting this exhibition. It explains the history of its appearance, touches upon the person who started and arranged the basis of the collection, provides some information on the culture of the Southeast Asia countries mentioned in the exhibition, such as, for example, New Guinea or Indonesia. The article is illustrated with photographs of the exhibits from the museum website and from the author's personal archive.

Peter M. Fischer and Teresa Bürge (eds). Sea Peoples Up-to-Date. New Research on Transformations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 13th-11th Centuries BCE (Proceedings of the ESF-Workshop held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 3-4 November 20

This volume is the outcome of an international workshop held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna in November 2014. Since the first use of the term ‘Sea Peoples’ (People’s de la Mer) 1867 by French Egyptologist Emmanuel de Rougé, the topic has not lost its popularity, with plenty of attention in recent years, including now published workshops at Louvain-la-Neuve (in 2014) and Warsaw (in 2016). The present volume wanted to go beyond the information provided by the texts and aimed at presenting new archaeological data and their analysis, covering a wider geographical region and implying a more holistic approach than ever before. As the subtitle indicates, the specific aim of the volume is to study the various political, economic, social and cultural transformations in the Eastern Mediterranean from the 13th to 11th centuries BC that can be connected to the Sea Peoples phenomenon.

Pirates and Environmental Conservation Around Malacca Strait

Sea people are those whose lives depend on the sea. The Sea people under certain conditions will become pirates. Piracy has been around for a long time. The area which became the centers of pirate activity was around Malacca Strait. Malacca Strait is very strategic because it is in the shipping and trade lane that connects China, Archipelago, India, Persian Gulf and Europe. The bustling of trade and shipping activities invited the pirates presence. In 16th to 19th century, the pirates that found in Malacca Strait were originally Malay sea people who were around Sumatra waters. One of the reason why the Malays doing piracy was because the West people arrival. Despite being pirates they had an awarness to preserve the environment both at the sea and on the coast. Sea people’s behaviour and lifestyle emphasized that they had a close relationship with nature and maintain the environmental preservation

Breaking the Shell: Voyaging from Nuclear Refugees to People of the Sea in the Marshall Islands by Joseph H Genz

Breaking the Shell: Voyaging from Nuclear Refugees to People of the Sea in the Marshall Islands by Joseph H Genz

Scattered Abroad: The Ukrainian Theatrical Emigration Seen through the Fate of the Actor Fedir Fedorovych

The article concerns the life and activities of the actor FedirFedorovych. His fate was typical for a great number of Ukrainian intelligentsia, who found themselves in emigration after WWII, producing impact on the formation of Ukrainian diaspora culture. Purpose. The author’s intention has been to follow and analyze the main stages in the actor FedirFedorovych’s creative activities within the context of the Ukrainian theater’s development. The research is based on studying the contemporary press and the Fedorovyches’ family archive. Methods. The author has used the cultural-historical method, which implies searching and collecting information concerning the exact object, processing this information, analyzing its correlation with historical and cultural background, and defining the significance of the actor’s activities for development of the theater art in a certain period. Results. The early period of Fedorovych’s activities was closely connected with Kharkiv. The actor was born in the town of Uman in 1895. He took part in the fighting during the First World War. In 1920 he studied at the workshop under Kyidramte (Kyiv Drama Theater), under the guidance of Les Kurbas. Later he acted on stages of the I. Franko Theater, the First Odessa Workers and Peasants’ Theater led by Ye. Kokhanenko, Chervonozavodsky Theater in Kharkiv, the Kharkiv Theater of the Revolution, the Leninist Komsomol Theater in this city. He played mostly character and comic personages in performances after Ukrainian and foreign playwrights. In 1940Fedorovych left Kharkiv for Chernivtsi, where the Leninist Komsomol Theater was transferred. After the Soviet Union got involved in WWII, Fedorovych returned to Kharkiv, staying there under the Nazis. At the time he worked at the T. Shevchenko Theater, then, in 1943, left the city together with the retreating Hitlerite troops. When Germany was defeated, Fedorovych experienced a lot of wandering, in the end finding himself in the “Orlyk” displaced persons’ camp, Bavaria, and founded a theater there. The latter existed until 1950. There Fedorovich as a director put on the stage a number of productions after “The Mistress of the Inn” by C. Goldoni; “Rosy Weaverbird” by Ya. Mamontov; “Martyn Borulia” by I. Karpenko-Karyi; “Going for the First Hangout” by S. Vasylchenko; and some others. In 1950Fedorovich, together with his family, was granted entrance to the U.S., where he organized an amateur theater in NewHaven, Conn. He also worked as both director and actor of the Ukrainian Opera Ensemble (NewYork, NY). Inthelatter, heplayedin “NatalkaPoltavka” byI. Kotliarevsky (1958); “TheMatchmakinginHoncharivka” byH. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko (1963); operas “The Black Sea People” by M. Lysenko (1965); “Cossacks in Exile” by S. Hulak-Artemovsky (1972). Novelty of research. This research is the first one to present an integral evaluation of FedirFedorovych’s creative activities as typical for a member of theatrical community of Ukraine. It also introduces the documents from the Fedorovyches’ family archive into scientific parlance. Conclusions. Fedir Fedorovych’s creative activities testify to the fact that a number of Ukrainian actors in exile proved to be able both to maintain the high level of acting, worked up in the native country, and to preserve the classical repertoire, thus passing their experience to the next generations.

The Occupational History of the Bronze Age Harbour City of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus

The present paper is a synthesis of nine seasons of excavations supported by geophysical surveys at the Late Bronze Age harbour city of Hala Sultan Tekke near Larnaca on the southern littoral of Cyprus. Conclusions and hypotheses dealing with the origin, the heydays and the decline of this eastern Mediterranean trade metropolis are presented in addition to a summary of the previous field reports. A summary of the results from excavations in the recently discovered extramural cemetery with numerous rich tombs, offering pits and wells is included. The city’s vast intercultural relationships, which are based on trade, and chronological and terminological issues are particularly considered. Special attention is devoted to the final decades of the life cycle of this city which fall into the period of years of a widespread crisis at the waning Bronze Age, characterised by the ‘Sea Peoples Phenomenon.

The Occupational History of the Bronze Age Harbour City of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus

The present paper is a synthesis of nine seasons of excavations supported by geophysical surveys at the Late Bronze Age harbour city of Hala Sultan Tekke near Larnaca on the southern littoral of Cyprus. Conclusions and hypotheses dealing with the origin, the heydays and the decline of this eastern Mediterranean trade metropolis are presented in addition to a summary of the previous field reports. A summary of the results from excavations in the recently discovered extramural cemetery with numerous rich tombs, offering pits and wells is included. The city’s vast intercultural relationships, which are based on trade, and chronological and terminological issues are particularly considered. Special attention is devoted to the final decades of the life cycle of this city which fall into the period of years of a widespread crisis at the waning Bronze Age, characterised by the ‘Sea Peoples Phenomenon.

The conditions for Philistine ethnogenesis

The origins of the Philistines have traditionally been understood within the context of a migration of “Sea Peoples” at the beginning of the Iron Age. However, excavations in other areas of the eastern Mediterranean have not yielded compelling evidence of a large-scale migration. We contend that migration is still the best explanation of the evidence, but the effect on the archaeological record of the disparate responses of the hostcommunities into which the immigrants settled has been overlooked. Whereas those immigrants who settled in places such as Cilicia, the Amuq Plain, and Phoenicia encountered a decentralized political landscape into which they were quickly absorbed, the immigrants who landed in the southern Levant faced a still-powerful Egypt which was able to confine them. Within a restricted space, the immigrant Sea Peoples and indigenous Canaanites were galvanized into a unique Philistine ethnos.

West Asian sources of the Eurasian component in Ethiopians: a reassessment

The presence of genomic signatures of Eurasian origin in contemporary Ethiopians has been reported by several authors and estimated to have arrived in the area from 3000 years ago. Several studies reported plausible source populations for such a signature, using haplotype based methods on modern data or single-site methods on modern or ancient data. These studies did not reach a consensus and suggested an Anatolian or Sardinia-like proxy, broadly Levantine or Neolithic Levantine as possible sources. We demonstrate, however, that the deeply divergent, autochthonous African component which accounts for ~50% of most contemporary Ethiopian genomes, affects the overall allele frequency spectrum to an extent that makes it hard to control for it and, at once, to discern between subtly different, yet important, Eurasian sources (such as Anatolian or Levant Neolithic ones). Here we re-assess pattern of allele sharing between the Eurasian component of Ethiopians (here called “NAF” for Non African) and ancient and modern proxies. Our results unveil a genomic legacy that may connect the Eurasian genetic component of contemporary Ethiopians with Sea People and with population movements that affected the Mediterranean area and the Levant after the fall of the Minoan civilization.

Sea Peoples of the Northern Levant? Aegean-Style Pottery from Early Iron Age Tell Tayinat, by Brian Janeway. Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant, Volume 7. Leiden: Brill, 2017. xvi + 207 pages. Paperback. $66.00.

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsSea Peoples of the Northern Levant? Aegean-Style Pottery from Early Iron Age Tell Tayinat, by Brian Janeway. Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant, Volume 7. Leiden: Brill, 2017. xvi + 207 pages. Paperback. $66.00.Shirly Ben-Dor EvianShirly Ben-Dor EvianThe Israel Museum, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University[email protected] Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research Volume 382November 2019 A journal of the American Schools of Oriental Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/705808 Views: 57Total views on this site Journal History This article was published in the Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research (1921-2021), which is continued by the Bulletin of the American Schools of Overseas Research (2022-present). © 2019 American Schools of Oriental Research. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Social and technological changes in the ceramic production of the Northern Levant during the LBA/IA transition: New evidence about the Sea People issue through archaeometry

The transition from the Late Bronze Age (LBA) to the Iron Age (IA) in the Levant is marked by the collapse of the Egyptian and Hittite empires, which dominated the political scene of the 14th–13th century BCE. The role of the Sea People, groups of migrants who were defeated by the Egyptian king Ramses III around 1175 BCE, is the focal point concerning this period. After the collapse of the LBA empires, written sources disappeared, and the archaeologists’ primary tool to define cultural processes is to analyze the evolution of pottery. Because of this, studies about the distribution of Aegeanizing ceramic production, considered here to have derived from the Sea People culture, can provide data that supports the impact of Iron Age events on local cultural development. The petrographic, mineralogical, and chemical analysis of LBA-IA I potteries from the site of Tell Afis have allowed us to identify the existence of an Aegeanizing production from the North Syrian coast. These finds and coeval local common and painted ware productions not only exhibit different compositional and stylistic features, but also singular technological traditions.

Book Review of Sea Peoples of the Northern Levant? Aegean-Style Pottery from Early Iron Age Tell Tayinat, by Brian Janeway

Book Review of Sea Peoples of the Northern Levant? Aegean-Style Pottery from Early Iron Age Tell Tayinat, by Brian Janeway

:“Sea Peoples” Up-to-Date: New Research on Transformations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 13th–11th Centuries bce; Proceedings of the ESF-Workshop Held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 3–4 November 2014

Previous articleNext article No Access“Sea Peoples” Up-to-Date: New Research on Transformations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 13th–11th Centuries bce; Proceedings of the ESF-Workshop Held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 3–4 November 2014, edited by Peter M. Fischer and Teresa Bürge. Denkschriften der Gesamtakademie 81; Contributions to the Chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean 35. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2017. 412 pp., 92 figs. Paperback €149.Jeffrey P. EmanuelJeffrey P. EmanuelHarvard University[email protected] Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research Volume 381May 2019 A journal of the American Schools of Oriental Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/702969 Views: 93Total views on this site Journal History This article was published in the Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research (1921-2021), which is continued by the Bulletin of the American Schools of Overseas Research (2022-present). © 2019 American Schools of Oriental Research. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

해양 재난에 대처하는 바닷사람들의 자세 - ‘수사체(水死體)’ 처리 과정을 중심으로 -

인간이 생각하지 못한 ‘뜻밖에 일어난 재앙과 고난’을 재난이라고 한다. 인간이 겪는 많은 재난 중 가장 큰 것은 ‘죽음’일 것이다. 육지를 기반으로 살아가는 사람들에 비해 바다를 기반으로 살아가는 사람들은 급작스러운 죽음을 맞을 가능성이 더 많다. 배 혹은 물속이라는 작업 공간 자체가 죽음과 맞닿아 있기 때문이다.BR 바다에 있는 시신들은 정상적인 죽음보다는 비정상적인 죽음을 당했을 가능성이 높다. 사람들은 비정상적인 죽음은 원한을 남기고 결국 재난을 일으킨다고 여긴다. 그래서 조선시대에는 급작스러운 죽음을 ‘여제’를 통해 해원하여 주었다. 지금도 해원에 대한 관념은 수사자 신체 처리 과정에 남아 있다.BR 수사체를 인양하는 것은 불행한 죽음을 수습하고자 하는 시도이다. 시신이 있어야 장례를 치룰 수 있기 때문이다. 장례를 치른다는 것은 비정상적인 죽음을 의례를 통해 정상적인 죽음으로 바꾸는 노력이다. 비정상적인 죽음을 정상적인 죽음으로 바꾸는 시도는 의례를 통한 해원 과정에서도 이루어지기도 한다. 장례와 해원은 비정상적인 죽음을 정상적인 죽음으로 바꾸어주고자 하는 노력이라 할 수 있다.BR 이러한 시도에는 ‘측은지심’이라고 하는 ‘진실한 마음’이 자리하고 있다. 사람에 대한 애틋한 마음을 담은 측은지심은 언젠가는 죽음을 맞이할 자기 자신을 위한 도 다른 표현이다. 이는 수습, 위로, 기억이라는 방식으로도 표현된다. 따라서 바닷사람들은 죽음을 진심으로 안타까워해주고, 위로해 주며, 기억하는 방식을 통해 해양 재난을 극복하고 예방하고 있는 것이다.

Bajo Taka Bonerate: Island People Around Selayar Marine Tourism

Bajo Taka Bonerate: Island People Around Selayar Marine Tourism Muh. Yamin Sani, H. Muhadjir Suni Abstract Selayar Islands is a regency well known for the last few years with its Taka Bonerate National Park as destination of marine tourism in South Sulawesi Province. The aim of the study was to identify the object of marine tourism and prepare the local community to participate in the development of marine tourism. The study used dialogic multilingual method or in-depth discourse in which the interviewer and the informant as an interviewee were in equal position. This made rapport possible. Observation was also used to observe the life of the community. The result of the study indicates that islands in the Taka Bonerate National Park are exotic islands marked by white sand and clear blue sea. Almost all islands in the Taka Bonerate National Park have diving spots with its wonderful and beautiful sea under water. . Several islands are inhabited by local community such as Bajonese known as people of the sea. This ethnic fully supports the marine tourism development. Full Text: PDF DOI: 10.15640/jthm.v7n1a5

Destruction at the End of the Late Bronze Age in Syria: A Reassessment

The theories explaining the end of the Late Bronze Age in Syria all have one common thread connecting them. This is the destruction of cities and towns, whether by Sea Peoples, raiders, earthquakes, or all of the above. The purpose of this article is to examine 14 commonly cited sites in Syria with an end of the Late Bronze Age “destruction”, asking how much evidence for destruction is there, what might have caused these destructions, and how does this empirical evidence fit into the current models and theories for the end of the Late Bronze Age in Syria?

North Pontic Indo-Europeans in Troy

The paper contains the text of author’s lecture at the conference “Trojan colloquium” which took place in Kyiv in May, 30th, 2018. The questions of connections between ancient Asia Minor population and North Pontic region are considered on the base of archaeological sources and Indo-European studies. The lower Troy layers contain the traces of several invasions of Anatolian group of Indo-European peoples from the Balkans (the Hittites, Palayans, Luwians) and also the Phrygian and Armenian ancestors. They had been formed in the Danube River region in the 4th millennium BCE under the influence of Chalcolithic migrants from the North-Western Pontic region. Migration of the Hittites-Luwians from Balkans to Asia Minor in the 3rd millennium BCE was a part of great spread of Indo-European tribes in the Chalcolithic-Bronze Era from two centers of Indo-European ethno-genesis which situated in the north of Central Europe and in the North Pontic region. The fall of Homer’s Troy (layer VІІа) clashes with the invasion of “sea people” and the destruction of the Hittite Kingdom (about 1200 BCE). A leading role, in opinion of I. Diakonov and L. Klein, in Troy’s fall and in the Hittite Empire disintegration was played not by Mycenaean Greeks, but by Phrygian and Armenian ancestors, militant “musks” of the Assyrian sources. During the invasion of “Sea Peoples” they came to Asia Minor from the West — from the Balkans. The beginning of the mentioned ethnic groups formation was linked with the Lower Danube and the North-Western Pontic region, in particular, with Usatovo-Chornavoda II cultures population. Traces of the contacts of native languages: Thracian, Phrygian, Armenian, Greek with the Indo-Iranians bind them to Northern Pontic region. Just here the majority of researchers place the Indo-Iranian motherland, the ancestors of whom they consider the Yamna and Catacomb cultures population. Archaeological and literary sources testify the participating in the Asia Minor ancient history of three more peoples from the North Pontic Steppe — Sabatinovka culture tribes, Cimmerians and Scythians. “Sabatinians” apparently took part in the invasion of “Sea Peoples” which is proved by finds of bronze weapons, typical for the final Bronze Age of the North Pontic region, at the Middle East territory. Cimmerians in 675 BCE destroyed the Phrygian state with the capital of Gordion and founded the Gammira state. The latter was destroyed in 605 BCE by Scythians who had come to Asia Minor, as well as the Cimmerians, through the Caucasus.

Troy in the Discourse of Ukrainian Archaeology

Troy (Illion, Vilusa) have entered the discourse of Ukrainian archaeology in the period of its revival after losses during the Great Terror period and World War II. The stratigraphic column of the cities of Troy has become the basic for clarifying of chronology of the Bronze Age sites on the territory of Ukraine and South of Eastern Europe in general. The search for analogies to certain categories of artifacts from the steppe zone in the stratified layers of Troy was also productive. Attention to the cultural complexes of Troy increased during the period of the restoration of Ukraine’s independence due to the discovery and excavation of fortified settlements of the Final Bronze Age along the North Pontic area and the Lower Dnieper basin (Dykyi Sad, in Mykolaiv; Kartal, at the Lower Danube River, etc.). Reliable materials appeared to synchronize the sites of the Northern Pontic region with the horizons of Troy VII. The possibilities of the participation of the Late Bronze Age steppe tribes in the campaigns of the “Sea Peoples”, which also touched the inhabitants of Troy in the 13th—12th centuries BCE now are under discussion. The concretization of the cultural connections between the bearers of archaeological cultures of the Bronze Age steppe zone and the appropriate cities of Troy is now acquiring a certain dynamic. Further progress in the study of the processes that took place in the Circumpontic area in the 3rd—2nd centuries BCE depends largely on the establishment of effective contacts between the archaeologists of Turkey and Ukraine. The revitalization should be facilitated by the materials of the Trojan colloquium held in Kyiv in May 2018. At the same time, the author warns native archaeologists against the abuse of the Troy name during the presentation of archaeological sites of our country.

Perubahan Pola Permukiman Orang Laut Suku Duano

This paper examines changes in Orang Laut settlements in two villages namely Tanjung Solok Village and Jambi Province Fisheries Village. Changes occurred from settlements on boats in the sea to settlements inside houses in the village. The research method used is an ethnographic research method whose characteristics are "researching informants - as subjects of research-in their daily environment". The researcher and the object under study interact intensely through in-depth observation of the object in accordance with the research objectives. In the two villages studied, the facts of the changes that have taken place over the past 30 years have been found, due to the incessant government programs to "settle" the Sea People to the mainland. Changes in the lives of the Orang Laut in the new and permanent villages have caused the loss of traditional knowledge of the Orang Laut in the maritime field. They changed from the Sea People who lived in a sea that was modest and full of wisdom to the sea and coastal ecosystems to become Sea People who lived on land with complex life, carried by the current of modernization and exploiting and destroying marine and coastal ecosystems.

La reanudación de los intercambios entre el Mediterráneo Oriental y el Occidental después de la crisis del siglo XII AC. Un fragmento de cerámica a torno pintada del Heládico/Minoico Final IIIC en Huelva (1150-1050 AC)

As a result of a salvage excavation in Palos dela Fronterastreet in the city of Huelva in the mid-seventies of the 20th century, a fragment of a Middle Geometric II crater was located. Years later we identified a wheel-made painted pottery that due a its thickness seems to belong to a transport jar that contained some type of drink. It may be a Philistine production of the Late Helladic IIIC Early 2 that continued during the Late Helladic IIIC Middle, 1153-1070 BC. Another alternative would be a transport jar of the Late Minoan IIIC, 1190-1070 BC. This import suggests the resumption of the route between the Eastern Mediterranean, Phoenicia, Cyprus and Crete, with the Western Mediterranean after the crisis of the Peoples of the Sea in the first half of the 12th century BC.Key words: Iberian Peninsula, Huelva, Late Bronze Age, wheelmade painted pottery.