alt Hacker NewsEric Cline, specifically 1177 BC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_H._Cline
that the article or the top post here doesn't cite him is unforgivable
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pfdietz • yesterday at 2:59 AM
Cline talks about, and dismisses, the theory that iron caused the LBA collapse. The timing doesn't work.
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I have read Cline's work. He is not the original source of the ideas on bronze to iron transition. This is a very well studied topic in archeological metallurgy.