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In this study, Assaf Yasur-Landau examines the early history of the biblical Philistines who were among the 'Sea Peoples' who migrated from the Aegean area to the Levant during the early twelfth century BC. Creating an archaeological narrative of the migration of the Philistines, he combines an innovative theoretical framework on the archaeology of migration with new data from excavations in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel and thereby reconstructs the social history of the Aegean migration to the southern Levant. The author follows the story of the migrants from the conditions that caused the Philistines to leave their Aegean homes, to their movement eastward along the sea and land routes, to their formation of a migrant society in Philistia and their interaction with local populations in the Levant. Based on the most up-to-date evidence, this book offers a new and fresh understanding of the arrival of the Philistines in the Levant.

Philistines --- Social archaeology --- Land settlement --- Bronze age --- History --- Migrations --- Antiquities --- Aegean Sea Region --- Middle East --- Emigration and immigration --- Civilization --- Archaeology --- Ethnology --- Resettlement --- Settlement of land --- Colonies --- Land use, Rural --- Human settlements --- Methodology --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- Orient --- Antiquities. --- History. --- Asia, West --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Bronze age. --- Migrations. --- Aegean Sea Region. --- Social Sciences --- Archeology --- Philistines - History --- Philistines - Migrations --- Philistines - Antiquities --- Social archaeology - Aegean Sea Region --- Land settlement - Middle East - History - To 1500 --- Aegean Sea Region - Emigration and immigration - History --- Middle East - Emigration and immigration - History --- Aegean Sea Region - Antiquities --- Middle East - Antiquities