ON THE PROBLEM OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE SEA PEOPLES IN EARLY 12 BC
Abstract
Based on Ugaritic and Egyptian written sources and archaeological data from Palestine and Cyprus, the author examines the social and political system of the Sea Peoples. He shows that most of the migrants were the people of developed urban culture at the time of their arrival in Palestine and to Cyprus. On the other hand, some of them did not have any social and political structures as it is mentioned in written sources. In author’s opinion, the Sea Peoples never were a single unit in social sense, but an amalgam of tribes with different level of development of social and political institutions.
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