Jon K Wrote:
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> [...] I havent seen the data on this so
> far. does anyone have any books or links to
> suggest for research.
If you're interested in the Sea Peoples more generally, some of the following academic books and articles might be of interest (this isn't a complete list by any means, but I've asterixed the ones I think might be particularly useful):
*Barako, Tristan. 2003. "How Did the Philistines Get to Canaan? One: By Sea ..."
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April, 29(2): 26-33, 64, 66 (see also Yasur-Landau 2003 and Wachsmann 2003).
*Betancourt, Philip P. 2000. "The Aegean and the Origin of the Sea Peoples". In
The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, edited by Eliezer D. Oren. Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania (pp. 297-303).
Bietak, Manfred. 1990. "The Sea Peoples and the End of the Egyptian Administration in Canaan". In
Biblical Archaeology Today, edited by Avraham Biran and Joseph Aviram. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.
*Cline, Eric H. and David O'Connor. 2003. "The Mystery of the 'Sea Peoples'". In
Mysterious Lands (Encounters with Ancient Egypt), edited by David O'Connor and Stephen Quirke. London: UCL Press.
Dothan, Trude. 2000. "Reflections on the Initial Phase of Philistine Settlement". In
The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, edited by Eliezer D. Oren. Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania (pp. 145-158).
*Drews, Robert. 1988.
The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-European Conquests in the Aegean and the Near East. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
*Drews, Robert. 1993.
The End of the Bronze Age: Changes in Warfare and the Catastrophe ca. 1200 BC. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
*Drews, Robert. 2000. "Medinet Habu: Oxcarts, Ships, and Migration Theories".
Journal of near Eastern Studies, 59(3): 161-190.
Finkelstein, Israel. 1995. "The Date of the Settlement of the Philistines in Canaan".
Tel Aviv, 22(2): 213-239.
Finkelstein, Israel. 2000. "The Philistine Settlements: When, Where and How Many?" In
The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, edited by Eliezer D. Oren. Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania (pp. 159-180).
Finkelstein, Israel. 2002. "El-Ahwat: A Fortified Sea People City?"
Israel Exploration Journal, 52(2): 187-1999.
Machinist, Peter. 2000. "Biblical Traditions: The Philistines and Israelite History". In
The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, edited by Eliezer D. Oren. Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania (pp. 53-83).
Mazar, Amihai. 2000. "The Temples and Cult of the Philistines". In
The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, edited by Eliezer D. Oren. Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania (pp. 213-232).
*O'Connor, David. 2000. "The Sea Peoples and the Egyptian Sources". In
The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, edited by Eliezer D. Oren. Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania (pp. 85-102).
*Redford, Donald B. 2000. "Egypt and Western Asia in the Late New Kingdom: An Overview". In
The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, edited by Eliezer D. Oren. Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania (pp. 1-20).
*Sandars, N.K. 1978.
The Sea Peoples: Warriors of the Ancient Mediterrenean 1250-1150 BC. London: Thames and Hudson.
Schafer-Lichtenberger, Christa. 2000. "The Goddess of Ekron and the Religious-Cultural Background of the Philistines".
Israel Exploration Journal, 50(1-2): 82-91.
Silberman, Neil Asher. 1998. "The Sea Peoples, the Victorians, and Us: Modern Social Ideology and Changing Archaeological Interpretations of the Late Bronze Age Collapse". In
Mediterranean Peoples in Transition: Thirteenth to Early Tenth Centuries BCE, edited by Seymour Gitin, Amihai Mazar, and Ephraim Stern. Jerusalem: Israel Exploration Society.
Singer, I. 1988. "The Origin of the Sea Peoples and Their Settlement on the Coast of Canaan". In
Society and Economy in the Eastern Mediterranean c. 1500-1000 BC, edited by M. Heltzer and E. Lipinski. Leuven.
Stern, Ephraim. 2000. "The Settlement of Sea Peoples in Northern Israel". In
The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, edited by Eliezer D. Oren. Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania (pp. 197-212).
*Sweeney, Deborah and Asaf Yasur-Landau. 1999. "Following the Path of the Sea Persons: The Women in the Medinet Habu Reliefs".
Tel Aviv, 26(1): 116-145.
Tubb, Jonathan N. 1998.
The Canaanites (Peoples of the Past). London: The British Museum Press (see especially Chapter 7: "Sea Peoples and Egypto-Canaan").
Tubb, Jonathan N. 2000. "Sea Peoples in the Jordan Valley". In
The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, edited by Eliezer D. Oren. Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania (pp. 181-196).
Tykot, Robert H. 2003. "Villages of Stone: Sardinia's Bronze Age
nuraghi".
Archaeology Odyssey, March/April 2003.
Vagnetti, Lucia. 2000. "Western Mediterranean Overview: Peninsular Italy, Sicily and Sardinia at the Time of the Sea Peoples". In
The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, edited by Eliezer D. Oren. Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania (pp. 305-326).
*Wachsmann, Shelley. 2000. "To the Sea of the Philistines". In
The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment, edited by Eliezer D. Oren. Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania (pp. 103-143).
*Wachsmann, Shelley. 2003. "A Complex Migration: Did the Philistines Get to Canaan by Land or by Sea? The Debate Continues".
Biblical Archaeology Review, November/December, 29(6): 22, 64.
*Yasur-Landau, Assaf. 2003. "How Did the Philistines Get to Canaan? Two: By Land ..."
Biblical Archaeology Review, March/April, 29(2): 34-39, 66-67 (see also Barako 2003 and Wachsmann 2003).
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For an interesting and, in my opinion, well-researched book by an independent researcher you might be interested to track down the following:
Robbins, Manuel. 2001.
Collapse of the Bronze Age: The Story of Greece, Troy, Israel, Egypt, and the Peoples of the Sea. Authors Choice Press (an imprint of iUniverse, Inc).
