6/19/2023 0 Comments Eric h cline 1177![]() A large-scale, overland migration from these latter regions, although possible, would have been extremely difficult because of the geographic barriers present along this route. A cursory glance at a map quickly reveals that travel from most proposed Philistine homelands (i.e., mainland Greece, the Aegean Islands, Crete, Cyprus) to southern coastal Canaan require travel by sea however, travel from two others (i.e., coastal Asia Minor, Cilicia) do not. Precisely how the Philistines transported themselves and their material culture from their original to their adoptive homeland, however, has never been adequately explained. Moreover, it is widely acknowledged that the origin of this material culture is to be found in the Aegean/Mycenaean world, which, by the end of the thirteenth century, encompassed much of the eastern Mediterranean region. The intrusive nature of the Philistine material culture, which suddenly appears in southern coastal Canaan in the first half of the twelfth century BCE, has never been in doubt. ![]()
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