in the Late Bronze Age collapse of the late 1200s and early 1100s B.C. The Egyptian empire went into terminal decline. The Hittite empire fell, and the Assyrian and Babylonian empires faltered.

Axes made from polished flint and stone were important throughout the Neolithic (Late Stone Age) and Early Bronze Age. Fine-grained stone was quarried from hillsides in Cumbria, Wales, Cornwall ...

Cline argues that several modern factors are pushing us closer to a collapse of civilization similar ... maturity, old age, and death. However, he emphasizes that this cycle does not necessarily ...

The large burial sites of the early Bronze Age were a thing of the past, as the land was now needed for agriculture. The late Bronze Age was also signatured by advanced pottery-making techniques ...