what century was the bronze age
Bronze Age Collapse: Pollen Study Highlights Late Bronze Age Drought In the Archaeology Odyssey article âWhen Civilization Collapsed: Death of the Bronze Age,â William H. Stiebing describes the Late Bronze Age collapse: It was a cataclysm of immense proportions: Near the end of the 13th century B.C.E., the great Bronze Age civilizations of the Aegean and Near East suddenly collapsed. In the latter part of the Late Bronze Age (c. 1400â1200 B.C.E.), Mycenaean civilization flourished in Greece and Crete.