Contextualizing Crisis? Some Thoughts on the End of the Bronze Age in the Euphrates Region

The article aims to provide specific examples of the visibility and materialization of the concept of crisis in the archaeological records. The case of the supposed crisis that affected the site of Arslantepe at the end of the 13th century BC is analyzed and evaluated using a concrete set of archaeological evidence. The results are also contextualized into the wider events that distressed the Euphrates region and the whole eastern Mediterranean world during these troubled years