given the additional data that have appeared in the years since 2014, while I would still posit multifactor causation, I am inclined to think that this megadrought is likely to have been the principal driving force behind many of the problems that Late Bronze Age societies faced. For example, the texts from sites like Ugarit in Syria confirm that with the drought came famine, with people starving. And with famine came upheaval, including armed attacks and internal rebellions,
