number of possible causes that may have led, or contributed, to the Collapse at the end of the Late Bronze Age, but none seems capable of having caused the calamity on its own. There is archaeological evidence for invaders, or at least newcomers probably from the Aegean region, western Anatolia, Cyprus, or all of the above, found in the Levant from Ugarit in the north to Lachish in the south. Some of the cities were destroyed and then abandoned; others were reoccupied; and still others were unaffected. There were earthquakes during this period, but usually societies can recover from these.
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