Questions regarding Bronze age Collapse

Wait, James Mellaart, this:

https://www.livescience.com/61989-famed-archaeologist-created-fakes.html

James Mellaart? I always suspected the Beyköy inscription was bogus, simply because it was honestly too good to be true - it takes a obscure area in western Anatolia and inflates it to world-shaking proportions in one inscription, that conveniently uses both a previously known king (Kupanta-Kurunti) and describes him wiping out not just the Hittite empire, but also the notoriously tough Kaska, and Kizzuwatna. Its everything a hittologist could possibly want in a document short of a direct tie-in to the Trojan war.

To be fair, its not like anyone really could prove that this inscription was false, since James Mellaart was, to his credit, very well read in that field. Hell the guy fooled the actual community of luwian archeologists, so us yokels were easy game:

https://luwianstudies.org/james-mellaart-forged-documents-throughout-life/

In my personal yokel opinion, if you want to lay blame at the foot of any one ethnic group in the LBA, you should consider the Greeks. Traders, pirates, and outright conquerors and colonizers of both Cyprus and Anatolia. There's similarities between Hellenic equipment and so-called 'sea peoples' equipment, and even ship types share resemblance. Certainly other groups were involved, and these great palatial states were not static entities just sitting around waiting to be destroyed, but I think that it was events in mainland Greece that caused much of these processes to at-least accelerate.

Andrea Salimbeti maintains a quality website on the subject, if anyone wants to look: http://www.salimbeti.com/micenei/sea.htm

Now, he is definitely a bit 'out there' on some of his reconstructions, but I see now reason to doubt his text. It helps he cites himself, which is a sad rarity among historical websites.
 
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