This book focuses in the main on the question of the ethnicity of the Sea Peoples of the central and eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age. It is divided into four parts. The first and third are by Wim Binsbergen, setting out his theoretical approach and offering a detailed appraisal of the Homeric catalogue of ships and the Biblical table of nations, whilst in the matter of the Sea Peoples, focusing on long term processes and cultural features. Part 2 is by Fred Woudhuizen, and takes a more historically focused approach, offering an in depth review of the available written material and linguistic data. In the concluding section they provide a synthesis of their differing but mutually complementary views.