Late Bronze Age in Canaan was a period of strong political and economic dominance of Egypt. Long term economic exploitation of the land of Canaan and Egyptian policy effected in appearance and maintenance of pathological socio-economic and demographic phenomena. With the end of Egyptian rule in Canaan the system which functioned mainly thanks to its inference collapsed. The huge part of Canaan’s population which hitherto lived on a fringe of civilization as refugees and outlaws faced a new reality and new possibilities. They were the foundation of a new demographic movement which gave birth to the new ethnic identities of the Iron Age.
