Archaeological sites: Late Bronze Age Export Graphic Some important Late Bronze Age excavated sites (c. 1550-1200 BC). The transition from the Middle to Late Bronze Age in Palestine was marked by the destruction of many important cities and the subsequent abandonment of some sites for most of LBI.LBII (c. 1400-1200 BC) saw the final flourish of Canaanite culture before it was in turn destroyed and replaced by that of Iron Age I. Among the LB towns destroyed at the end of the period are some