I have encountered nothing since 1979 to shake my belief in the concept of a late Second Millennium catastrophe. At the opening of the conventional Late Bronze Age in Britain, in the 10th century BC, signs of this shrunken scale of activity and settlement are still everywhere. Most sites were abandoned, and if reoccupation came at all it was only after an interval of unknown duration, and is then “Late Bronze Age”. This becomes ever clearer as more and more C14 dates for the Iberian Bronze Age come to hand. Clearly dislocation, hiatus, rupture, cesure – all these terms have been used – occurred in many parts of the Old World in the late Second Millennium BC.