Collapse of society ?

[Dan D'Silva]

I did use the word in blurry context. I was referring to iron as the LBA's downfall. A new group entered the Frog Pond using lighter, quicker, sharper, weapons. The singular female deity was replaced by a male-oriented pantheon, not actually "better" but we still live with it. The newcomers wound up being proto-Greeks and Philistines, and the Frog Pond changed forever.

Eh? I may be misreading you, but are you equating the Iron Age with the arrival of Greeks in Greece and the beginning of the Olympic pantheon? Those events predate the Iron Age by... well I'm not sure what the dates are now, but it's some centuries.