eprintid: 10152577 rev_number: 22 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/15/25/77 datestamp: 2022-09-30 12:10:48 lastmod: 2023-08-01 06:10:38 status_changed: 2022-09-30 12:10:48 type: thesis metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Pollard, Dominic title: Between the Mountains and the Sea: Landscapes of Settlement, Subsistence and Funerary Practice in Later Bronze Age and Iron Age Crete ispublished: unpub divisions: C03 divisions: F31 divisions: B03 divisions: UCL note: Copyright © The Author 2022. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. abstract: This thesis presents a study of Late Bronze Age (LBA) and Early Iron Age (EIA) Crete – from the Late Minoan II to early Archaic periods – and specifically the settlement systems, agricultural regimes, and mortuary practices which characterised the transition from the palace-centred, ‘Minoan’ society, through a period of political and economic fragmentation, to the emergence of the small, numerous city-states of the Greek era. Research on these periods has traditionally been divided amongst quite distinct scholarly traditions. This thesis seeks to transcend these disciplinary boundaries by focussing on types of evidence well represented across the entire timeframe, and by employing methods so far underutilised in their study. Firstly, with a database of known habitation sites, along with digitised intensive surveys of several subregions, this thesis presents an analysis of the environmental correlates and spatial relationships of human settlement, and the networks of visibility, movement and interaction which, it is suggested, underpinned the long-term evolution of Crete’s LBA and EIA communities. Secondly, drawing on these same datasets, and ethno- and bio-archaeological studies of ancient agriculture, developments in the demography and subsistence practices of LBA and EIA Crete are examined. Thirdly, with a database of published and reported tombs from the periods under investigation, this thesis undertakes a spatial and quantitative analysis of mortuary practices and assemblages across the island. Finally, these analyses are integrated into an historical synthesis, based on diverse strands of evidence, including law codes, historical sources, and settlement and cult assemblages. This thesis argues that a focus on changes in the networks of movement and interaction which developed at multiple scales interconnecting communities of the LBA and EIA – at all times rooted in the affordances of the Cretan landscape – offers a fruitful, dynamic means of bridging the traditionally perceived disjuncture between the final palaces and the later city-states. date: 2022-07-28 date_type: published oa_status: green full_text_type: other thesis_class: doctoral_embargoed thesis_award: Ph.D language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1966752 lyricists_name: Pollard, Dominic lyricists_id: DPOLL56 actors_name: Pollard, Dominic actors_id: DPOLL56 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public pagerange: 1-300 pages: 300 institution: UCL (University College London) department: Institute of Archaeology thesis_type: Doctoral citation: Pollard, Dominic; (2022) Between the Mountains and the Sea: Landscapes of Settlement, Subsistence and Funerary Practice in Later Bronze Age and Iron Age Crete. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10152577/3/Dominic%20Pollard%20Thesis%20-%20Text.pdf document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10152577/9/Dominic%20Pollard%20Thesis%20-%20Appendices.pdf document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10152577/25/Dominic%20Pollard%20Thesis%20-%20Figures%20and%20Bibliography.%20Edited%20Version.pdf