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This lecture will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. The period between c.1450 and 550 BCE on Crete was one of major social, political, and economic change, including the final phase – and ultimate collapse – of the Bronze Age palatial tradition, and the gradual emergence of the island’s earliest poleis or city-states. This lecture offers a novel perspective on these historical processes by foregrounding the fundamental pressures and opportunities of the Cretan landscape, and the agricultural foundations on which the societies of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age were built.