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- Abstract:
- My doctoral dissertation is entitled “Post-Abandonment Visitation to LM IIIC “Refuge” Settlements on the Island of Crete: Intergenerational Transmission of Social Identity through Memory Practice and its Effects on Long Term Social Change.” Its purpose is to apply Social Trauma Theory, a theoretical framework originating in the field of sociology, to archaeological evidence for post-abandonment visitation to both LM IIIC upland settlements and Bronze Age monumental sites on the island of Crete in the centuries following the Bronze Age collapse of c. 1250 BCE. The goal of this research is to more fully elucidate the role that embodied ritual practices taking place at abandoned sites of memory play in the formation and reification of adapted social identities emerging in the wake of extreme social transformation. To do this, the project investigates the periodic abandonment and renewal of post-collapse ritual practices at abandoned sites against the background of two further periods of cultural change that are materially evident in the archaeological record on the island of Crete—the Subminoan to the Protogeometric period and the Late Geometric to the Early Archaic period. This investigation shows that these sites of memory and the embodied ritual practices associated with them became a vital resource in the reification of post-collapse social identities during times of social threat, and that, through intergenerational transmission, they contributed in profound ways to long-term sociopolitical development on the island.
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- Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brown University, 2025
Citation
Bell, Sarah Malik,
"Post-Abandonment Visitation on the Island of Crete During the Early Iron Age: Intergenerational Transmission of Social Identity through Memory Practice and its Effects on Long-Term Social Change"
(2025).
Graduate Research Theses and Dissertations.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:ydaq6s6s/
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