The collapse of states c.1200 BC in the east Mediterranean is one of the best-known socioeconomic crises of the ancient world. The period also witnessed notable innovation in a range of cultural spheres. The more general historical relationship between crisis and innovation can be productively explored using the increasingly detailed data available on this period and region, including case studies like the present one. This focuses on the north Lasithi area of east Crete in connection to recent archaeological work there, particularly at the site of Karphi and on its finds. It is contextualized in terms of the wider Mediterranean crisis context and the particular cultural responses seen in the Aegean. The paper explores the cultural contexts and outcomes of state collapse in ways which can help to interrogate received general models of historical innovation drivers. Does crisis in fact tend to produce technological regression and simplification, as elites disappear and complex sociopolitical systems break down? Do crisis-spurred population movements have a direct role in transforming technology? Alternatively (or at the same time) does crisis provide a freed-up social and economic space in which latent local innovation can emerge? In the multi-context approach to interpreting cultural change adopted here, spheres of technological innovation which have already been intensively studied for the relevant period (e.g. iron introduction) are assessed from new angles, and less-discussed/-researched innovations (e.g. in textile making) are explored at a detailed scale through the case study, allowing evaluation of potential cross-stimulus between different innovation spheres in the context of crisis.

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社会经济危机与文化创新：LBA-EIA 东地中海，以克里特岛 LASITHI 为例

国家的崩溃C.公元前 1200 年的东地中海是古代世界最著名的社会经济危机之一。这一时期还见证了一系列文化领域的显着创新。可以使用关于这一时期和地区的越来越详细的数据，包括像现在这样的案例研究，来有效地探索危机与创新之间更普遍的历史关系。这集中在克里特岛东部的北 Lasithi 地区与最近的考古工作有关，特别是在 Karphi 遗址及其发现。它根据更广泛的地中海危机背景和在爱琴海看到的特定文化反应进行了背景化。该论文探讨了国家崩溃的文化背景和结果，以有助于询问已收到的历史创新驱动因素的一般模型。随着精英的消失和复杂的社会政治体系的崩溃，危机实际上是否倾向于产生技术倒退和简化？危机引发的人口流动对技术变革有直接作用吗？或者（或同时）危机是否为潜在的地方创新提供了一个释放的社会和经济空间？在此处采用的多语境解释文化变革的方法中，从新的角度评估了相关时期已经深入研究的技术创新领域（例如铁引入），以及较少讨论/研究的创新（例如纺织通过案例研究以详细的规模进行探索，从而评估危机背景下不同创新领域之间的潜在交叉刺激.