The transformations entangled in becoming an urban society are increasingly attracting attention in archaeology, including in the Mediterranean. The place-making entailed in the development of urban settlement represents a fundamental change for a society; it creates over time a new urban mentalité and habitus, such that the urban fabric and place become an active part of social life, and its reproduction. While urbanism does not require the 'state', urban settlements form key venues for social, economic and political change leading to the potential development of sedentary early complex polities. For several areas of the world and in multiple periods, there are increasingly sophisticated studies of urbanisation. To date, Cyprus has received relatively little attention-but, as increasingly recognised, urbanisation was central to the island's rapid change into, and emergence as, a substantial element of the Late Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean world. We consider and critique the case of urbanisation on Late Bronze Age Cyprus and highlight its importance to Cypriot

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Previous research on the environment of island and coastal areas has demonstrated 13 that erosion substantially affects coastal archaeological site preservation and can lead to the 14 loss of important information regardingpast trade and maritime activities. These same at risk 15 coastal archaeological loci are central to much current archaeological focus on networks and 16 connectivity. In practical and theoretical terms, this places significant stresses on local 17 governments and archaeologists, who are trying to monitor rapidly deteriorating cultural 18 heritage and rescue information vital to future research. Beyond ad hoc observations, 19rigorous methods to quantifysuch issues have rarely been developed in the archaeology of the 20 Eastern Mediterranean, including the island of Cyprus. In this paper we demonstrate an 21 integrativemethod, which employs historic aerial photographsand laserscanning to 22 illustrate,quantify and monitor coastline change and its impact on cultural heritage since the 23 industrialisation of the south-central coast of the island in the mid-20 th century CE. 24