Around 1450 BCE, a catastrophic series of destructions befell towns and villages all across the island of Crete. Bronze Age Cretan or ‘Minoan’ society would never be the same again, most of its palaces in ruins. And yet, there are new beginnings. Some sites see fresh building programs, others rebuild substantially though using prior structures, while others largely reuse what remained. These varied patterns of construction, reuse, rebuilding, recycling, and modification are complex and have thus resisted concerted analysis. In this talk I will show how through spatial analysis and digital methodologies, such as 3D scanning and 3D modelling, it becomes possible to shine new light on this complexity and interpret architectural change and the life history of buildings during periods of instability and transformation.