RENLORC will study emerging social complexity in Central Greece during the Middle Bronze Age (MBA) and the early Late Bronze Age (LBA) (ca. 2100–1600 BCE) using a multi-scale interdisciplinary analytical examination of pottery production, consumption, and distribution. Pottery in this period was used by all levels of society for a variety of activities including in charged social arenas like feasting, hospitality, and funerary practices. It was produced in different types by multiple communities using varied techniques and choices impacted by changing social, cultural, economic, and technological factors. It is also the main tool to reconstruct networks of exchange due to the wide distribution and conspicuous consumption of distinctive products. Pottery thus represents the principal element of material culture that was manipulated and the most likely medium through which social change might be expressed. Both production traditions and consumption habits are deeply connected to the communication of knowledge and the expression of identity and status. A combination of ceramic thin section petrography, Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis, direct digital radiography, and Scanning Electron Microscopy will identify different potting communities of production practice (defined by consistently shared attributes) operating within Central Greece through an investigation of fabric composition and provenance, pigment recipes, forming techniques, and firing techniques. The diachronic and spatial distribution of products from these communities will be identified, as will the distribution of imports from outside of the region, resulting in an understanding of shifting networks of interaction operating at various scales. Ultimately, any changes to pottery production, consumption, and distribution will indicate changes to the regional economy, the centralization of power, and to conceptions of identity as these products are consumed by any emerging elite.