This paper examines the transformative power of communal ritual during periods of social change. Specifically, it explores the creation of a modified ceremonial landscape in north-east Cyprus at the transition from the Middle to Late Bronze Age. With reference to landscape theory and anthropological approaches to ritual performance, it interrogates how this created landscape was incorporated within ceremonial practice, how it was experienced and how it was used to mediate relations within and between settlements of the region during a period of social upheaval. The transitional Middle–Late Bronze Age on Cyprus (henceforth Middle and Late Cypriot periods, MC–LC,