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Nuraghi with a view: Understanding visualscapes in Nuragic Marmilla (South-Central Sardinia, Italy)

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2017
Sardinia’s nuraghi represent the most characteristic building of the island since at least the Middle Bronze Age 2 (ca. 1600-1500), and have been subject to a number of excavations and landscape studies. However, their functional and symbolic role still appears to be poorly defined.
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Carving out communities: funerary architecture as expressions of identity in Pre-Nuragic Sardinia

Pre-Nuragic Sardinia (Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic, c. 4400-2300 BC) was a period of changing social and cultural practices, where both insular developments and external influences contributed to distinctive traditions across the island. This is epitomised by the domus de janas: rock-cut tombs that were, uniquely for this period in the Mediterranean,
Lilley, Kirsty M.
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Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy analysis of the limestone Nuragic statues from Mont'e Prama site (Sardinia, Italy) [PDF]

Spectrochimica Acta, Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy, 2018
n this study, we report the results of a micro-destructive analysis of stone materials used for the realization of the Mont'e Prama statues, important limestone sculptures dated to the Early Iron Age (Late Nuragic period: 9th–8th cent.
S Columbu, S Carboni, Stefano Pagnotta   +2 more
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Speleothems uncover Late Holocene environmental changes across the Nuragic period in Sardinia (Italy): A possible human influence on land use during bronze to post-Iron Age cultural shifts [PDF]

Quaternary Science Reviews
During the Bronze and Iron Age, Sardinia was home of one of the most technologically advanced Mediterranean societies (the Nuragic culture). Given its key geographical location, the island was also the fulcrum of deep cultural exchanges.
Andrea Columbu, Eleonora Regattieri, Federico Lugli   +2 more
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Chemical Composition and Lead Isotopy of Copper and Bronze from Nuragic Sardinia

European Journal of Archaeology, 2001
We present data on the chemical and lead isotope composition of copper and bronze objects from Nuragic Sardinia. The sample suite comprises, inter alia, objects from the hoard finds at Arzachena (21 objects), Bonnanaro (10), Ittireddu (34), and Pattada (20), all in northern Sardinia.
Begemann, F., Schmitt-Strecker, S., Pernicka, E., LoSchiavo, F.   +3 more
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Fossils in Archaeological Sites: A Mesozoic Mollusk in the Nuragic Sanctuary of Sa Sedda ’e Sos Carros (Sardinia, Italy)

Geoheritage
The finding of animal and plant fossils in archaeological contexts raises the question of their importance in prehistoric times. Fossils have often been interpreted as supernatural objects and could have given rise legends and myths.
Marco Zedda, Daniel Zoboli
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The Archaeology of Nuragic Sardinia

2016
The Archaeology of Nuragic Sardinia is a comprehensive synthesis of evidence bearing on current understandings of Sardinian prehistory from the 23rd through the 8th centuries BC. It is a study of the material traces left by those insular societies known famously for their unique megalithic ‘Giants’ tombs and intricate water-temples, as well as for the ...
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Social Organization in Nuragic Sardinia: Cultural Progress Without ‘Elites’?

Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2014
After the collapse of most early states in the East around 1200 BC, parts of the western Mediterranean experienced technological progress and demographic rise, apparently without adapting forms of hierarchic political organization. A very good example is Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age nuragic Sardinia, which had been connected to eastern trade ...
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Larva of Halesus nurag Malicky 1974 (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae) and diagnostic key for the limnephilid larvae of Sardinia

Zootaxa, 2018
This paper gives a description of the hitherto unknown larva of Halesus nurag Malicky 1974 (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae). Information on the morphology of the larva is given, and the most important diagnostic features are figured. In the context of the European Halesus species, the larva of H. nurag is morphologically close to H. appenninus Moretti &
Waringer, Johann, Malicky, Hans
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On the dolmens of pre-nuragic Sardinia

, 1998
MORAVETTI, Alberto
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