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The study of a faunal assemblage from the site of S’Urachi (West Central Sardinia), coming from d... more The study of a faunal assemblage from the site of S’Urachi (West Central Sardinia), coming from different contexts dated approximatlety to the 7th century BC, have enable us to analyse the management strategies of animals resources. Of particular interest is the strong continuity that we have found alongside substantial evidence of changes related to Phoenicians contacts. The basic strategiy of animal exploitation is that of herding livestock. Sheep are the most abundant species based on the number of identified specimens, followed by only a slightly presence of cattle. Wild resources are primarily represented by deer. Together, the results show a high degree of continuity of traditions rooted in the Nuragic period. Key new elements include the introduction of larger bovines and the sporadic presence of wild species such as hare and terrestrial turtle. Overall, while there is notable, if not strong. Phoenician influence at S’Urachi on aspects such as ceramics and architecture, the comunity’s use of faunal resources remained largely unchanged throughout tehe 7th century BC.
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Nell’ambito di queste indagini la Sardegna riveste un ruolo fondamentale, motivato non solo dalla sua posizione centrale nel Mediterraneo occidentale, strategica per la politica espansionistica di Cartagine, ma anche da una pluralità di studi di carattere storico-archeologico in grado di modificare in modo significativo il quadro di conoscenze sin qui acquisito sull’impatto cartaginese in ampi settori dell’isola. Fra questi settori figura sicuramente il Sulcis, dove le indagini condotte a Sulky, Monte Sirai, Nuraghe Sirai e Pani Loriga hanno radicalmente modificato le conoscenze sul V secolo in Sardegna – e non solo – come dimostrano i contributi incentrati su questo areale.
BC. The available archaeological evidence for the late Archaic period until the first two decades of the 5th century consists
of only a handful of items, which suggests that contacts with Etruria were limited. These few imports cannot be interpreted
as evidence of regular trade, but amphorae provide more abundant data for the 5th to 4th century BC. Increasing amounts
of Etruscan transport containers have been found in recent years, which point to the existence of well-established patterns of
trade in that period and that suggest that the perception of weak contacts across the Tyrrhenian Sea may be due to a lack of
systematic research.
so, I investigate one of the key themes of the volume and focus on the role of the past in reshaping one community’s collective identity, as well as in structuring practices of communitarian belonging, as documented by material culture throughout the Punic period. I conclude that the explicit interaction with Sardinia’s unique monuments which were at the time part and parcel of the island’s cultural and physical landscape inevitably resulted in the production of new cultural forms which constituted part and parcel of the island’s peculiar identity in the Punic world of the western Mediterranean.
Excavations carried out around the multi-towered settlement of nuraghe S’Urachi in west central Sardinia have brought to light strong archaeological evidence of continuity throughout the whole first millennium BC. In this paper, we focus on an important phase of building activity which took place in the Late Punic/Roman Republican period (2nd to 1st century BC), when the island had already been annexed to Rome, yet still retained strong Punic cultural features. This phase substantially transformed the appearance of the nuraghe.
La prima relazione preliminare sul Progetto S’Urachi (San Vero Milis, OR) presenta gli obiettivi del progetto per lo studio dell’età del Ferro e delle successive fasi di età storica del primo millennio a.C., e delinea le varie attività di ricerca realizzate durante le prime campagne di lavoro (2013-15). Si tratta in primo luogo di scavi stratigrafici in due aree all'esterno dell’antemurale del complesso nuragico e di un minuzioso rilevamento e analisi architettonica dell’antemurale. La zona intorno al nuraghe è stata indagata con una prospezione magnetometrica e una raccolta sistematica di reperti presenti in superficie, mentre il territorio circostante è stato documentato con ricognizioni pedologiche e geomorfologiche per valutare il potenziale agronomico del territorio.
a signifiant assemblage of typologically Phoenician pottery, dating between the 8th and 6th c. BC. By focusing on chronological and functional features of Phoenician pottery, namely amphorae, cooking and table ware, my aim in this paper is to show that the distribution of Phoenician ceramics at S’Urachi and Su Padrigheddu dramatically
increased from the mid-7th century BC. While a substantial percentage of the assemblage is made up of amphora sherds, which were imported from the nearby Phoenician colonial settlements located on the shores of the Gulf of Oristano, a significant amount of typologically Phoenician pottery is composed of locally made cooking ware. It is
suggested that this functional category of pottery is related to the culinary, traditional practices of a group of individuals of Phoenician background, who moved from the nearby colonial settlements of Tharros and/or Othoca and settled at S’Urachi and Su Padrigheddu.
Nell’ambito di queste indagini la Sardegna riveste un ruolo fondamentale, motivato non solo dalla sua posizione centrale nel Mediterraneo occidentale, strategica per la politica espansionistica di Cartagine, ma anche da una pluralità di studi di carattere storico-archeologico in grado di modificare in modo significativo il quadro di conoscenze sin qui acquisito sull’impatto cartaginese in ampi settori dell’isola. Fra questi settori figura sicuramente il Sulcis, dove le indagini condotte a Sulky, Monte Sirai, Nuraghe Sirai e Pani Loriga hanno radicalmente modificato le conoscenze sul V secolo in Sardegna – e non solo – come dimostrano i contributi incentrati su questo areale.
BC. The available archaeological evidence for the late Archaic period until the first two decades of the 5th century consists
of only a handful of items, which suggests that contacts with Etruria were limited. These few imports cannot be interpreted
as evidence of regular trade, but amphorae provide more abundant data for the 5th to 4th century BC. Increasing amounts
of Etruscan transport containers have been found in recent years, which point to the existence of well-established patterns of
trade in that period and that suggest that the perception of weak contacts across the Tyrrhenian Sea may be due to a lack of
systematic research.
so, I investigate one of the key themes of the volume and focus on the role of the past in reshaping one community’s collective identity, as well as in structuring practices of communitarian belonging, as documented by material culture throughout the Punic period. I conclude that the explicit interaction with Sardinia’s unique monuments which were at the time part and parcel of the island’s cultural and physical landscape inevitably resulted in the production of new cultural forms which constituted part and parcel of the island’s peculiar identity in the Punic world of the western Mediterranean.
Excavations carried out around the multi-towered settlement of nuraghe S’Urachi in west central Sardinia have brought to light strong archaeological evidence of continuity throughout the whole first millennium BC. In this paper, we focus on an important phase of building activity which took place in the Late Punic/Roman Republican period (2nd to 1st century BC), when the island had already been annexed to Rome, yet still retained strong Punic cultural features. This phase substantially transformed the appearance of the nuraghe.
La prima relazione preliminare sul Progetto S’Urachi (San Vero Milis, OR) presenta gli obiettivi del progetto per lo studio dell’età del Ferro e delle successive fasi di età storica del primo millennio a.C., e delinea le varie attività di ricerca realizzate durante le prime campagne di lavoro (2013-15). Si tratta in primo luogo di scavi stratigrafici in due aree all'esterno dell’antemurale del complesso nuragico e di un minuzioso rilevamento e analisi architettonica dell’antemurale. La zona intorno al nuraghe è stata indagata con una prospezione magnetometrica e una raccolta sistematica di reperti presenti in superficie, mentre il territorio circostante è stato documentato con ricognizioni pedologiche e geomorfologiche per valutare il potenziale agronomico del territorio.
a signifiant assemblage of typologically Phoenician pottery, dating between the 8th and 6th c. BC. By focusing on chronological and functional features of Phoenician pottery, namely amphorae, cooking and table ware, my aim in this paper is to show that the distribution of Phoenician ceramics at S’Urachi and Su Padrigheddu dramatically
increased from the mid-7th century BC. While a substantial percentage of the assemblage is made up of amphora sherds, which were imported from the nearby Phoenician colonial settlements located on the shores of the Gulf of Oristano, a significant amount of typologically Phoenician pottery is composed of locally made cooking ware. It is
suggested that this functional category of pottery is related to the culinary, traditional practices of a group of individuals of Phoenician background, who moved from the nearby colonial settlements of Tharros and/or Othoca and settled at S’Urachi and Su Padrigheddu.
perspective on the Sardinian Iron Age. Leaving to one side older debates about the first adoption of iron-working, we argue for a definition of the Iron Age that is thematic and based on the intensification of cultural interaction rather than the development of social inequality.