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Punctuated Insularity: The Archaeology of 4th and 3rd Millennium Sardinia

Punctuated Insularity: The Archaeology of 4th and 3rd Millennium Sardinia

Webster, Gary
Webster, Maud

Paperback

Series: BAR International, Book 2871

ArchaeologyAncient Rome

ISBN10: 1407316192
ISBN13: 9781407316192
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports
Published: Oct 31 2017
Pages: 174
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.47 Width: 8.27 Depth: 11.69
Language: English

Sardinia preserves an exceptional record of its Final Neolithic and Copper Age cultures, with a diverse crafts repertory, henges and dolmens, statue-menhirs, chamber tombs - and the only known ziggurat in Europe. The present study provides a synthesis in English for a scholarly readership interested in Mediterranean adaptations during this earliest period of metallurgy. As elsewhere, the infusion of metallurgy had profound implications, as island cultures underwent a series of transformations tied directly or indirectly to it. Spanning two millennia, these changes are studied in terms of material cultures known as Ozieri, Sub-Ozieri, Filigosa-Abealzu, Monte Claro and Bell Beaker. A more overarching finding from this review is the periodic engagement between these cultures and geographically distant ones. Such punctuations of the insular condition had long-lasting effects on local expression, and some thoughts on how this might contribute to understandings of concepts like identity formation are presented by way of a conclusion.

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