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Punctuated Insularity: The Archaeology of 4th and 3rd Millennium Sardinia
Gary Webster and Maud Webster 2017 © BAR Publishing
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. This book is a companion volume to The Sardinian Neolithic: An Archaeology of the 6th and 5th Millennia BCE by Gary Webster (2019).
- Series
- BAR pre-2020
- BAR International Series pre-2020
- ISBN(s)
- 9781407345031 (ebook)
- 9781407316192 (paperback)
- BAR Number
- S2871
- Subject
- Neolithic / Chalcolithic
- Mesopotamia
- Trade / Exchange / Travel / Economy
- Levant / Near East
- Craft working (general titles, bone, glass, textiles, etc.)
- Archaeometry / Scientific Dating
- Art / Sculpture / Gems / Seals
- Rock-Art / Semiotics
- Ceramics and Pottery Studies
- Mediterranean
- Metal Objects
- Excavation / Fieldwork / Survey
- Food and Drink / Diet
- Prehistory (general titles only)
- Agriculture / Farming / Husbandry / Land-use / Irrigation
- Ritual / Religion / Temples
- Lithics / Stone Tools
- Death / Burial / Cemeteries / Tombs
- Archaeobotany / Environment and Climate
- Architecture / Domestic and Urban Buildings and Space / Urbanism
- Metallurgy / Mining
- Archaeozoology / Bioarchaeology / Osteoarchaeology
- Dress / Jewellery / Personal Ornament
- Citable Link
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