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Gardening time: Monuments and landscape from Sardinia, Scotland and Central Europe in the very long Iron Age, 2021
Concepts and meanings: architecture and engineering Dry stone building technologies Canonicity an... more Concepts and meanings: architecture and engineering Dry stone building technologies Canonicity and mutability: canonicity Mutability Scales of desired social change and of corresponding physical changes The monuments: brochs Nuraghi Post-construction biographies of brochs Post-construction biographies of Nuraghi Conclusion Chapter 3 Monuments and memory in the Iron Age of Caithness 17 Graeme Cavers, Andrew Heald & John Barber The broch 'icon': a creation of archaeological historiography or the reality of Iron Age political geography? Surveying the foundations in Caithness Nybster: a study in Iron Age settlement development The defences Nybster: discussion Thrumster broch The Thrumster sequence Thrumster: discussion Whitegate: a warning Discussion Conclusion: brochs and the architecture of society Monuments and memory: brochs as physical and conceptual raw material Chapter 4 Materializing memories: inheritance, performance and practice at Broxmouth hillfort, southeast Scotland 27 Lindsey Büster & Ian Armit Broxmouth hillfort The Late Iron Age settlement Household identity Structured deposition House 4: a brief biography Discussion Conclusion vi Chapter 5 Memories, monumentality and materiality in Iron Age Scotland 37 Louisa Campbell Social landscapes and memories Northern landscapes in the Roman Iron Age The lowland brochs Lowland broch depositional trends Wider settlement depositional trends Discussion Conclusion Chapter 6 Rooted in water: the Scottish island-dwelling tradition 47 Robert Lenfert Presence in the landscape A 'wide-angle view' of islet use in Scotland Living on water-revisited Deconstructing defence Crannogs, prehistoric belief systems: ceramic and metalwork deposition Island dwellings and the concept of monumentality Island dwelling use and reuse in the archaeological record Loch Olabhat, North Uist, Western Isles Dun an Sticer, North Uist, Western Isles Eilean na Comhairle, Islay: a prehistoric crannog fit for a medieval king Buiston Ederline and Loch Awe Returning to (un)familiar places Chapter 7 Remembering Nuraghi: memory and domestication of the past in nuragic Sardinia 59 Mauro Perra The archaeological data Models of Nuraghi Other votives The votive context Conclusion
Papers by Giandaniele Castangia
In the present paper, the authors present the results of a GIS based analysis on the relationship... more In the present paper, the authors present the results of a GIS based analysis on the relationship between Sardinian nuraghi, megalithic dry stone buildings that represent the most common typology of monuments during the 2nd and the first centuries of the 1st millennium BC, and their landscape in terms of visibility. The adopted methodology focuses on the total viewshed concept, as a basic metric to assess visual properties. Four different Sardinian sub regions (Sinis, Siniscola, Marmilla, and Dorgali) and their nuraghi have been considered into the analysis, representing a significant – albeit partial – sample of the variability in locational choices found across the island. Results highlight a widespread interest in visibility from and to nuraghi, with the exception of the Sinis Peninsula, where nuraghi do not seem to act as landmarks. Moreover, no significant differences in visibility have been found between simple and complex nuraghi, while visibility data for nuraccheddus (generally considered to be unfinished nuraghi towers) seems to be compatible with a marginal landscape-level role.
Traces in Time, 2013
In this paper the author presents the results of the second systematic survey campaign of the Cap... more In this paper the author presents the results of the second systematic survey campaign of the Capo Mannu Project - September/October 2012. During this second season the team's work - a total of 137 hectares were investigated - focused in particular on the surroundings of the nuraghi Su Cunventu, Spinarba and S'Omu in the Eastern part of the study area, where some new Bronze/Iron Age settlements have been identified. Furthermore, new prehistoric tombs have been discovered in the area of Sa Rocca Tunda, where only two of them were formerly known due to illegal excavations carried out in the last decades.
Traces in Time, 2012
In this paper the author presents the results of the first systematic survey of the area (researc... more In this paper the author presents the results of the first systematic survey of the area (research area B), between the Capo Mannu promontory and the western shores of Sa 'e Proccus and the Is Benas lakes, circa 12.66 sq km / 1270 hectares. From an archaeological point of view, this area is one of particular interest for it is the one in which the geographer Ptolemy located an important harbour known as Korakodes portus, which existed during the Roman phase, and was related to the ancient city of Cornus. The amount of materials coming from the diving expeditions in the area seems to confirm the identification of the port with the Su Pallosu bay.
Traces in Time, 2013
In this report the author presents the results of the 2012 excavation campaign of the coastal sit... more In this report the author presents the results of the 2012 excavation campaign of the coastal site of Su Pallosu, located in the northern side of the Capo Mannu peninsula in Central Western Sardinia. The site was partially investigated in 2006 and 2007, revealing the presence of a Bronze Age ceramic deposit, featured by a very high density of fragments and a high number of well preserved pluri-handled necked little jars with their lids, covered by a later burial and a couple of thick sandy layers containing almost no archaeological material. The deposit has been interpreted as an indicator of some cultual activity, for the pluri-handled necked little jar form is usually found in sites with some sort of cultual characterization. During the 2012 campaign this stratigraphic sequence was confirmed and the deposit was completely excavated over an area of 44 square meters.
Excavations in the coastal site of Su Pallosu in central west Sardinia has revealed the presence ... more Excavations in the coastal site of Su Pallosu in central west Sardinia has revealed the presence of a Late Bronze Age deposit of nuragic pottery in a probably ancient pond behind a sand dune. Most of the ceramic vessels are multi handled little jars with their lids. In this dissertation the author analyzes the features of the ceramic archaeological record, in order to find the contextual significange of the deposition. Then he compares the types of vessels with the archaeological record from protohistoric Sardinia and Italy in order to provide the site with a precise chronological location in the Late Bronze Age of Sardinia. He suggest an interpretation of the deposit as a cultual feature.
Quaderni, 2016
Riassunto: Serra is Araus è un sito pluristratificato, noto per la presenza di una necropoli scav... more Riassunto: Serra is Araus è un sito pluristratificato, noto per la presenza di una necropoli scavata nella roccia (domu de janas) di età Neolitica (Cultura di Ozieri), Eneolitica (Cultura di Monte Claro) e Bronzo Antico (Bunnannaro). Lo scavo 2013 ha permesso la scoperta di due nuovi ipogei e la messa in luce delle prime testimonianze del villaggio nuragico. In particolare sono state trovate le tracce di un edificio al cui interno era stato collocato un grande modello di nuraghe. Parole chiave: Neolitico, Bronzo Finale, Primo Ferro, domu de janas, modello di nuraghe. Abstract: Serra is Araus is a multilayered site, known for the presence of a carved into the rock necropolis (Domus de janas), of Neolithic (culture of Ozieri), Eneolithic (culture of Monte Claro) and Early Bronze age (Bunnannaro). The excavation 2013 has allowed the discovery of two new tombs and highlighted the first testimonies of the nuragic village. In particular we have found traces of a building where had been placed a large nuraghe model.
Traces in Time, 2011
... informativo geografico (GIS) in uno scavo d'emergenza: il caso di Sa Osa-Cabras (OR)... more ... informativo geografico (GIS) in uno scavo d'emergenza: il caso di Sa Osa-Cabras (OR)', in Mastino, A, Spanu, PG, Usai, A ... Studies in Sardinian Archaeology presented to Myriam S. Balmuth, Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology, 3, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, pp. ...
Notizie & Scavi della Sardegna Nuragica, 2020
The paper presents the results of a series of surveys carried out by the authors in the years 20... more The paper presents the results of a series of surveys carried out by the authors in the
years 2012-2013 in the territory of Siniscola, in north-eastern Sardinia, together with some preliminary analysis on these data. In partlcular, two techniques of landscape analysis have been applied to the nuragic evidence of the area: Thiessen polygons and cost-path analysis, both carri.ed out with the software ArcMap v. 14.0. The results of the analyses reveal that no clear associatlon pattern can be found among nuragic monuments in the area, and also that nuraghi and giants' tombs were built dose to least-cost paths between settlements.
Notizie & Scavi della Sardegna Nuragica, 2020
CAPO MANNU PROJECT -THE MULTISTRATIFIED ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF SERRA IS ARAUS (SAN VERO MILIS, OR... more CAPO MANNU PROJECT -THE MULTISTRATIFIED ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF SERRA IS ARAUS (SAN VERO MILIS, ORISTANO). THE 2013 EXCAVATIONS -In this paper, the authors present the results of the 2013 excavation campaign at the site of Serra is Araus, located in the municipality of San Vero Milis, in western Sardinia. The site is featured by the presence of a prehistoric cemetery of cut-rock tombs, dating from the IV to the II millennium BC, two nuraghi dating to the end of the II millennium and a nuragic settlement dating to the beginning of the I millennium BC. The cemetery was partially excavated in the 60s, while in the area of the nuragic settlement a huge stone model of nuraghe was collected after ploughing activities in the year 2000. The new excavation, carried out on both the cemetery and the nuragic settlement, revealed on the one side the presence of new tombs, four of which were completely investigated; in the area of the settlement, the intact basement of the nuraghes model was found in its original position near to a wall, indicating the existence of some sort of structure containing the artefact.
Rivista Studi Fenici n. 41, 2013
The paper briefly discusses the Early Iron Age evidence from the area of Capo Mannu, in central w... more The paper briefly discusses the Early Iron Age evidence from the area of Capo Mannu, in central west Sardinia. Past excavations and surveys carried out in the 1980s and recent fieldwork carried out by the Capo Mannu Project since 2011, point to dynamic indigenous communities managing complex processes of production and exchange between the 10th and 8th centuries BC, gradually disappearing – from an archaeological point of view – from the 8th century BC. At that point, new materials indicate the beginning of a new phase, with imports brought to the island from all over the Mediterranean. While still limited in number, these imports attest to the signifi-cance of the Capo Mannu are, Cala Su Pallosu in particular, as a place for trade, possibly linked to the central place of nuraghe S’Uraki, located only several kilometres inland.
“Notizie e scavi della Sardegna nuragica” a cura di Giacomo Paglietti, Federico Porcedda e Samuele Antonio Gaviano, edito dalle Edizioni Grafiche del Parteolla, 2020
In this paper, the authors present the results of the Capo Mannu Project, an interdisciplinary sc... more In this paper, the authors present the results of the Capo Mannu Project, an interdisciplinary scientific project focused on the coastal area of the San Vero Milis (OR) municipality, in central-western Sardinia, for the period 2011-2017. The project involved a wide range of field activities, in particular systematic terrestrial surveys on an area of 12.66 square km, underwater surveys in the bay of Su Pallosu, excavations at the two sites of Su Pallosu (Bronze and Iron Age) and Serra is Araus (from the Neolithic to the Iron Age) and remote sensing prospection. In the considered period, 35 sites have been catalogued in the area, 2 of which have been excavated, and a relevant amount of archaeological materials have been collected, stored in the local Museo di San Vero Milis, and partially analysed.
Lithic Technology, 2020
We present the results of a study on the experimental reproduction of a specific type of macro-li... more We present the results of a study on the experimental reproduction of a specific type of macro-lithic tool, traditionally called “teste di mazza”, distinctive to the Nuragic phase in Sardinia (17th-9th century BC). We analyzed a sample collected in the area of northern Sinis – in the western-central part of the island – in order to reconstruct the sequence of the technological actions required to produce these tools. At this point, two experimental copies were manufactured, documenting the process and especially the macro-traces left on the surface of the instruments which were used to make comparisons with the archaeological data.
Riassunto: Serra is Araus è un sito pluristratificato, noto per la presenza di una necropoli scav... more Riassunto: Serra is Araus è un sito pluristratificato, noto per la presenza di una necropoli scavata nella roccia (domu de janas) di età Neolitica (Cultura di Ozieri), Eneolitica (Cultura di Monte Claro) e Bronzo Antico (Bunnannaro). Lo scavo 2013 ha permesso la scoperta di due nuovi ipogei e la messa in luce delle prime testimonianze del villaggio nuragico. In particolare sono state trovate le tracce di un edificio al cui interno era stato collocato un grande modello di nuraghe. Parole chiave: Neolitico, Bronzo Finale, Primo Ferro, domu de janas, modello di nuraghe. Abstract: Serra is Araus is a multilayered site, known for the presence of a carved into the rock necropolis (Domus de janas), of Neolithic (culture of Ozieri), Eneolithic (culture of Monte Claro) and Early Bronze age (Bunnannaro). The excavation 2013 has allowed the discovery of two new tombs and highlighted the first testimonies of the nuragic village. In particular we have found traces of a building where had been placed a large nuraghe model.
The paper briefly discusses the Early Iron Age evidence from the area of Capo Mannu, in central ... more The paper briefly discusses the Early Iron Age evidence from the area of Capo Mannu, in central west Sardinia. Past excavations and surveys carried out in the 1980s and recent fieldwork carried out by the Capo Mannu Project since 2011, point to dynamic indigenous communities managing complex processes of production and exchange between the 10th and 8th centuries BC, gradually disappearing – from an archaeological point of view – from the 8th century BC. At that point, new materials indicate the beginning of a new phase, with imports brought to the island from all over the Mediterranean. While still limited in number, these imports attest to the signifi-cance of the Capo Mannu are, Cala Su Pallosu in particular, as a place for trade, possibly linked to the central place of nuraghe S’Uraki, located only several kilometres inland.
Gardening time: Monuments and landscape from Sardinia, Scotland and Central Europe in the very long Iron Age, 2021
Concepts and meanings: architecture and engineering Dry stone building technologies Canonicity an... more Concepts and meanings: architecture and engineering Dry stone building technologies Canonicity and mutability: canonicity Mutability Scales of desired social change and of corresponding physical changes The monuments: brochs Nuraghi Post-construction biographies of brochs Post-construction biographies of Nuraghi Conclusion Chapter 3 Monuments and memory in the Iron Age of Caithness 17 Graeme Cavers, Andrew Heald & John Barber The broch 'icon': a creation of archaeological historiography or the reality of Iron Age political geography? Surveying the foundations in Caithness Nybster: a study in Iron Age settlement development The defences Nybster: discussion Thrumster broch The Thrumster sequence Thrumster: discussion Whitegate: a warning Discussion Conclusion: brochs and the architecture of society Monuments and memory: brochs as physical and conceptual raw material Chapter 4 Materializing memories: inheritance, performance and practice at Broxmouth hillfort, southeast Scotland 27 Lindsey Büster & Ian Armit Broxmouth hillfort The Late Iron Age settlement Household identity Structured deposition House 4: a brief biography Discussion Conclusion vi Chapter 5 Memories, monumentality and materiality in Iron Age Scotland 37 Louisa Campbell Social landscapes and memories Northern landscapes in the Roman Iron Age The lowland brochs Lowland broch depositional trends Wider settlement depositional trends Discussion Conclusion Chapter 6 Rooted in water: the Scottish island-dwelling tradition 47 Robert Lenfert Presence in the landscape A 'wide-angle view' of islet use in Scotland Living on water-revisited Deconstructing defence Crannogs, prehistoric belief systems: ceramic and metalwork deposition Island dwellings and the concept of monumentality Island dwelling use and reuse in the archaeological record Loch Olabhat, North Uist, Western Isles Dun an Sticer, North Uist, Western Isles Eilean na Comhairle, Islay: a prehistoric crannog fit for a medieval king Buiston Ederline and Loch Awe Returning to (un)familiar places Chapter 7 Remembering Nuraghi: memory and domestication of the past in nuragic Sardinia 59 Mauro Perra The archaeological data Models of Nuraghi Other votives The votive context Conclusion
In the present paper, the authors present the results of a GIS based analysis on the relationship... more In the present paper, the authors present the results of a GIS based analysis on the relationship between Sardinian nuraghi, megalithic dry stone buildings that represent the most common typology of monuments during the 2nd and the first centuries of the 1st millennium BC, and their landscape in terms of visibility. The adopted methodology focuses on the total viewshed concept, as a basic metric to assess visual properties. Four different Sardinian sub regions (Sinis, Siniscola, Marmilla, and Dorgali) and their nuraghi have been considered into the analysis, representing a significant – albeit partial – sample of the variability in locational choices found across the island. Results highlight a widespread interest in visibility from and to nuraghi, with the exception of the Sinis Peninsula, where nuraghi do not seem to act as landmarks. Moreover, no significant differences in visibility have been found between simple and complex nuraghi, while visibility data for nuraccheddus (generally considered to be unfinished nuraghi towers) seems to be compatible with a marginal landscape-level role.
Traces in Time, 2013
In this paper the author presents the results of the second systematic survey campaign of the Cap... more In this paper the author presents the results of the second systematic survey campaign of the Capo Mannu Project - September/October 2012. During this second season the team's work - a total of 137 hectares were investigated - focused in particular on the surroundings of the nuraghi Su Cunventu, Spinarba and S'Omu in the Eastern part of the study area, where some new Bronze/Iron Age settlements have been identified. Furthermore, new prehistoric tombs have been discovered in the area of Sa Rocca Tunda, where only two of them were formerly known due to illegal excavations carried out in the last decades.
Traces in Time, 2012
In this paper the author presents the results of the first systematic survey of the area (researc... more In this paper the author presents the results of the first systematic survey of the area (research area B), between the Capo Mannu promontory and the western shores of Sa 'e Proccus and the Is Benas lakes, circa 12.66 sq km / 1270 hectares. From an archaeological point of view, this area is one of particular interest for it is the one in which the geographer Ptolemy located an important harbour known as Korakodes portus, which existed during the Roman phase, and was related to the ancient city of Cornus. The amount of materials coming from the diving expeditions in the area seems to confirm the identification of the port with the Su Pallosu bay.
Traces in Time, 2013
In this report the author presents the results of the 2012 excavation campaign of the coastal sit... more In this report the author presents the results of the 2012 excavation campaign of the coastal site of Su Pallosu, located in the northern side of the Capo Mannu peninsula in Central Western Sardinia. The site was partially investigated in 2006 and 2007, revealing the presence of a Bronze Age ceramic deposit, featured by a very high density of fragments and a high number of well preserved pluri-handled necked little jars with their lids, covered by a later burial and a couple of thick sandy layers containing almost no archaeological material. The deposit has been interpreted as an indicator of some cultual activity, for the pluri-handled necked little jar form is usually found in sites with some sort of cultual characterization. During the 2012 campaign this stratigraphic sequence was confirmed and the deposit was completely excavated over an area of 44 square meters.
Excavations in the coastal site of Su Pallosu in central west Sardinia has revealed the presence ... more Excavations in the coastal site of Su Pallosu in central west Sardinia has revealed the presence of a Late Bronze Age deposit of nuragic pottery in a probably ancient pond behind a sand dune. Most of the ceramic vessels are multi handled little jars with their lids. In this dissertation the author analyzes the features of the ceramic archaeological record, in order to find the contextual significange of the deposition. Then he compares the types of vessels with the archaeological record from protohistoric Sardinia and Italy in order to provide the site with a precise chronological location in the Late Bronze Age of Sardinia. He suggest an interpretation of the deposit as a cultual feature.
Quaderni, 2016
Riassunto: Serra is Araus è un sito pluristratificato, noto per la presenza di una necropoli scav... more Riassunto: Serra is Araus è un sito pluristratificato, noto per la presenza di una necropoli scavata nella roccia (domu de janas) di età Neolitica (Cultura di Ozieri), Eneolitica (Cultura di Monte Claro) e Bronzo Antico (Bunnannaro). Lo scavo 2013 ha permesso la scoperta di due nuovi ipogei e la messa in luce delle prime testimonianze del villaggio nuragico. In particolare sono state trovate le tracce di un edificio al cui interno era stato collocato un grande modello di nuraghe. Parole chiave: Neolitico, Bronzo Finale, Primo Ferro, domu de janas, modello di nuraghe. Abstract: Serra is Araus is a multilayered site, known for the presence of a carved into the rock necropolis (Domus de janas), of Neolithic (culture of Ozieri), Eneolithic (culture of Monte Claro) and Early Bronze age (Bunnannaro). The excavation 2013 has allowed the discovery of two new tombs and highlighted the first testimonies of the nuragic village. In particular we have found traces of a building where had been placed a large nuraghe model.
Traces in Time, 2011
... informativo geografico (GIS) in uno scavo d'emergenza: il caso di Sa Osa-Cabras (OR)... more ... informativo geografico (GIS) in uno scavo d'emergenza: il caso di Sa Osa-Cabras (OR)', in Mastino, A, Spanu, PG, Usai, A ... Studies in Sardinian Archaeology presented to Myriam S. Balmuth, Monographs in Mediterranean Archaeology, 3, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, pp. ...
Notizie & Scavi della Sardegna Nuragica, 2020
The paper presents the results of a series of surveys carried out by the authors in the years 20... more The paper presents the results of a series of surveys carried out by the authors in the
years 2012-2013 in the territory of Siniscola, in north-eastern Sardinia, together with some preliminary analysis on these data. In partlcular, two techniques of landscape analysis have been applied to the nuragic evidence of the area: Thiessen polygons and cost-path analysis, both carri.ed out with the software ArcMap v. 14.0. The results of the analyses reveal that no clear associatlon pattern can be found among nuragic monuments in the area, and also that nuraghi and giants' tombs were built dose to least-cost paths between settlements.
Notizie & Scavi della Sardegna Nuragica, 2020
CAPO MANNU PROJECT -THE MULTISTRATIFIED ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF SERRA IS ARAUS (SAN VERO MILIS, OR... more CAPO MANNU PROJECT -THE MULTISTRATIFIED ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF SERRA IS ARAUS (SAN VERO MILIS, ORISTANO). THE 2013 EXCAVATIONS -In this paper, the authors present the results of the 2013 excavation campaign at the site of Serra is Araus, located in the municipality of San Vero Milis, in western Sardinia. The site is featured by the presence of a prehistoric cemetery of cut-rock tombs, dating from the IV to the II millennium BC, two nuraghi dating to the end of the II millennium and a nuragic settlement dating to the beginning of the I millennium BC. The cemetery was partially excavated in the 60s, while in the area of the nuragic settlement a huge stone model of nuraghe was collected after ploughing activities in the year 2000. The new excavation, carried out on both the cemetery and the nuragic settlement, revealed on the one side the presence of new tombs, four of which were completely investigated; in the area of the settlement, the intact basement of the nuraghes model was found in its original position near to a wall, indicating the existence of some sort of structure containing the artefact.
Rivista Studi Fenici n. 41, 2013
The paper briefly discusses the Early Iron Age evidence from the area of Capo Mannu, in central w... more The paper briefly discusses the Early Iron Age evidence from the area of Capo Mannu, in central west Sardinia. Past excavations and surveys carried out in the 1980s and recent fieldwork carried out by the Capo Mannu Project since 2011, point to dynamic indigenous communities managing complex processes of production and exchange between the 10th and 8th centuries BC, gradually disappearing – from an archaeological point of view – from the 8th century BC. At that point, new materials indicate the beginning of a new phase, with imports brought to the island from all over the Mediterranean. While still limited in number, these imports attest to the signifi-cance of the Capo Mannu are, Cala Su Pallosu in particular, as a place for trade, possibly linked to the central place of nuraghe S’Uraki, located only several kilometres inland.
“Notizie e scavi della Sardegna nuragica” a cura di Giacomo Paglietti, Federico Porcedda e Samuele Antonio Gaviano, edito dalle Edizioni Grafiche del Parteolla, 2020
In this paper, the authors present the results of the Capo Mannu Project, an interdisciplinary sc... more In this paper, the authors present the results of the Capo Mannu Project, an interdisciplinary scientific project focused on the coastal area of the San Vero Milis (OR) municipality, in central-western Sardinia, for the period 2011-2017. The project involved a wide range of field activities, in particular systematic terrestrial surveys on an area of 12.66 square km, underwater surveys in the bay of Su Pallosu, excavations at the two sites of Su Pallosu (Bronze and Iron Age) and Serra is Araus (from the Neolithic to the Iron Age) and remote sensing prospection. In the considered period, 35 sites have been catalogued in the area, 2 of which have been excavated, and a relevant amount of archaeological materials have been collected, stored in the local Museo di San Vero Milis, and partially analysed.
Lithic Technology, 2020
We present the results of a study on the experimental reproduction of a specific type of macro-li... more We present the results of a study on the experimental reproduction of a specific type of macro-lithic tool, traditionally called “teste di mazza”, distinctive to the Nuragic phase in Sardinia (17th-9th century BC). We analyzed a sample collected in the area of northern Sinis – in the western-central part of the island – in order to reconstruct the sequence of the technological actions required to produce these tools. At this point, two experimental copies were manufactured, documenting the process and especially the macro-traces left on the surface of the instruments which were used to make comparisons with the archaeological data.
Riassunto: Serra is Araus è un sito pluristratificato, noto per la presenza di una necropoli scav... more Riassunto: Serra is Araus è un sito pluristratificato, noto per la presenza di una necropoli scavata nella roccia (domu de janas) di età Neolitica (Cultura di Ozieri), Eneolitica (Cultura di Monte Claro) e Bronzo Antico (Bunnannaro). Lo scavo 2013 ha permesso la scoperta di due nuovi ipogei e la messa in luce delle prime testimonianze del villaggio nuragico. In particolare sono state trovate le tracce di un edificio al cui interno era stato collocato un grande modello di nuraghe. Parole chiave: Neolitico, Bronzo Finale, Primo Ferro, domu de janas, modello di nuraghe. Abstract: Serra is Araus is a multilayered site, known for the presence of a carved into the rock necropolis (Domus de janas), of Neolithic (culture of Ozieri), Eneolithic (culture of Monte Claro) and Early Bronze age (Bunnannaro). The excavation 2013 has allowed the discovery of two new tombs and highlighted the first testimonies of the nuragic village. In particular we have found traces of a building where had been placed a large nuraghe model.
The paper briefly discusses the Early Iron Age evidence from the area of Capo Mannu, in central ... more The paper briefly discusses the Early Iron Age evidence from the area of Capo Mannu, in central west Sardinia. Past excavations and surveys carried out in the 1980s and recent fieldwork carried out by the Capo Mannu Project since 2011, point to dynamic indigenous communities managing complex processes of production and exchange between the 10th and 8th centuries BC, gradually disappearing – from an archaeological point of view – from the 8th century BC. At that point, new materials indicate the beginning of a new phase, with imports brought to the island from all over the Mediterranean. While still limited in number, these imports attest to the signifi-cance of the Capo Mannu are, Cala Su Pallosu in particular, as a place for trade, possibly linked to the central place of nuraghe S’Uraki, located only several kilometres inland.
ATTI DEL CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE SAPIENZA UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA, 7-9 MAGGIO 2012, Mura di legno, mura di terra, mura di pietra: fortificazioni nel Mediterraneo antico, a cura di Gilda Bartoloni e Laura Maria Michetti, 2013
e s t r a t t o Mura di legno, mura di terra, mura di pietra: fortificazioni nel Mediterraneo ant... more e s t r a t t o Mura di legno, mura di terra, mura di pietra: fortificazioni nel Mediterraneo antico a cura di e s t r a t t o aleSSandRo vanzetti -Giandaniele caStanGia -anna dePalmaS -nicola ialonGovalentina leonelli -mauRo PeRRa -aleSSandRo uSai COMPLESSI FORTIFICATI DELLA SARDEGNA E DELLE ISOLE DEL MEDITERRANEO OCCIDENTALE NELLA PROTOSTORIA* e s t r a t t o 84 A. Vanzetti et alii Sc. Ant. inizialmente soffermati sulle caratteristiche fortificatorie e belliche, dalle quali derivare largamente le ipotesi di organizzazione sociale ed economica della Sardegna protostorica. Citiamo per esemplificazione da lilliu 1962, un volume dal titolo emblematico: I nuraghi, torri preistoriche della Sardegna.
Il sito di Su Pallosu è ubicato sulla costa settentrionale del Sinis, alle pendici del promontori... more Il sito di Su Pallosu è ubicato sulla costa settentrionale del Sinis, alle pendici del promontorio del Capo Mannu ed è oggetto di ricerche nell’ambito del Capo Mannu Project. Nel 2013 il sito è stato inserito nella concessione di scavo (ex D.Lgs 42/2004) del Museo Civico del Comune di San Vero Milis con la direzione scientifica di Giandaniele Castangia e di Alfonso Stiglitz. Il sito fu oggetto di alcuni interventi di emergenza negli anni 2006 e 2007 a seguito del sempre più grave fenomeno dell’erosione costiera che sta causando la scomparsa della spiaggia. I lavori sono, poi, ripresi in modo sistematico nel 2012 e terminati con una seconda campagna svoltasi durante lo scorso autunno 2013. Gli scavi sono stati realizzati nella spiaggia e hanno portato all’individuazione, al di sotto della prima unità stratigrafica composta dalla sabbia dell’arenile, di alcuni livelli sabbio-argillosi scuri contenenti un deposito ceramico e attribuibili al suolo di età nuragica, che caratterizza le aree costiere del Sinis. Questi livelli coprivano un livello argilloso pressoché sterile situato sopra il banco arenaceo. In varie parti del sito sono stati identificati episodi erosivi dovuti all'azione del mare e in un punto è stata scavata una sepoltura senza corredo che tagliava il livello del deposito, da attribuire probabilmente al riutilizzo dell’area come necropoli in età romana e tardo romana, nota in letteratura. Lo scavo ha portato all’identificazione di concentrazioni di vasellame nuragico in varie cavità di forma irregolare scavate nel paleosuolo di età nuragica, verosimilmente compreso in un’area umida retrocostiera, situata ad una maggiore distanza dal mare rispetto all’attuale posizione del sito. L'estensione del deposito è stata parzialmente definita, in particolare verso S e verso N, mentre rimane problematica l'identificazione di limiti veri e propri a E –per via dell'azione erosiva del mare che ha asportato completamente il deposito – e a O, laddove esso va a scomparire al di sotto della rimanente porzione di duna retro-costiera, oggi occupata dalla borgata marina di Su Pallosu, i cui edifici occupano verosimilmente lo spazio dell’insediamento corrispondente al deposito. Sulla base degli studi finora condotti sul materiale ceramico, il deposito è ascrivibile alla fase del Bronzo Recente (XIV-XIII sec. a.C.), per quanto al suo interno siano presenti isolati frammenti riferibili a fasi precedenti e più tarde. Al momento, la mancanza di un qualsiasi contesto monumentale rende l’interpretazione dell'evidenza del deposito alquanto difficoltosa, se non in un senso genericamente cerimoniale.
Nel poster vengono presentati i risultati di un lavoro di revisione della mappatura dell’evidenza... more Nel poster vengono presentati i risultati di un lavoro di revisione della mappatura dell’evidenza territoriale nuragica del comune di Siniscola, condotto dagli autori durante gli anni 2012-2013, assieme ai risultati di due differenti tipi di analisi territoriali effettuate sul dato aggiornato: poligoni di Thiessen e cost-pathanalysis. L’evidenza archeologica ascrivibile al II millennio e al primo quarto del I millennio a.C. è costituita da un limitato numero di siti, di dimensioni contenute e concentrati principalmente nelle aree vallive. Almeno quattro distinti sistemi territoriali sono distinguibili nella regione, e la distribuzione di abitati e monumenti sembra seguire preferibilmente i due maggiori sistemi idrologici, quelli del Rio Siniscola e del Rio Berchida. La qualità dell’evidenza è abbastanza buona in termini di visibilità degli insediamenti, mentre presenta numerosi problemi per quanto concerne l’esatta localizzazione dei monumenti. L’alto numero di grotte rappresenta un elemento fondamentale di questo paesaggio archeologico: l’evidenza dimostra come molte di esse siano state utilizzate in epoca nuragica per i più differenti scopi, dalla sepoltura allo svolgimento di attività domestiche e produttive. Oltre a 7 grotte, sono stati mappati nel territorio in questione 22 nuraghi, 9 insediamenti e 4 tombe di giganti. L’applicazione del metodo dei poligoni di Thiessen all’evidenza territoriale di Siniscola, effettuata considerando come centro dei poligoni sia gli insediamenti che i villaggi, ha dimostrato come tale approccio sia profondamente inadeguato all’analisi di un contesto come quello della Sardegna del II millennio a.C. e del territorio in questione in particolare, per vari motivi legati alle limitazioni insite nello strumento stesso. La costpathanalysis ha dato invece risultati interessanti: essi dimostrano come nell’area investigata i nuraghi fossero costruiti in prossimità di percorsi di minor costo tra gli insediamenti. Questo significa che i nuraghi furono probabilmente inseriti nel contesto di un paesaggio già strutturato da vie di comunicazione esistenti. I risultati delle due analisi vengono presentati non casualmente nello stesso lavoro: mentre infatti il metodo dei poligoni di Thiessen presuppone l’identificazione di entità classificabili come ‘centri’, che siano essi nuraghi o villaggi, l’approccio che considera le antiche vie di percorrenza sembrerebbe più adeguato ad un approccio territoriale ‘policentrico’ come quello nuragico, all’interno del quale esso mostra come i ‘modello nuraghe’ fu innestato all’interno di un paesaggio già fortemente connesso, frutto di millenni di stanziamento umano. Questo dato, laddove dimostrabile altrove nell’isola, potrebbe gettare luce sul senso della spiccata eterogeneità dei sistemi territoriali nuragici.
IL RECORD NURAGICO DEL COMUNE DI SINISCOLA: REVISIONE DELL’EVIDENZA E ANALISI TERRITORIALE. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317105987_IL_RECORD_NURAGICO_DEL_COMUNE_DI_SINISCOLA_REVISIONE_DELL%27EVIDENZA_E_ANALISI_TERRITORIALE [accessed Jul 19, 2017].
CAPO MANNU PROJECT - IL SITO PLURISTRATIFICATO DI SERRA IS ARAUS (SAN VERO MILIS, ORISTANO). GLI ... more CAPO MANNU PROJECT - IL SITO PLURISTRATIFICATO DI SERRA IS ARAUS (SAN VERO MILIS, ORISTANO). GLI SCAVI 2013
, in cui il geografo Claudio Tolomeo collocava uno scalo noto in epoca romana come Korakodes port... more , in cui il geografo Claudio Tolomeo collocava uno scalo noto in epoca romana come Korakodes portus, rappresenta un interessante caso di studio sulle dinamiche di formazione e gestione del paesaggio da parte delle comunità costiere della Sardegna centro-occidentale durante la prima età del Ferro. Esso è attualmente oggetto di ricerche territoriali di ricognizione sistematica di superficie, prospezioni geofisiche e indagini geoarcheologiche nell'ambito del Capo Mannu Project.
In the dissertation I show the results of a study on the stratigraphic features, the pottery and ... more In the dissertation I show the results of a study on the stratigraphic features, the pottery and the lithics of the X20-21 and Y20-21 squares of Sa Osa, a nuragic settlement (Sardinian Bronze Age) in central western Sardinia.