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

Webster, Maud; Webster, Gary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1407316192 ISBN 13 : 9781407316192

Editeur : BAR Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

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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Gary Webster and Maud Webster

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: BAR Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1407316192
• ISBN 13: 9781407316192
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 172
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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