Diachronic Development of Nuragic Sanctuaries and Other Cultic Contexts
Nuragic Sanctuaries - Symbols, Ritual and the Management of Power in Prehistoric Sardinia - Nicola Ialongo
Nicola Ialongo [+]
University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’
Nicola Ialongo is Research Assistant in the Department of Sciences of Antiquity, at “Sapienza” University of Rome. Previously coordinating fieldwork within the Bonorva archaeological project (SS, Sardinia; concluded in 2008), he currently collaborates to the excavations at the Bronze Age village at Broglio di Trebisacce (CS, Calabria) and at the village and cult place at Monte Cimino (VT, Latium). His research and publications currently focus on Nuragic archaeology and on alternative approaches to the study of prehistoric weight measures.
Description
This chapter addresses the stratigraphic and architectural sequences of Nuragic sanctuaries and cultic contexts in general. A substantial part of the discussion focuses on the sanctuary of Monte S. Antonio, an unpublished context made available for this research. The evidence discussed in this chapter provides substantial new elements with respect to the current knowledge on Nuragic sanctuaries, suggesting that their construction was probably the result of a relatively fast, vastly synchronic process, involving the whole Sardinian territory around 950 BC and ultimately transforming its human landscape.