The Archaeology of Nuragic Sardinia - Volume 14 - Gary Webster

The Archaeology of Nuragic Sardinia - Volume 14 - Gary Webster

Acknowledgements

The Archaeology of Nuragic Sardinia - Volume 14 - Gary Webster

Gary Webster [+-]
Gary Webster is former Associate Professor of Anthropology and currently Docent in Archaeology at Umeå University. Between 1985 and 2000 as Director of Pennsylvania State University's Sardinia Research Program he led excavations at several Bronze Age sites. He has published widely on social archaeology, cultural history and the archaeology of Sardinia.

Description

The Archaeology of Nuragic Sardinia is a comprehensive synthesis of evidence bearing on current understandings of Sardinian prehistory from the 23rd through the 8th centuries BC. It is a study of the material traces left by those insular societies known famously for their unique megalithic 'Giants' tombs and intricate water-temples, as well as for the remarkable cyclopean edifices or nuraghi for which this singular 'civilization' takes its name. Following introductory discussions of the history of Nuragic research up to the present, as well as the island's natural setting, individual chapters are given over to detailed examinations of findings on chronology, settlement, subsistence, industries, trade, external relations and cult practices for successive chronological periods from the Early Bronze Age through the Early Iron Age. For each period, issues of interpretation are addressed with regard to what might be reasonably inferred about Nuragic social institutions, normative codes, cognitive orientations, identity formations, cultural hybridity and entanglements, and the role of indigenous and exogenous factors in cultural continuity and discontinuity. While the focus throughout is on the Sardinian record, due consideration is also paid to potentially related developments on the neighboring island of Corsica. A postscript features a glimpse of life at the great Iron Age sanctuary of Santa Vittoria di Serri as imagined by the late 'father of Sardinian archaeology' Giovanni Lilliu.

Notify A Colleague

Citation

Webster, Gary. Acknowledgements. The Archaeology of Nuragic Sardinia - Volume 14. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. xi Feb 2016. ISBN 9781781791356. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=29664. Date accessed: 11 Dec 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.29664. Feb 2016

Dublin Core Metadata