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2/26/2003
3:56:40 pm EST
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Sardinia’s Bronze Age Nuraghi
Author: Robert H. Tykot Source: Archaeology Odyssey
Title: VILLAGES OF STONE
“It lies outside; outside the circuit of civilisation.” That’s how D.H. Lawrence described Sardinia in Sea and Sardinia (1923), and until recently that’s what many thought about this island: During the third and second millennia B.C., Sardinia remained isolated from the vibrant cultures of the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean. Decades of archaeological research, however, paint a different picture. Not only did the Bronze Age Sardinians maintain contact with the Minoans and Mycenaeans, but they may also have migrated to the Near East. Many scholars identify a people called the Shardana, mentioned in a number of Egyptian texts, as Sardinians (see Sardinians in Israel). Pharaoh Ramesses II (1279-1212 B.C.) complained that the Shardana “came boldly in their warships from the midst of the sea, none being able to withstand them.”
The Neolithic period is characterized by the use of domesticated animals (sheep, goats, cattle, pigs) and plants (wheat, barley, legumes). Animal husbandry and agriculture spread from the Near East to southeastern Europe, the Danube River basin and the Mediterranean region. The Neolithic Sardinians also began making pottery, often decorated with shell impressions (a widespread practice in the western Mediterranean), and engaging in long-distance trade: Obsidian from Sardinia’s Monte Arci has been found at Neolithic sites in Corsica, Italy and France.
In this period, the Sardinians apparently developed distinctive religious and mortuary rituals. At Monte d’Accoddi in northwest Sardinia, for example, they built a 130-foot-long “altar” consisting of a ramp that leads up to a ziggurat-like platform with a red-painted shrine at its center. Unfortunately, we have no texts to tell us what went on in this shrine.
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| Me Too AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH... | Feb 27th. at 6:56:46 am EST |
by Old Gray Mouse (Sturbridge MA) - wc_xemail
very interesting stuff. I've read about Malta, but you don't see much about Sardinia.
Since the only surviving Sardinian word is 'vendetta', I'm surprised they didn't try to link that to the nearby Sicilian mafia.
mouse
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| AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH... | Feb 27th. at 5:38:29 am EST |
by Moon (New York) - wc_xemail
....the world still hold many secrets we have yet to discover. One reason why we should never claim we know it all just yet. :)
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