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  • Italy
  • Sardinia
  • South Sardinia
  • Gonnesa

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • The first excavation undertaken by A. Taramelli at the beginning of the 20th century was followed, in the 1980s, by two campaigns (I – II), funded by L.R. 10/1965, which centred on insula A of the village. With the public acquisition of the area and of the medau, and two interventions which used regional funds to valorise the area (campaigns III – IV), subsequent campaigns were undertaken (1996/97), (2000/2001), (2003/2004), the present campaign VIII (2007/2008) aiming towards opening part of the site to the public.

    Amongst the remains of the settlement, the module of insula A, comprising several rooms, was seen to characterise the layout of the entire village, as seen at Santa Vittoria – Serri, Su Nuraxi – Barùmini e Brunku Madugui – Gesturi.

    Room 5 of insula A was of particular interest for the range of materials; terracotta, stone, obsidian and metal (including a fragment of silver-bearing lead ore) it produced.
    The exploration of insula A brought to light a homogeneous cultural context of the Final Bronze Age (1125-900 B.C.). This was consistent with the uncalibrated C14 dates provided by samples of vegetable carbon taken from room 10, during Miriam Balmuth’s excavation, in collaboration with the Superintendency, during the second half of the 1980s:
    a. sample 1: 2710 +/- 45 (BP) = 760 + /- 45 (b.C);
    b. sample 2: 2930 +/- 50 (BP) 980 +/ – 50 (b.C.);
    c. sample 3: 2795 +/- 30 (BP) 845 +/ – 30. (b.C.).

    On the basis of the data recovered from campaign VIII, 2007/2008, the central nucleus of the nuraghic complex, including connected courtyards to the north/north/east, east, south and west, must have been built during the late Bronze Age (end of the 14th century-1125 B.C.). This dating was suggested by the material which emerged from tower F, courtyard BI, tower G and keep A where a fragment of copper ingot was found in association with a fragment of a grey ceramic basin of the “Antigori” type dating to the full 13th century B.C. In broad terms, what seemed to emerge was that the central body of the nuraghic complex was built, ontangent to and over a pre-existing structure, probably a corridor nuraghe, on the north/north/eastern side of keep A, between the 10th-14th century B.C.

    The archaeological materials found in the layers of collapse and in better defined stratigraphic contexts in room 1, up against tower L, on the external side of the eastern defence wall and in the so-called intermediate floor of tower G below the collapse, were all datable to within a Final Bronze Age horizon, as occurred in insula A. The definitive abandonment of the complex also occurred at the same time but some structures were reused for cult purposes in the late Republican-Imperial periods (tower D), and probably the summit of courtyard BI for funerary purposes in the early medieval period.

  • Vincenzo Santoni 

Director

  • Vincenzo Santoni, già Soprintendente ai Beni Archeologici per le province di Cagliari e Oristano

Team

  • Donatella Sabatini
  • Maria Rosaria Manunza - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Sardegna
  • Elena Romoli - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Sardegna
  • Claudio Pisu - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Sardegna
  • Lorella Turnu
  • Rita Serra

Research Body

  • Comune di Gonnesa, concessionario scavi
  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici per la Sardegna

Funding Body

  • Regione Autonoma Sardegna

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