Summary (English)
Tower C or “The Tower of the Women” was excavated until 1996, the main intervention being the removal of the layer of collapse in which Roman and nuragic Final Bronze Age materials were found. Several contexts were identified below the collapse relating to the use of the chamber for bread making between the 14th and 13th century B.C. Indeed, two cooking slabs of red baked clay (c. 1.20 m in diameter) were identified, on which lay fragments of cooking covers (a type of portable oven), cooking dishes, and pots. At the centre of the chamber, there was an unstructured hearth, surrounded by ashes and pieces of carbonised wood. To the rear of the chamber were the remains of a counter or bench made of reused stone blocks.
Among the most conspicuous finds were fragments of black burnished pottery dating to the final phases of the Middle Bronze Age and Recent Bronze Age bowls in grey nuragic ware. Tens of granite and basalt millstones and grinders were recovered, in addition to parts of small obsidian sickles or tribulum, and a large quantity of carbonised bread and acorns. Scanning microscope analysis showed that these were the remains of a focaccia made of unleavened flours very similar to the type represented on votive bronzes. The pottery finds included a fragment from a wheel-made light grey vase, painted with a motif of dark grey concentric circles.
Typological and petrographic analyses show that this was part of a Mycenean stirrup-vase dating to the Late Helladic III B, which came from the northern Peleponnese, probably the Argolid. The presence of an alabstron of the Late Helladic III A 2 period whose provenance from the same region has been ascertained, indicates continuity of contact with this region of Greece between the final phases of the Middle Bronze Age and the Recent Bronze Age.
- Fulvia Lo Schiavo - Direttore Museo "Sa Domu 'e su Nuraxi Arrubiu" - Orroli 
- Mauro Perra - Civico Museo “Genna Maria”, Villanovaforru 
Director
Team
- Ornella Fonzo
- Philippe Marinval
Research Body
- CNRS (FR)
- Museo di Orroli
- Museo di Villanovaforru
Funding Body
- Comune di Orroli
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