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Excavation

  • Calasetta
  • Campo Sciamaìn
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  • Italy
  • Sardinia
  • South Sardinia
  • Calasetta

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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 2022 excavations took place in an area circa 250 m west of last season’s intervention, in a zone where an earlier survey documented the presence of surface finds, including impasto pottery, lithics, mainly obsidian, and a fragment of terracotta statuette. The archaeological deposit, formed by a series of very compact clay layers, produced a lesser number of finds than that investigated in 2021.

    A modern area of combustion was uncovered, which overlay an occupation layer dating to the final Neolithic (Ozieri I facies). This was attested by diagnostic ceramic and lithics, belonging to a probable settlement area. The settlement corresponds with the most widespread type in Sardinia in this phase of prehistory, in particular in the Campidano area and hinterland of Caglieri: positioned in an area of agricultural rolling terrain, on a slight rise, and at a short distance from water.

  • Maria Grazia Melis, Laboratorio di Preistoria e Archeologia Sperimentale (LaPArS), Dipartimento di storia, scienze dell’uomo e della formazione, Università di Sassari 

Director

  • Maria Grazia Melis, Laboratorio di Preistoria e Archeologia Sperimentale (LaPArS), Dipartimento di storia, scienze dell’uomo e della formazione, Università di Sassari

Team

  • Chiara Caradonna
  • Laura Manca
  • Marco Zedda
  • Maria Grazia Melis, Dipartimento di Storia, scienze dell’uomo e della formazione, Università degli studi di Sassari
  • Giampietro Vacca
  • Marco Mulargia
  • Dario Antonio Puddu

Research Body

  • Laboratorio di Preistoria e Archeologia Sperimentale (LaPArS), Dipartimento di Storia, scienze dell’uomo e della formazione, Università degli studi di Sassari

Funding Body

  • Comune di Calasetta
  • Università di Sassari

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