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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