Defining the question: a brief history of studies on Nuragic chronology
Nuragic Sanctuaries - Symbols, Ritual and the Management of Power in Prehistoric Sardinia - Nicola Ialongo
Nicola Ialongo [+]
University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’
Nicola Ialongo is Research Assistant in the Department of Sciences of Antiquity, at “Sapienza” University of Rome. Previously coordinating fieldwork within the Bonorva archaeological project (SS, Sardinia; concluded in 2008), he currently collaborates to the excavations at the Bronze Age village at Broglio di Trebisacce (CS, Calabria) and at the village and cult place at Monte Cimino (VT, Latium). His research and publications currently focus on Nuragic archaeology and on alternative approaches to the study of prehistoric weight measures.
Description
Nuragic relative and absolute chronology has undergone several substantial revisions through the last decades. Actually, the chronological framework is under debate. This chapter will outline a brief review of the history studies, providing an overview of the current state of the debate; the discussion will focus on how different chronological schemes determine different reconstructions of late-Nuragic archaeological processes, both at a local and at a Mediterranean level.