The Sardinian Neolithic: An Archaeology of the 6th and 5th Millennia BCE

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Despite Sardinia's extraordinarily rich Neolithic record, very little of it has made its way into the general European discourse. Written as a companion to G. Webster and M. Webster, Punctuated Insularity. The Archaeology of 4th and 3rd Millennium Sardinia. Oxford: BAR International Series 2871, 2017, the present volume addresses the omission by offering a synthesis of an archaeological corpus still little known outside the island. It covers in detail the evidence of colonisations and subsequent adaptations to the Sardinia's diverse environments in terms of settlement patterns, craft industries, subsistence economies, mortuary and non-mortuary cult expressions, imagery, art and extra-insular relations with special emphasis of neighbouring Corsica, while offering interpretive suggestions. As a study of the frequentation and settling of Sardinia as a locale, a large, insular, west-Mediterranean landmass, by people with non-indigenous heritages, it furthermore locates the island's cultural modalities within the so-called neolithisation of the broader Tyrrhenian region during the sixth and fifth millennia BCE. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Acknowledgements Books by the same author Related titles TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Beginnings: The Palaeo- and Mesolithic Record 3. The Northern Tyrrhenian at the Dawn of the 6th Millennium BCE: The Archaeology 4. Pioneers of the Ceramica Impressa 5. The Cardial Phase 6. The Epicardial Phase 7. The Bonu Ighinu Phase 8. The San Ciriaco Phase 9. Summation and Impressions Epilogue. Ozieri and the End of the Sardinian Neolithic Bibliography