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Sardinian and Aegean Chronology

edited by Miriam Balmuth and Robert Tykot

Balanced between the Aegean and West Mediterranean worlds, Sardinia offers a perfect laboratory for the investigation of interaction between societies from the Palaeolithic to Roman period. This work has, however, been hampered in the past by incompatible chronologies, so the 46 papers in this volume (originated at an international congress held at Tufts University in 1995) form an important stepping stone for future research. Twelve papers in Italian take a stylistic approach, using architecture, sculpture and (for the Chalcolithic). The English-language papers discuss radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology, obsidian and other scientific approaches to dating. As the title of the book suggests, Aegean chronologies benefit as much as the West Mediterranean from the results presented here. 400p with figs (Oxbow Books 1998)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction (Miriam S. Balmuth & Robert H. Tykot)
CHRONOLOGY & CHRONOMETRY
2. Radiocarbon Dating and Sardinian Archaeology: A View from an Editor’s Desk (Renee Kra)
3. Some Cautionary Points on the Use of Radiocarbon Dates (David H. Trump)
4. Sardinia and Dendrochronology: Any Potential? (Peter I. Kuniholm)
5. Dating Sardinian Archaeological Obsidian (Christopher Stevenson & J. Grace Ellis)
6. Unacceptable Anomalies or Incorrect Use of Radiocarbon Dating in Sardinia? (Santo Tinè)
7. Mediterranean Chronology in Crisis (Peter James, Nikos Kokkinos & I. J. Thorpe)
PRE-NEOLITHIC
8. Paleolithic Sardinians: Paleontological Evidence and Methods (Paul Y. Sondaar)
9. Premier Peuplement Holocène et Néolithique de l’Île de Corse (François de Lanfranchi)
10. Preliminary Results on the Exploitation of Animal Resources in Corsica During the Preneolithic (Jean-Denis Vigne)
NEOLITHIC
11. Stratigrafie ed altri elementi di cronologia della Sardegna preistorica e protostorica (Ercole Contu)
12. Articolazione e cronologia del Neolitico Antico (Giuseppa Tanda)
13. Obsidian Usage at the Filiestru Cave, Sardinia: Choices and Functions in the Early and Middle Neolithic Periods (Linda Hurcombe & Patricia Phillips)
14. L’oléastre et le lentisque, plantes oléagineuses sauvages dans l’économie néolithique en Corse et en Sardaigne (François de Lanfranchi & Bui Thi Mai)
CHRONOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ARCHITECTURE & SCULPTURE
15. Le statuette di ‘Dea Madre’ nei contesti prenuragici: Alcune considerazioni (Angela Antona)
16. Cronologia dell’arte delle domus de janas (Giuseppa Tanda)
17. Aspetti del megalitismo nel territorio di M. Acuto (Sassari). Considerazioni preliminari (Paola Basoli)
18. Nota geologica su Punta Isteddi (Buddusò – Sassari) (Carlo Alberto Artizzu)
19. Muraglie megalitiche e recinti nella Sardegna prenuragica (Alberto Moravetti)
20. Nuovi elementi di datazione dell’Età del Bronzo Antico e Medio: Lo scavo del Nuraghe Talei di Sorgono e della tomba di giganti Sa Pattada di Macomer (Maria Ausilia Fadda)
21. Cronologia relativa del paramento murario dei vani interni di alcuni complessi nuragici. Osservazioni preliminari (Anna Grazia Russu)
22. Datazione e significato della scultura in pietra e dei bronzetti figurati della Sardegna nuragica (Ercole Contu)
CHALCOLITHIC: DEVELOPMENTAL CHANGES AS CHRONOLOGICAL CRITERIA
23. Nuovi dati materiali per una definizione dell’Eneolitico Antico in Sardegna (Luisanna Usai
24. La tipologia come strumento per lo studio di alcuni problemi dell’Età del Rame in Sardegna (Maria Grazia Melis
25. Considerazioni sulle sequenze culturali e cronologiche tra l’Eneolitico e l’epoca Nuragica (Giovanni Ugas)
26. Una fase Ozieri dell’Età del Rame nella Tomba I di Janna Ventosa (Nuoro) (Alba Foschi Nieddu)
AEGEAN CHRONOLOGY & SARDINIA 27. Introductory Remarks (Lucia Vagnetti)
28. A Catalog of Aegean Finds in Sardinia (Licia Re)
29. The Chronology of the Aegean Late Bronze Age: Unanswered Questions (Philip Betancourt)
30. Aegean and Sardinian Chronology: Radiocarbon, Calibration, and Thera (Sturt W. Manning)
31. The Absolute Chronology of Late Helladic IIIA2 (Malcolm H. Wiener)
32. The Late Cypriot White Slip I-Ware as an Obstacle of the High Aegean Chronology (Manfred Bietak)
33. Aegean Late Bronze 1–2 Absolute Chronology: Some New Contributions (Peter Warren)
SARDINIA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
34. Introduction (Fulvia Lo Schiavo)
35. Remarks on the Presence of Nuragic Pottery on Lipari (Maria Luisa Ferrarese Ceruti)
36. The Sardinian Pottery from the Late Bronze Age Site of Kommos in Crete: Description, Chemical and Petrographic Analysis, and Historical Context (L. Vance Watrous, Peter M. Day & Richard E. Jones)
37. Protocolonizzazione fenicia in Sardegna (Piero Bartoloni)
38. Phoenicians in Sardinia: Tyrians or Sidonians? (Brian Peckham)
39. Sardinian Pottery from Carthage (Magna Køllund) 40. The Nuraghe and Village of Sant’Imbenia, Alghero (Sassari) (Susanna Bafico)
41. Bearing Greek Gifts: Euboean Pottery on Sardinia (Sarah P. Morris)
42. From Macedonia to Sardinia: Problems of Iron Age Aegean Chronology and Assumptions of Greek Maritime Primacy (John K. Papadopoulos)
ROMAN AND AFTER
43. Problemi di cronologia ceramica nella Sardegna romana (Carlo Tronchetti)
44. The Chronological and Cultural Definition of Nuragic VII, AD 456–1015 (Gary Webster & Maud Webster)
CONCLUDING REMARKS
45. Sardinia and the Mediterranean: Remarks on Data and Interpretation (Patricia Phillips)
IN MEMORIAM
46. On Behalf of the Archaeology of Sardinia. Maria Luisa Ferrarese Ceruti, 1928–1993 (Fulvia Lo Schiavo)

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