Layers. Archeologia Territorio Contesti

An unpublished letter by Giovanni Spano preserved in the Royal Museums of Turin and new hypotheses on the mysterious terminus trifinius of the Cornus countryside, in relation to the republican coastal road network

Attilio Mastino, Salvatore Ganga — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0100

TThe availability of the officials of the Royal Museums of Turin made it possible to collect extensive documentation relating to the relationship between Giovanni Spano, founder of archeology in Sardinia, and the Promis brothers in Turin. An unpublished letter of 27 July 1868 is presented here with a facsimile of the famous inscription engraved on three sides on a terminal stone in the Cornus area in the Republican age (exactly a terminus trifinius). There are many reasons that lead us to exclude the reading of Theodor Mommsen who thought of a praefectura Nymphaei Portus, which would presuppose the foundation of the colony of Turris Libisonis. It is possible to demonstrate that the construction of the western coastal road north of Cornus coincided with the adsignatio finium operations for immigrants from Magna Graecia, perhaps according to an original project by Gaius Gracchus. The installation of the cadastre in the province seems linked to the military operations of M. Cecilius Metellus and to the naturalistic investigations of Lucilius, which concerned Barbaria.

Spade nella Sardegna nuragica: tipologia, contesti, problematiche

Marco Matta — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:05:46 +0100

Abstract: This contribution proposes typological, functional, and sociocultural considerations regarding artifacts falling into the categories of swords and daggers chronologically framed in the context of Nuragic Sardinia (Middle Bronze - Early Iron Age), with the sole exclusion of the artifacts called «votive swords».

La place du silex au sein des ensembles lithiques du Vème millénaire en Sardaigne : le cas de Su Mulinu Mannu-Terralba (OR)

Barbara Melosu — Mon, 20 May 2024 15:16:05 +0200

Abstract: This research deals with the modes of chert exploitation in Sardinia during the Middle Neolithic B, combining information on major chert sources identified across the island with the technological analysis of the lithic assemblage of the Su Molinu Mannu open-air site, that exhibits a very high proportion of obsidian implements with a considerable number of chert elements.

La romanizzazione in agro di Monastir (SU): archeologia di un territorio alle porte del Campidano meridionale

Daniele Cinus, Emanuela Atzeni — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 08:11:54 +0200

This article presents and describes, the main testimonies of the Roman age discovered and reported since the nineteenth century in the territory of Monastir. At first, the primary objective was to bring together in a single publication, the multiple archaeological finds in the form of movable and immovable finds, chronologically placed between the IV century. B.C. and the V century. A.D.
Starting from the study of archival, bibliographic, cartographic, epigraphic, oral and toponymic sources, the research continued with field surveys using modern technological tools. The comparison between the archive data and the elements highlighted during the autopsy investigations, made it possible in the light of the new acquisitions, to reconstruct a general and preliminary picture of the phenomenon of Romanization in the analyzed area, with further study on viability and cursus publicus.

Recinti e circoli di pietre della Sardegna preistorica e protostorica. Metodologia di un’indagine

Paolo Marcialis, Maria Giovanna de Martini — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:29:40 +0200

The work that is presented is the synthesis of a decade of experimentation of the writer. The research is based on the use of WebGIS, satellite images, aerial photography at low altitude, GPS, 3D laser scanner, aimed at the identification and study of particular classes of monuments on very large territorial areas, where it would be impossible to plan an archaeological survey extensive. The monuments to be identified, the circles of prehistoric and protohistoric stones, lend themselves well to this kind of operation, both for their formal and dimensional characteristics; the use of these techniques, prior to the archaeological survey, has allowed to save a lot of time and to concentrate on those areas that offer greater potential for discovery. The analysis of only 3% of the regional territory allowed to identify 21 circles distributed in 13 archaeological sites, from the North to the South of the island.