Скачать или смотреть KNIR Research Dialogues 2021/1 Peter van Dommelen

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐡𝐞: 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝐒'𝐔𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢, 𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐚

𝘕𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘩𝘪, the famous dry-stone walled towers of Sardinia, are usually regarded as prehistoric monuments, because they were first built in the Bronze Age. They continued to be inhabited long after, however, and survived as often substantial settlements into later periods. Even if the later occupation phases of these monuments are routinely acknowledged, they have rarely been investigated in their own right – which is precisely what the S’Urachi project has been doing since its start in 2013, investigating the ‘afterlife’ of one major nuraghe from late prehistory through to Classical and Hellenistic times. The Sardinian nuraghi are moreover key sites for the investigation of the colonial encounters and cultural interactions between local Sardinians, Phoenician traders and Punic settlers, because they are the only places that were continuously inhabited before and during the colonial presence of Phoenicians and Carthaginians in Sardinia.

The nuraghe under investigation is that of S’Urachi, situated in the Upper Campidano and Gulf of Oristano regions of west central Sardinia. Standing halfway between the rapidly rising slopes of the Monti Ferru to the north and the extensive salt marshes and lagoons of Cabras to the south, its inhabitants enjoyed easy access to a wide range of environmental zones. S’Urachi is one of the largest nuraghi in the region, while it is also just 15 miles away from the Phoenician colonial settlement of Tharros and the monumental indigenous cemetery of Monte Prama, which all testify to the long (pre)history of colonial encounters in this region.

In this lecture, prof. Van Dommelen presents the key results of the past seven years of excavation at S’Urachi, showing first of all the continuity of occupation throughout the first millennium BCE, and uses the evidence to explore the extent and depth of cultural interactions at the site between Phoenicians and Iron Age ‘Nuragic’ Sardinians.

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𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐯𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐧 is Director of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World of Brown University. He is Joukowsky Family Professor in Archaeology and Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies. Van Dommelen is an internationally known Mediterranean archaeologist, whose research and teaching revolve around the rural Mediterranean past and present.