El mundo funerario: actas del III Seminario …, Jan 1, 2005
The objective of this study is to analyze the commercial and cultural exchanges between Sardinia ... more The objective of this study is to analyze the commercial and cultural exchanges between Sardinia and the Iberic peninsula during the period starting at the end of Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age. The innovative aspect of this work is that it does not view the Nuragic civilization as a single, unique entity, but takes into consideration the most recent discoveries which put forth the hypothesis that the Nuragic civilization was a grouping of many different communities, some of which had a strong nautic propensity. This reality, together with the fact that starting in the first half of the second millennium B.C. it appears that the Sardinian coasts were visited by boats originating from the Eastern Mediterranean, must have given rise to a Nuragic navy, over time. While there is no objective proof, the fact that there have been no discoveries of Sardinian nautical relics or ship-yards, a number of elements examined and analyzed in this study seem to support the theory. In addition, the existence of a Nuragic navy would explain the considerable traffic initiated at the end of the Bronze Age, between the Iberian and Mediterranean coast of Italy, in which the Northern Sardinian community played a fundamental role. In this context of Culture Contact during the ninth century B.C., a new protagonist came onto the scene, the Phoenician navy. Another innovative element of this work is the hypothesis that the discovery of Western markets by the Phoenicians was facilitated by the collaboration of indigenous navies, particularly the Nuragic navies. Thanks to the latter, the Phoenicians were able to meet up with the rich markets of the Etrurian and Latium Vetus on one side, and those of the Atlantic and Mediterranean Andalusian areas on the other side. This work focuses on the analyses of this latter aspect, taking into consideration the most recent discoveries that tend to support the hypotheses described above.
El mundo funerario: actas del III Seminario …, Jan 1, 2005
The objective of this study is to analyze the commercial and cultural exchanges between Sardinia ... more The objective of this study is to analyze the commercial and cultural exchanges between Sardinia and the Iberic peninsula during the period starting at the end of Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age. The innovative aspect of this work is that it does not view the Nuragic civilization as a single, unique entity, but takes into consideration the most recent discoveries which put forth the hypothesis that the Nuragic civilization was a grouping of many different communities, some of which had a strong nautic propensity. This reality, together with the fact that starting in the first half of the second millennium B.C. it appears that the Sardinian coasts were visited by boats originating from the Eastern Mediterranean, must have given rise to a Nuragic navy, over time. While there is no objective proof, the fact that there have been no discoveries of Sardinian nautical relics or ship-yards, a number of elements examined and analyzed in this study seem to support the theory. In addition, the existence of a Nuragic navy would explain the considerable traffic initiated at the end of the Bronze Age, between the Iberian and Mediterranean coast of Italy, in which the Northern Sardinian community played a fundamental role. In this context of Culture Contact during the ninth century B.C., a new protagonist came onto the scene, the Phoenician navy. Another innovative element of this work is the hypothesis that the discovery of Western markets by the Phoenicians was facilitated by the collaboration of indigenous navies, particularly the Nuragic navies. Thanks to the latter, the Phoenicians were able to meet up with the rich markets of the Etrurian and Latium Vetus on one side, and those of the Atlantic and Mediterranean Andalusian areas on the other side. This work focuses on the analyses of this latter aspect, taking into consideration the most recent discoveries that tend to support the hypotheses described above.
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