![]() ![]() A sound chronology and typologies of Sardinian pottery and bronzes had to be developed before an accurate evaluation of foreign relations was possible. The record is all the more dramatic because much of the data has been discovered only in the last thirty years, with stratigraphic excavation of Phoenician colonies and of the nuraghi tower-settlements of its native culture. ![]() The emerging evidence of Sardinia’s early and striking entry onto the stage of Mediterranean history continues to impress. ![]() An exhibition in Oristano coincided with the gathering its catalogue is still listed as “in press”: Ἄχη, La battaglia del Mare Sardonio, Catalogo della Mostra (Oristano 1998). Introduced by Giovannangelo Camporeale, Director of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, and Giovanni Lilliu, the emeritus dean of Sardinian archaeology, the papers are arranged in order of the daily conference sessions, not in thematic or chronological order this intersperses essays on major issues with precise analyses of artifacts to be identified with Sardinian-Etruscan relations. It will be years before the full impact of the recent findings is registered in synthetic histories, and thus these reports by experts are essential for any scholars working on Greek, Near Eastern, Italian or Mediterranean ancient history. The Atti include interpretive, historically slanted essays mingled with first-time publication of artifacts that furnish incontrovertible evidence of the intense, prolonged interaction of the peoples of Sardinia with Tyrrhenian Etruria and the rest of the Mediterranean. This volume, the proceedings of one of the rare conferences of the Istituto di Studi Etuschi ed Italici to be held outside mainland Italy, offers a fine sampling of the variety of the contacts - technological, mercantile and social - between Sardinia, Etruria, and the world beyond. Over the last decade, the importance of Sardinia, its metals, and its Nuragic (native) and Phoenician-Punic societies, have come to the fore in studies of the history and commerce of the Late Bronze and first-millennium Mediterranean. ![]()
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