Descripción del proyecto
Nuevos conocimientos sobre el desarrollo social interno de la cultura nurágica
La cultura nurágica fue una civilización que pobló la isla de Cerdeña (Italia) durante la Edad del Bronce y la Edad del Hierro temprana. El equipo del proyecto ZANBA, financiado con fondos europeos, llevará a cabo una investigación arqueológica puntera con el objetivo de descubrir las relaciones entre el desarrollo de las identidades de las élites, el uso del paisaje y la consolidación del poder en la cultura nurágica durante la Edad del Bronce. En el proyecto se creará un mapa de referencia de isótopos de estroncio del centro de Cerdeña y, a continuación, se estudiará la movilidad y la cría de animales en la cultura nurágica en este período mediante un análisis de isótopos de carbono, estroncio y nitrógeno de restos animales.
Objetivo
ZANBA will combine cutting-edge, multi-scalar isotope analyses with morphological analysis of zooarchaeological remains to
understand the relationships among developing elite identities, landscape use, and power consolidation in the Nuragic
Culture of Bronze Age Sardinia (c. 1700-1100 BCE). Assemblages of archaeofauanas from two sites that represent the full
development of the Nuragic Culture will be analysed for evidence of feasting, hunting, collection of tribute, intensification of
the animal economy, and other behaviours that are used by incipient elites to promote an elite group identity and consolidate
power. Specimens from these archaeofaunas representing raised, managed, and hunted animal species will then be
analysed using multiple isotopes for evidence of economic intensification and expanding territorial control. The combined
results of both studies will be used to construct a new narrative of internal social development within the Nuragic Culture.
Such a multi-disciplinary study is unique in Nuragic Sardinia, where isotope studies have never been applied to
archaeofaunas and where morphological studies have often addressed the animal economy of the Nuragic Culture as a
undifferentiated whole with few attempts to understand its internal social dynamics during the Culture's 600-year
development. The detailed study and reassessment of Nuragic social dynamics provided by ZANBA is necessary and timely
as new archaeological discoveries are indicating that the Nuragic Culture played a larger role in European Bronze Age
exchange networks than has previously been recognized.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
Régimen de financiación
MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EFCoordinador
CF24 0DE Cardiff
Reino Unido