The Cultural Life of Caves in Seulo, Central Sardinia
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https://doi.org/10.1558/jmea.v26i1.97Keywords:
caves, heritage, landscape, ritual, memory, radiocarbon datingAbstract
This paper seeks to refine understandings of the cultural life of caves—especially later prehistoric caves—in Sardinia, with particular reference to the themes of landscape and ritual performance. It also highlights significant local diversity within this category of archaeological site, drawing upon the results of archaeological research into an extraordinary group of over ten ritual caves in the territory of Seulo in central Sardinia, including a series of twenty new radiocarbon dates.References
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Holderness, H., G. Davies, A. Chamberlain and R. Donahue 2007 A conservation audit of archaeological cave resources in the Peak District and Yorkshire Dales. CAPRA 7. , last accessed 7 February 2013.
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Lilliu, G. 2003 La Civiltà dei Sardi dal Paleolitico all’Età dei Nuraghi. Nuoro: Il Maestrale.
López-Bertran, M. 2011 Practical movements: kinetic rituals in the ancient western Mediterranean. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 24: 85-109.
Losengo R. 1963 Le janas Sarde. In Atti del Convegno di Studi Religiosi Sardi, Cagliari, 270-83. Padova: CEDAM.
Maxia, C. 1951–52 Sull’antropologia dei Protosardi: sinossi iconografica. Rivista di Antropologia 39: 133-76. 1963 Luci ed ombre sugli insediamenti preistorici e protostorici nell’isola di Sardegna secondo i ritrovamenti degli ultimi dieci anni. In Atti della VI Riunione Scientifica dell’Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, 67-85. Florence: Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria.
Maxia, C., and D. Cossu 1951 Cranio dell’epoca nuragica con segni di trapanazione sincipitale in vita: studio anatomo-radiografico. Rivista di Antropologia 39: 3-5.
Mientjes, A., M. Pluciennik and E. Giannitrapani 2002 Archaeologies of recent rural Sicily and Sardinia: a comparative approach. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 15: 139-66.
Mlekuž, D. 2012 Notes from the underground: caves and people in the Mesolithic and Neolithic karst. In K.A. Bergsvik and R. Skeates (eds.), Caves in Context, 199-211. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Murgia, G. n.d. Scheda storica. , last accessed 7 February 2013.
O’Brien, C. n.d. Palaeoenvironmental assessement. Unpublished Seulo Caves Project report.
Oddone, M. n.d. Obsidian analysis. Unpublished Seulo Caves Project report.
O’Hare, G.B. 1990 A preliminary study of polished stone artefacts in prehistoric southern Italy. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 56: 123-52.
Perra, M. 1997 Seulo (Nuoro). Censimento archeologico. Bollettino di Archeologia 43-45: 269-77. 2001 Documenti archeologici del territorio di Seulo. In M. Sanges (ed.), L’Eredità del Sarcidano e della Barbagia di Seulo, 163-64. Muros: Blackwood and Partners.
Rowland, R.J. 2001 The Periphery in the Center. British Archaeological Reports International Series 970. Oxford: Archaeopress.
Sanciu, A. 2012 Seulo (CA). Scavi archeologici nell’altopiano di Taccu ‘e Ticci. , last accessed 7 February 2013.
Sanna, E. 2006 Il Popolamento della Sardegna e le Origini dei Sardi. Cagliari: Cooperativa Universitaria Editrice Cagliaritana.
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2013-05-05
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Skeates, R., Gradoli, M. G., & Beckett, J. (2013). The Cultural Life of Caves in Seulo, Central Sardinia. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 26(1), 97-126. https://doi.org/10.1558/jmea.v26i1.97
