The Mountain Sanctuary of Matzanni in Sardinia: Project Motivations and Preliminary Research Results
The Matzanni Project tracks the role of the large mountain sanctuary of Matzanni-Vallermosa (southwestern Sardinia) in a scalar network from the local to, potentially, the Bronze Age global. Exploitation of metals in the mountainous setting of the sanctuary constitutes a major research focus togethe...
| Main Authors: | , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2020-10-01
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| Series: | Open Archaeology |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0114 |
| Summary: | The Matzanni Project tracks the role of the large mountain sanctuary of Matzanni-Vallermosa (southwestern Sardinia) in a scalar network from the local to, potentially, the Bronze Age global. Exploitation of metals in the mountainous setting of the sanctuary constitutes a major research focus together with understanding how metal extraction and religion may have intersected. |
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| ISSN: | 2300-6560 |