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Zooarchaeology of the Nuragic Bronze Age

Project description

Gaining new insights into the internal social development within the Nuragic culture

The Nuragic culture was a cilvilisation on the island of Sardinia in Italy which existed between the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age. The EU-funded ZANBA project will carry out cutting-edge archaeological research with the aim of uncovering the relationships among developing elite identities, landscape use and power consolidation in the Nuragic culture during the Bronze Age. The project will create a strontium isotope baseline map of central Sardinia; then, using strontium, nitrogen and carbon isotope analysis of animal remains, it will examine mobility and animal husbandry in the Nuragic culture during this period.

Objective

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.

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MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

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CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
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€ 212 933,76
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RESEARCH SERVICES C/O MAIN BUILDING
CF10 3AT CARDIFF
United Kingdom

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Wales East Wales Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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