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Excavation

  • Brunku S’Omu
  • Mitza Margiani
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    • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

      MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

      ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

      AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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    Summary (English)

    • These excavations are undertaken by the University of Cagliari with collaboration from the universities of Granada (Spain) and Aarhus (Denmark). This campaign continued the investigation of the northern block in the village, with the excavation of hut 17, begun in 2015. This block appeared to be arranged around a sub-circular courtyard, on the sides of which there were at least four hut structures, already identified and excavated (1, la 16, 17 and 18) and others that were only just recognisable following removal of the surface layer.

      Hut 17, is a sub-circular hut (SN 6.80 m; WE 5.40 m) with large and small niches, and the entrance to the south. Some of the standing remains reached a height of over 2.5 m. The removal of the collapse was completed, which revealed a complex stratigraphy, with the remains (already compromised) of floors made of small stones. In the SW sector a natural rocky substrata was identified. There were two large niches in the back wall between which there was a stone bench 60 cm deep, partially created from the bedrock and in part using medium to small stones.

      This bench can be compared to an example in hut 5 of the same village. Immediately west of the entrance, there was a stone slab fixed transversely and abutting the wall: this element has also been documented in other huts in the village. The finds were numerous and varied: numerous Final Bronze Age ceramics, similar to those found in adjacent hut 16, some metal ingots, terracotta spindle whorls, bovine and deer bones. Of note, the discovery of a fragmentary quadrangular stone basin.

    • Riccardo Cicilloni – Dipartimento di Storia, Beni Culturali e Territorio - Università di Cagliari 
    • Marco Cabras – Universidad de Granada  
    • Valentina Matta– Università di Cagliari  

    Director

    • Riccardo Cicilloni – Dipartimento di Storia, Beni Culturali e Territorio - Università di Cagliari

    Team

    • Valentina Matta– Università di Cagliari
    • Marco Cabras – Universidad de Granada

    Research Body

    • Dipartimento di Storia, Beni Culturali e Territorio - Università di Cagliari

    Funding Body

    • Comune di Villa Verde (OR)

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