Mobility and Animal Economy in the Early Nuragic Culture: A Case Study from South-Central Sardinia

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This is an abstract from the "Integrating Isotope Analyses: The State of Play and Future Directions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The origins of Sardinia’s Bronze Age Nuragic Culture remain poorly understood. Few early Nuragic sites have been systemically excavated and published, making it difficult to assess the social, political, and economic processes that took place in the Middle Bronze Age and laid the foundations for the culture’s Late Bronze Age florescence. The research project ZANBA: ZooArchaeology of the Nuragic Bronze Age is contributing to new understandings of the political economy of the early Nuragic settlement of Sa Conca ‘e sa Cresia, located on the Siddi Plateau in the Marmilla region of south-central Sardinia. Combining morphological analysis of the faunal assemblage with carbon, nitrogen, and strontium analysis of domesticated animal remains, ZANBA is assessing hunting, animal husbandry, and patterns of mobility to understand changing economic strategies and their relationship to the growth of power at the site.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• Integrating Isotope Analyses: The State of Play and Future Directions

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Abstract Id(s): 38615.0