Abstract
AbstractThe 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.
Highlights
The Matzanni Project tracks the role of the large mountain sanctuary of Matzanni-Vallermosa in a scalar network from the local to, potentially, the Bronze Age global
This paper reports briefly on a new archaeological project that has commenced at the mountain sanctuary of Matzanni in southwestern Sardinia
Fieldwork at Matzanni began in the Autumn of 2019 as a collaboration between Danish and Sardinian agencies of archaeology and heritage
Summary
The site may epitomise a tight bond between metallurgy and religion, which invites further exploration of different scales Such a liaison may have a wider bearing on how metals and novel religious ideas were transmitted, through short and long distances, after c. The 24,000 square kilometres of Nuragic Sardinia interpose a north-south dividing line, marking an interface between broadly divergent sociocultures in the east and the west of the Mediterranean Sea. We hope to advance the state of the debate concerning Nuragic Sardinia’s position as either an isolated backwater or a well-connected hub influencing its trading partners near and far. We are especially looking west to the regions of the Western Mediterranean Sea and beyond to the Atlantic fringe as far as Scandinavia in the northwest corner of the Bronze Age world (Vandkilde, 2017)
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