A lost Mediterranean culture : the giant statues of Sardinia's Mont'e Prama / edited by Barbara Faedda and Paolo Carta.
Material type: TextSeries: ColumbianaPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]Copyright date: �2023Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 112 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780231559218
- 0231559216
- Statues -- Italy -- Sardinia
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- Italy -- Sardinia
- Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Italy -- Sardinia
- Monte Prama Site (Italy)
- Sardinia (Italy) -- Antiquities
- Fouilles (Arch�eologie) -- Italie -- Sardaigne
- Statues -- Italie -- Sardaigne
- Sardaigne (Italie) -- Antiquit�es
- HISTORY / Europe / Italy
- Antiquities
- Antiquities, Prehistoric
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Statues
- Italy -- Monte Prama Site
- Italy -- Sardinia
- 937/.9 23/eng/20230523
- DG70.M6395
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Barbara Faedda, Columbia University; Paolo Carta, University of Trento -- Rites of initiation, war, and death in Mont'e Prama / Raimondo Zucca, University of Sassari -- Mont'e Prama excavation, research, and restoration / Emerenziana Usai, Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Metropolitan City of Cagliari and Provinces of Oristano and South Sardinia -- Sardinian society in the Mont'e Prama era: a community of heroes and warriors / Guido Clemente, University of Florence; with an introduction by Marco Maiuro, Sapienza University of Rome -- Landscapes of Mont'e Prama / Peter van Dommelen, Brown University; Alfonso Stiglitz, Municipal Archaeological Museum, San Vero Milis -- The restoration and conservation of the giants of Mont'e Prama / Roberto Nardi, Archaeological Conservation Center of Rome -- Appendix The Illicit Trafficking of Sardinian Cultural Objects / Giuditta Giardini, Manhattan District Attorney's Office
This is the first English-language book to explore Mont'e Prama's limestone statues-among the most important archaeological discoveries of the past fifty years and the source of fresh discoveries even today.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter platform, viewed September 27, 2023).
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