Earliest evidence of a primitive cultivar of Vitis vinifera L. during the Bronze Age in Sardinia (Italy)

M Ucchesu, M Orru, O Grillo, G Venora, A Usai… - Vegetation history and …, 2015 - Springer
The discovery of the Nuragic culture settlement of Sa Osa, Cabras-Oristano, Sardinia, has
made it possible to investigate the domestication status of waterlogged uncharred grape …

Pollen and macroremains from Holocene archaeological sites: A dataset for the understanding of the bio-cultural diversity of the Italian landscape

AM Mercuri, E Allevato, D Arobba, MB Mazzanti… - Review of palaeobotany …, 2015 - Elsevier
Over the last millennia, the land between the Alps and the Mediterranean Sea, characterized
by extraordinary habitat diversity, has seen an outstanding cross-cultural development. For …

Predictive method for correct identification of archaeological charred grape seeds: support for advances in knowledge of grape domestication process

M Ucchesu, M Orrù, O Grillo, G Venora, G Paglietti… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The identification of archaeological charred grape seeds is a difficult task due to the
alteration of the morphological seeds shape. In archaeobotanical studies, for the correct …

Time and stone: the emergence and development of megaliths and megalithic societies in Europe

B Schulz Paulsson - 2017 - torrossa.com
Figure 2 9 Sum calibration versus Bayesian statistical framework. The analysis of all
available radiocarbon dates for the Bell Beaker contexts in Southern France (Lemercier et …

The 'island of silver veins': An overview of the earliest metal and metalworking in Sardinia

M Pearce - Metalla, 2017 - metalla.org
This paper presents a review of our knowledge of the earliest phases of metal use and
working in Sardinia, based where possible on radiocarbon chronology. It covers the cultural …

Archaeobotanical analysis of a Bronze Age well from Sardinia: a wealth of knowledge

D Sabato, A Masi, C Pepe, M Ucchesu… - Plant Biosystems-An …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
In 2008, during a rescue excavation in the Sa Osa area, near the town of Cabras (Sardinia,
Italy), a Nuragic settlement was discovered. The excavation revealed numerous pits, wells …

Bronze Age subsistence in Sardinia, Italy: cultivated plants and wild resources

M Ucchesu, L Pena-Chocarro, D Sabato… - Vegetation History and …, 2015 - Springer
This paper presents new archaeobotanical data from six sites in Sardinia, Italy, dated to the
Bronze Age (2000–1100 cal. bc). A total of 978 l of sediment has been sampled and 23,008 …

A Human Occupation Cave During the B ronze A ge: Archaeological and Palynological Applications of a Case Study in S ardinia (W estern M editerranean)

C Buosi, P Pittau, G Paglietti, GG Scanu, M Serra… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Investigation of a prehistoric settlement in the south‐western S ardinia area attests to human
occupation by the Nuragic civilization in a cave during the Early and M iddle B ronze A ge …

Art and death in late Neolithic Sardinia: the role of carvings and paintings in Domus de Janas rock-cut tombs

G Robin - Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2016 - cambridge.org
Sardinian Neolithic rock-cut tombs are not merely underground repositories, but complex
and dynamic ritual architectures whose sequence of chambers was designed to host …

What are bucrania doing in tombs? Art and agency in Neolithic Sardinia and traditional South-East Asia

G Robin - European Journal of Archaeology, 2017 - cambridge.org
The interior of Neolithic tombs in Europe is frequently decorated with carved and painted
motifs. In Sardinia (Italy), 116 rock-cut tombs have their walls covered with bucrania …