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Arte militare e architettura nuragica. Nuragic architecture in its military, territorial and socio-economic context. Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on Nuragic Architecture at the Swedish Institute in Rome, 7–9 December, 1989

Edited by Barbro Santillo Frizell

Twelve papers given at the first international colloquium on the function of the Sardinian nuraghi held at the Swedish Institute in Rome dealing with, in particular, the military function of the nuraghi in relation to tactics and strategy, their territorial distribution and spatial patterning; models for the interpretations of the social and economic development in nuragic society; the social significance of the nuraghi; and the art of warfare from the evidence of related finds.

Contents

Barbro Santillo Frizell, ‘Introduzione’, 7–12

Barbro Santillo Frizell, ‘Introduction’, 13–18

Miriam Balmuth, ‘Nuragic camouflage’, 19–22

Paola Basoli & Alba Foschi Nieddu, ‘Il sistema insediativo nuragico nel Monte Acuto: analisi preliminare dei fattori geomorfologici e socio-economici’, 23–40

Lucia Manca Demurtas & Sebastiano Demurtas, ‘Analisi dei protonuraghi nella Sardegna centro-occidentale’, 41–52

Stephen L. Dyson & Robert J. Rowland Jr, ‘Continuity and change in Roman rural Sardinia: The Maryland-Wesleyan survey’, 53–63

Leonore Gallini, ‘Architectural evidence for the defensibility of the territory if Sedilo (Oristano)’, 65–71

Jean-René Jannot, ‘Armement, tactique et société. Réflexions sur l’example de l’Étrurie archaïque’, 73–81

Patricia Phillips, ‘Changing functions and architectural responses at Nuraghic centres’, 83–86

Robert Rowland Jr, ‘Contadini-guerrieri: an alternative hypothesis of Sardinian cultural evolution in the Nuragic period’, 87–117

Peter F. Stary, Arms and armour of the Nuragic warrior-statuettes’, 119–142

Guiseppa Tanda & Anna Depalmas, ‘Saggio di analisi del territorio nella Sardegna centrale’, 143–162

David Trump, ‘Nuraghi as social history: a case study from Bonu Ighinu, Mara (SS)’, 163–168

Gary S. Webster, ‘The functions and social significance of nuraghi: a provisional model’, 169–185

‘Index of Localities’, 187–195

Bibliographical information

Barbro Santillo Frizell, ed., Arte militare e architettura nuragica. Nuragic architecture in its military, territorial and socio-economic context. Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on Nuragic Architecture at the Swedish Institute in Rome, 7–9 December, 1989 (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Rom, 4°, 48), Stockholm 1991. ISSN: 0081-993X. ISBN: 978-91-7042-141-9. Softcover: 195 pages.

Reviews

The Classical Review 43:2, 1993, 387-388 (David Ridgway)

Latomus 52:4, 1993, 934-935 (J. Debergh)