A Companion to Sardinian History, 500–1500

Contribution Of Archaeology To Medieval And Modern Sardinia 311 The planning of future research around the abandoned villages of ...

312 Milanese on cross-written sources and materials can, perhaps, move well beyond this, and certainly develop a significant pla ...

Contribution Of Archaeology To Medieval And Modern Sardinia 313 Finally, it should be remembered that to aspire to a more mature ...

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Cagliari 315 Villanova (see infra Cadinu chapter Fig. 19.17). The Roman and Byzantine city were concealed under many meters of e ...

316 Martorelli century. Because of his opposition to Arianism, he was sent into exile in the Near East by the Byzantine emperor, ...

Cagliari 317 and was mostly focused on creating a statistical census and understanding the economic and military status of the i ...

318 Martorelli the previous century, following the works of Pietro Martini18 and of Giuseppe Manno.19 In 1845 Cosimo Manca, fria ...

Cagliari 319 from the Middle Ages, was moved to the harbor, where between the end of nineteenth and the beginning of the twentie ...

320 Martorelli perhaps devoted to Venus, came to light. The excavations undertaken by Paolo Mingazzini28 were completed years la ...

Cagliari 321 In the 1980s Urban Archaeology was born: the districts were now explored36 with a more scientific methodology.37 So ...

322 Martorelli where a stratigraphy from the Punic age to the present day was discovered;41 and finally the area under the Basti ...

Cagliari 323 History and Topography of Cagliari The southern Sardinian city of Cagliari sits along the coast of the Santa Gilla ...

324 Martorelli Figure 12.1 Cagliari, the city plan with details of the alleged urban perimeter: a. Fragments under the walls of ...

Cagliari 325 Other historic excavations have brought to light the ruins of a long wall made of big blocks of stone, running arou ...

326 Martorelli fortification of Cagliari, which surrounded the town at least until the end of the seventh century BC.51 New info ...

Cagliari 327 the intercolumns, turning it into, perhaps, a private house.57 On the opposite side, two large houses made of big b ...

328 Martorelli that this area was also already urbanized in the Roman era, when it was en- larged with a new quarter.61 Archaeol ...

Cagliari 329 Figure 12.5 Cagliari, archaeological area in Vico III Lanusei, the cemetery. photo: from Archeologia urbana. Figure ...

330 Martorelli the thirteenth century.62 It seems possible that the inhabitants moved to an- other site, as the old town’s proxi ...