A lost Mediterranean culture : the giant statues of Sardinia's Mont'e Prama / edited by Barbara Faedda and Paolo Carta
"A Lost Mediterranean Culture explores the dozens of colossal pre-Roman figures discovered in 1974. These statues of archers, boxers, and warriors-as well as building models-were sculpted by a towering Mediterranean civilization that remains little known today. Thousands of shattered limestone...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : Columbia University Press, [2023] |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 112 pages; illustrations, maps; 27 cm |
| Notes: | Enthält Literaturangaben |
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Table of Contents:
- 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