Nuragic Social Memories with Julia Gustafson

An Archaeodeath Interview with Julia Gustafson discussing landscape archaeology and social memory focusing on the Nuraghe of Sarindia.

Julia is a currently completing her Phd in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. She is the co-director of the Remember Project and the survey manager for the Prane’ Siddi Project- both in Sardinia.

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Thank you Julia, great interview!
As you said, of course they had boats, there are nuraghi in the island of Mal di Ventre and in that of San Pietro, which were already separated from Sardinia in the Bronze Age. And as you mentioned, there's Nuragic pottery in Sicily (Cannatello), in great quantity, both imported from Sardinia and locally made, and also Sardinian pottery in Cyprus, Crete, Motya, Minet El Beida, Lipari and many, many other sites, sometimes in huge quantities.
There's also some evidence of deep sea fishing, mostly from recent studies, like the remains of a tuna discovered in the Nuragic village of Lu Brandali, see for instance Alessandra Cosso's paper about that. And of course, hundreds of bronze model boats (though the latter date to the final phase of the Nuragic culture).