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X-WR-CALNAME:Lunch Club Series | Nuragic Nostalgia: Cultural Memory\, Local
  Traditions and Colonial Entanglements in Iron Age Sardinia
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DESCRIPTION:Lunch Club provides affiliates of the Stanford Archaeology Cent
 er with a community-oriented forum for engagement with current issues in a
 rchaeology. On February 5\, 2024 we will host Dr. Peter van Dommelen from 
 Brown University.\n\nAbstract:\n\nAs was the case throughout most of the M
 editerranean\, for the prehistoric (Indigenous) Nuragic communities of Sar
 dinia\, the Iron Age was a period of profound social and political transfo
 rmations. Many long-existing settlements were abandoned\, other communitie
 s reorganized themselves\, and a small number of ritual centers grew into 
 major sanctuaries that also served as venues for elite encounters and disp
 lay of prestige and power. At the same time\, networks of overseas connect
 ions expanded and exchanges intensified\, which included Phoenicians settl
 ing among existing Indigenous communities\; eventually\, they also establi
 shed their own separate settlements. Amidst all these changes\, local comm
 unities developed a strong sense of place and belonging and\, in particula
 r\, references to the older Nuragic past rapidly became commonplace and ev
 entually even hallmarks of the Iron Age.\n\nWhile the broad outlines of Ph
 oenician exploration and subsequent Carthaginian occupation of southern Sa
 rdinia and other regions across the West Mediterranean are for the most we
 ll documented\, we are much less\, if at all\, informed about local percep
 tions of and Indigenous involvement in these so-called colonial processes\
 , as these played out over multiple centuries of the first millennium BCE.
  \n\nIn this presentation\, I draw on a decade of extensive excavations at
  nuraghe S’Urachi and other research in the field and laboratory to sket
 ch a picture of the Iron Age and its social transformations in central wes
 tern Sardinia from an Indigenous perspective. By highlighting key aspects 
 of daily life and community organization among Indigenous communities of t
 his region\, my aim is to explore the dynamics and its key features of loc
 al cultural continuity and persistence in Iron Age Sardinia.
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LOCATION:Building 500\, Archaeology Center\, 106
SUMMARY:Lunch Club Series | Nuragic Nostalgia: Cultural Memory\, Local Trad
 itions and Colonial Entanglements in Iron Age Sardinia
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/lunch-club-series-nuragic-n
 ostalgia-cultural-memory-local-traditions-and-colonial-entanglements-in-ir
 on-age-sardinia
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