The Mountain Sanctuary of Matzanni in Sardinia: Project Motivations and Preliminary Research Results

Abstract

The Matzanni Project tracks the role of the large mountain sanctuary of Matzanni-Vallermosa (southwestern Sardinia) in a scalar network from the local to, potentially, the Bronze Age global. Exploitation of metals in the mountainous setting of the sanctuary constitutes a major research focus together with understanding how metal extraction and religion may have intersected.

Keywords

• nuragic culture
• multi-mode survey
• bronze and iron age settlement
• networks