Pottery from Sant'Imbenia (Sardinia, Italy): functions vs decorations

摘要

The Nuragic site of Sant'Imbenia in Alghero (north-western Sardinia, Italy) was inhabited approximately between the 14th and the 7th century BC. During the last centuries of its life, Sant'Imbenia lived a population of locals and foreigners, i.e. Levantines and, probably, Greeks. It is obvious that as well as goods and raw materials. At Sant'Imbenia by these exchanges and contacts it was developed a new local pottery production: in it converged local taste and "foreign" knowledge. After nine years of research and analysis we have realize a new classification of the pottery produced in the site from the beginning of the IA (10th-8th centuries BC). In this paper preliminary data on production technology of local wares will be presented: they were obtained by archaeometric analysis (MOP, IA, XRD, XRF) on pottery and raw materials sampled in a large area around the site. This part of the work is, in our opinion, fundamental in order to realize an archaeometric and technological classification of material that has to support the pottery typology.