Marisa Ruiz-Gálvez

La cronología de la Cultura Nurágica y los inicios de la Edad del Hierro y de las colonizaciones históricas en el Mediterráneo Centro-Occidental. Una aproximación desde la cronología radiocarbónica y el registro arqueológico

One of the aims of the field season was to gather enough 14C samples to postulate the Nuragic settlement synchrony/diachrony in the Pranemuru plateau. The result was 19 standard or AMS 14C samples from eight different sites, ranging from Middle Bronze to First Iron Ages. Currently, this record is the more complete collection available for a Sardinia area. Furthermore, it is unique in presenting 14C datings and archaeological data indicating Phoenician presence inland. Due to the scarce 14C datings for the end of the Bronze Age in the colonial central Mediterranean area -as opposed to the western Mediterranean- western samples are analysed, specially the ones covering the end of Mycenaean palaces and Phoenician colonisation, in order to contextualise the final height of the Nuragic Culture. Thus, pre-Phoenician Final Bronze Age dates and contexts in the Iberian Peninsula are discussed, as well as the dates for western Phoenician colonies, the absolute chronology for the first western Phoenician/indigenous peoples and the chronology for the Final Bronze/First Iron Ages in Italy. The authors remark the need to revise the early chronology in the Mediterranean and redefine the causes and contexts of Greek and Phoenician colonisations.