The events in Sassari organised by our Association in cooperation with the Fondazione di Sardegna, the Segni Foundation, the ISSLA Association and the Università delle Tre Età continued with a meeting entitled ‘Sardinia and the territories beyond the sea: ships, routes, exchanges’.
Introducing and leading the thematic session on Wednesday 16 April was Antonello Sanna, a member of the Association. With Anna Depalmas, Professor of Prehistory and Protohistory at the University of Sassari, participants had the opportunity to better understand the relationships between peoples and the cultural, commercial and political connections between groups.
During the 2nd millennium BC, which encompasses almost all of protohistory, the seas surrounding Sardinia came between it and the Italian peninsula and other territories bordering the Mediterranean Sea. In particular, the juxtaposition of the pelagic basins influenced the cultural, commercial and political links between the settled groups and the cultural formations in the various geographical areas with varying degrees of incidence over time, proving – along with the strong tendency to bring the communities on the opposite shores closer together – the distancing function of the seas.
The conversation allowed participants to immerse themselves in a reflection on trans-Marine relations between Sardinia and other island and continental territories during the Bronze and Early Iron Ages, through the critical analysis of archaeological indicators, mainly imported and exported materials, means of transport and the territories involved in the contacts.
