Another well-attended and enthusiastic event, the penultimate in the cycle of spring meetings that have animated Cagliari’s Sa Manifattura on five different evenings since 4 March. ‘Unchanging Landscapes: Nuraghi in the Roman and Medieval Ages’ is the title of the seminar that on 13 May was attended by Dario D’Orlando, an archaeologist who deals with Greek and Roman civilisation, with a focus on numismatics, ceramics and the development of the ancient landscape, and Marco Muresu, a researcher in Christian and Medieval Archaeology at the University of Cagliari, where he teaches Byzantine Archaeology and Metallic and Numismatic Materials.
Guided by Emanuela Abis, a member of the Association, the two scholars took the 200 or so participants back in time, to better understand the continuity of the frequentation of the nuraghi in the centuries following their construction.
In Roman and medieval times, in fact, these monuments continued to play an important role, both for their strategic position and as agricultural and pastoral centres with flourishing trade relations. Some nuraghi, in the Middle Ages, were transformed into cemetery areas, hosting burials of important people with rich grave goods.
