La Ceramica nuragica della prima età del ferro

The present study focuses on the production of nuragic pottery during the early Iron Age (about 950-730 BC.). As widely known ceramic productions enables to make large scale comparisons, both synchronic and diachronic, allowing to underline chronological, functional, economic and cultural differences, whereas each stage of the processes related to ceramic production is affected by the functions of the objects and by a wide range of human and natural factors. A substantial part of the work has involved a careful review of ceramic ware already known and published, taking into account more than one hundred islanders archaeological contexts. Furthermore, the data collected were crossed with those coming from the context of the partially published site of Nuracraba in Oristano (OR), through the study of pottery from the remains of a large dump, named discarica D1, filled by ashes and animal bones together with a great number of ceramic fragments.