Indagini territoriali sugli aspetti insediamentali durante l'età del Bronzo nel contesto del Rio Mannu di Porto Torres: la Valle di Giunche

In this research, the examined area is localized in the Sassari region and affects a geographical sector of the Mannu hydrographic basin of Portotorres: the Giunche Valley.This area, that includes some municipal territories like Ossi, Tissi, Usini, Florinas, Ittiri, Siligo and Banari, is delimited from natural borders as watersheds that divide the Mannu large basin in more subsystems including, precisely, the sub-basin of Giunche Valley, vasts 50 kmq.The landscape is characterized from a set of undulating hills, sometimes steep and harsh, mainly submitted as in the antiquity as today to the pastoral exploitation and, moderately, to agricultural exploitation.The research aims to understand the settlement dynamics in this region during the Early History. It was found that Nuragic populations have implanted several permanent establishments (“nuraghi” and villages of huts), on heights and on hills, which carry out a decisive control on natural resources and, above all, on the main stream, that constituted an important source of economy and represented an important communication route for people, artifacts and knowledge.Different community meeting places accompany the seats of life like cultural order (temples) or in funerary environment (Giants tombs).From the analysis is clear that the Giunche Valley wasn’t closed on itself but was in constant contact with the surrounding territories.