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About
The Barumini archaeological site in Sardinia boasts the best-known example of a nuraghe—the unique type of Bronze Age defensive complex. UNESCO added this location, “Su Nuraxi,” to its list of World Heritage Sites in 1997, in recognition of its outstanding universal value.
Our digital exhibition offers a glimpse of the remarkable structures still standing in Barumini.
Curators
Barbara Faedda
Paolo Carta
Editor
Abigail Asher
Researcher
Caterina Guderzo
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to the Autonomous Region of Sardinia (Regione Autonoma della Sardegna) for its financial support, and to the Mont’e Prama Foundation (Fondazione Mont’e Prama) for its valuable collaboration.
Thanks to the participants in the Academy’s initiatives on Barumini:
- Anna Depalmas, University of Sassari
- Giovanna Fundoni, University of Sassari
- Emily Holt, Cardiff University
- Luca Lai, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Caterina Lilliu, Barumini Foundation
- Steven Ellis, University of Cincinnati
Special thanks are due to the full staff of the Italian Academy, without whom this exhibition and related events would not be possible.
Context
This digital exhibition builds on earlier ones focused on Sardinia’s archeology—at Tharros and at Mont’e Prama—in the context of the Sardinia Cultural Heritage Project developed within the International Observatory for Cultural Heritage at Columbia’s Italian Academy.
The Sardinia Cultural Heritage Project also includes a book from Columbia University Press, gallery exhibitions, and conferences; in a related initiative, the Academy facilitated the loan of a 3000-year-old statue from Mont’e Prama to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sources
- Giovanni Lilliu, La Civilta’ Preistorica e Nuragica in Sardegna, Atti dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, vol. XV, 3, 2002.
- Giovanni Lilliu and Raimondo Zucca, Su Nuraxi di Barumini, Carlo Delfino Editore, 2005.
- Giorgio Murru, “L’architettura e la stratigrafia muraria di Nuraxi’e Cresia a Barumini,” in Le tracce del passato e l’impronta del presente, M. Perra and R. Cicilloni eds., Università di Cagliari, 2018.
- UNESCO World Heritage Convention, Su Nuraxi di Barumini
- Website on the archaeological area of the nuraghe of Palmavera
- Website on the archaeological area of the nuraghe of Santu Antine
- Website on the archaeological area of the nuraghe of Arrubiu
- Website on the archaeological area of Su Nuraxi / Barumini
- Website of the Barumini Foundation
