The Swedish Institute at Athens welcomes you to a talk by Gary Webster:
Interrogating Monte dʼAccoddi:
The great temple mound of 4th-millennium Sardinia.
Abstract
The discovery on the west Mediterranean island of Sardinia during the 1950s of a
ziggurat-like monument dating to the early 4th millennium B.C.E. kindled the still
unresolved debate over its cultural heredity. Toward resolving this issue, I will
compare the temple mound at Monte d’Accoddi with Near Eastern ziggurats in
terms of architectural details and cult observances. On these criteria I contend
that serious consideration needs to be given to the notion that the edifice in
question is a manifestation of a migration event of as yet unknown nature and
duration initiated from Mesopotamia sometime in the first half of the 4th
millennium.