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Depiction of the Sardus Pater Babai in a Roman coin (59 B.C.). Not much can be gathered from the classical literature about the origins of the Sardinian people. [17] The ethnonym "S(a)rd" may belong to the Pre-Indo-European (or Indo-European [18]) linguistic substratum, and whilst they might have derived from the Iberians, [19] [20] the accounts of the old authors differ greatly in this respect.
Recent comparisons between the Sardinians' genome and that of some individuals from the Neolithic and the early Chalcolithic, who lived in the Alpine (), German, and Hungarian regions, showed considerable similarities between the two populations, while at the same time consistent differences between the prehistoric samples and the present inhabitants of the same geographical areas were noted. [7]
Archaeological evidence of prehistoric human settlement on the island of Sardinia is present in the form of nuraghes and other prehistoric monuments, which dot the land. The recorded history of Sardinia begins with its contacts with the various people who sought to dominate western Mediterranean trade in classical antiquity: Phoenicians, Punics and Romans.
The Nuragic civilization, [1] [2] also known as the Nuragic culture, formed in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italy in the Bronze Age.According to the traditional theory put forward by Giovanni Lilliu in 1966, it developed after multiple migrations from the West of people related to the Beaker culture who conquered and disrupted the local Copper Age cultures; other scholars instead ...
The findings are also a bit reminiscent of common characteristics of centenarians that live in the Blue Zones, areas in the world with longer life expectancies and lower rates of chronic disease ...
If the Corsi, dwelling in Corsica and in the northernmost tip of Sardinia , were a subset of the Ligurians [3] and a group of tribes (they probably were an Indo-European people related to the Celts), then they would have been of a different ethnic and linguistic affiliation from the majority of the tribes of Sardinia (although Emidio De Felice ...
Sardinia lost more young people than any other Italian region on the front, with 138 casualties per 1000 soldiers compared to the Italian average of 100 casualties. During the Fascist period, with the implementation of the policy of autarky, several swamps around the island were reclaimed and agrarian communities founded.
The Corsi resided in the northernmost part of Sardinia. Strait of Bonifacio, the coast of Corsica as seen from Sardinia. The Corsi were an ancient people of Sardinia and Corsica, to which they gave the name, as well as one of the three major groups among which the ancient Sardinians considered themselves divided (along with the Balares and the ...