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Monuments, mobilization and Nuragic organization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gary S. Webster
Gary S. Webster*
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Department of Anthropology, Penn State University, Mont Alto Campus, Mont Alto PA 17237-9703, USA
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Over the last hundred years there have been many publications on the animal remains from the Swiss Neolithic lake sites, ranging from the first descriptions of Rütimeyer (1861) to the detailed analyses of Boessneck et al. (1963) and Becker (1981). During the 1970s I had the privilege to work on one of these faunal assemblages, retrieved by rescue excavation at the site of Yvonand IV on the shore of Lake Neuchätel in the canton de Vaud (Clutton-Brock 1990).

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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 249 , December 1991 , pp. 840 - 856
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1991

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Grand and well-crafted buildings must mean grand and structured societies. So common sense tells. Here is a detailed study of the craft and labour demands that the nuraghe towers of later prehistoric Sardinia would have made on their builders; it allows a different vision of their society than a stratified hierarchy on the medieval model.

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