After the days in Cagliari on 8 and 9 June, the fifth edition of the Sardina Archeo Festival, the popular archeology festival dedicated to the Mediterranean, conceived and organized by the Itzokor cultural association, will stop in Stintino on Saturday 15th starting from 6.30 pm.
This year's theme "The imagined Mediterranean" invited scholars to reflect on the very concept of "Mediterranean" and the role and meanings that all the people who have crossed it, lived and written about it have attributed to it over the centuries , revealing how blurred the boundary can be between what is myth and what is real and how the narratives and stories that come from the past mark our present.
The stage of the Festival which will take place at the Tonnara Museum and which will be dedicated to Marco Rendeli, a distinguished historian and archaeologist from the University of Sassari who died prematurely in 2022, will see the interventions of Elisabetta Garau, archaeologist and professor from the University of Sassari , and by Ilaria Guidantoni, journalist and writer. Garau will outline the role of the archaeological complex of Sant'Imbenia, located in the bay of Porto Conte (Alghero) and its market square, during the early Iron Age, when profound socio-economic changes and changes in the methods of production brought about economic and cultural relations the local community with other Mediterranean communities. Ilaria Guidantoni will address the linguistic pluralism of the Mediterranean, between correspondences and diversity, such as to make the Mediterranean an ecolinguistic niche within which there is a strong presence of stratification where the present does not cancel the past. Matteo Tatti and Alice Nozza of the Itzokor cultural association and Esmeralda Ughi, director of MuT, will introduce and moderate.
The weekend's events will continue on Sunday 16 June, starting at 6pm, with the "GEA - European Heritage Days 2024" which will be dedicated to the archaeological heritage of the Stintino area. In fact, the research and valorization project of the Casteddu nuraghe will be presented. The initiative, born from the collaboration between the Municipality of Stintino, the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Provinces of Sassari and Nuoro, the University of Sassari and the Stintino Tonnara Museum, will highlight the importance of the little-known archaeological complex of the Casteddu nuraghe, in the territory of Stintino, near the hamlet of Pozzo San Nicola, in the Monte Casteddu area.
