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Insularity. The Archaeology of 4th and 3rd millennium Sardinia, Oxford: BAR International Series 2871; Webster, G. 2019. "Identifying Monte D'Accoddi, Sardinia's 4th-millennium ziggurat", Sardinia, Corsica et Baleares Antiquae XVII,
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pottery appears at Monte d'Accoddi after c. 2500 BC. Finds include hemispheric bowls, cups, tripods or tetrapods, and carenated bowls. Vessels were decorated in the 'pure
Maritime style', as well as with more complex arrangements of triangles or zigzags.
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Between 3500 and 3000 BC the remains of the original structure were completely covered with a layered mixture of earth and stone, and large blocks of limestone were then applied to establish a second platform, forming a
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Based on the evidence of architecture, ritual deposits and diagnostic pottery, G. and M. Webster argued, in 2017 & 2019, for the monument's status as a product of a migration event (probably exilic) initiated from
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The surroundings of the Monte d'Accoddi have been excavated in the 1960s, and have provided the signs of a considerable sacred center. Near the south-eastern corner of the monument there is a
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in prehistoric society, and earning it a designation as "the most singular cultic monument in the early
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m long, built over the older one. This second temple resembles
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