La Sardaigne et ses relations méditerranéennes entre les Vème et IIIème millénaire av.J.C. Quelques observations

Some notes about Sardinia and its Mediterranean relations between V and III millennium BC.
This article is inspired by an essay of Jean Guilaine (Guilaine 1996) about the beginnings of megalithism in the Western Mediterranean. The topic was covered with broader viewpoint and the Sardinia of the fifth millennium had its own place in there. Since then, numerous studies have deepened the phenomenon, supported by field researches and stratigraphic investigations.
The aim is Sardinia and the chronological range beginning from the second half of the fifth millennium (calibration BC), when the relations with Corsica, Italian peninsula and Southern France were consolidated through exchanges of Monte Arci’ obsidian. Further, the survey explores subsequent periods along the stages of Chalcolithic, when gradual changes happened, caused by the increasing complexity of social, technological innovations, the emergence of metallurgy, leading to a new cultural balances and imbalances. The beginning of the Late Neolithic of island is chosen as the upper chronological limit. Compared to the previous phases, the last period testifies contacts between Sardinia and the Mediterranean world and they are reflected by artefacts and raw materials but also architectural types, funerary rituals, social and religious ideologies. The lower chronological limit corresponds to the late Chalcolithic and the end of Beaker culture experience.