Name: 50 Years Since the Discoveries at Mont’e Prama: Sardinia’s 3000-Culture
Start: 2025-03-27T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-27T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Italian Academy, Columbia University

$50 Years Since the Discoveries at Mont\u2019e Prama: Sardinia\u2019s 3000-Culture$

Expert researchers gather for a roundtable talk about discoveries made at Mont’e Prama by archaeologists, historians, and conservators.
About this Event

In 1974, thousands of shattered bits of limestone surfaced in a Sardinian field. Now reassembled into dozens of colossal statues, they tell of a powerful Mediterranean civilization from the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.
These figures and their site, a monumental necropolis, are among the most important archaeological discoveries of the past fifty years.
Expert researchers will gather for a roundtable talk about discoveries made at this site by archaeologists, historians, conservators, and restorers.

Opening remarks
Barbara Faedda, Italian Academy, Columbia University
Paolo Carta, University of Trento
Fabrizio Di Michele, Consul General of Italy in New York
Giuseppe Meloni, Autonomous Region of Sardinia
Anthony Muroni, Mont’e Prama Foundation
Speakers
Anna Depalmas, University of Sassari
Peter van Dommelen, Brown University
Ilaria Orri, Mont’e Prama Foundation
Sean Hemingway, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Moderator
Steven Ellis, University of Cincinnati

Organizers: Barbara Faedda, Italian Academy, Columbia University; Paolo Carta, University of Trento
Co-sponsors: The Autonomous Region of Sardinia; the Mont’e Prama Foundation

This initiative is part of the Italian Academy's which includes books from Columbia University Press, digital exhibitions and gallery exhibitions, and other conferences. In a related initiative, the Academy facilitated the loan of a 3000-year-old statue from Mont’e Prama to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This project is under the umbrella of the Academy’s .

Image: Centro di Conservazione Archeologica (CCA), Rome

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