Stephen L. Dyson is Professor of Classics at the State University of New York at Buffalo and author of Ancient Marbles to American Shores: Classical Archaeology in the United States, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Robert J. Rowland, Jr., was Professor of History at Loyola University-New Orleans.

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• Preface1 Approaching the Archaeology and History of Ancient and Medieval Sardinia2 Settling an Island: Sardinia in the Paleolithic and Neolithic3 Metal Technology and the Transition to the Nuragic Era4 The Emergence of the Nuraghi5 Technology, Commerce, and Ideology in Nuragic Society6 The Transition to the Iron Age and the Phoenician Connection7 The Arrival of the Carthaginians8 Conquest, Resistance, and Continuity in Republican Sardinia9 The Creation of the Imperial System in Sardinia10 Sardinia in the Late Empire11 Attack, Isolation, and Autonomy12 Italian Power and Local Resistance in High Medieval SardiniaBibliographyIndex