| Outline chronology of Sardinian prehistory and protohistory | |||||
| Years B.C. | Period | Cultures | |||
| 250.000 – 100.000 |
Paleolithic
|
Lower | Clactonian (Anglona) | ||
| 100.000 – 40.000 | Middle | No finds | |||
| 40.000 – 20.000 | Upper 1 | No finds | |||
| 20.000 – 10.000 | Upper 2 | “Corbeddu” Cave (Oliena) | |||
| 10.000 – 6000 | Mesolithic | Undifferentiated Epipalaeolithic (Laerru) | |||
| 6000 – 4700 |
Neolithic
|
Early | Cardial or impressed pottery, “Grotta Verde” phase, “Filiestru” phase | ||
| 4700 – 4100 | Middle | “Bonuighinu” culture | |||
| 4100 - 4000 | Transition | “San Ciriaco” facies | |||
| 4000 - 3300 | Late | “Ozieri” culture | |||
| 3300 - 3200 | Transition | “Sub-Ozieri” facies | |||
| 3200 – 2800 |
Eneolithic (copper age)
|
Initial 1 | “Filigosa” culture | ||
| 2800 - 2700 | Initial 2 | “Abealzu” culture | |||
| 2700 - 2500 | Full | “Monte Claro” culture 1 | |||
| 2500 - 2200 | Final | “Monte Claro” culture 2 | “Beaker” culture | ||
| 2200 - 1900 |
Bronze age
|
Early 1 | “Bonnanaro” culture I (Corona Moltana) | ||
| 1900 - 1800 | Early 2 | “Bonnanaro” culture II (Sant’Iroxi) | |||
| 1800 – 1600 | Middle 1 | Nuragic IA | Sa Turricula (Bonnanaro III) | ||
| 1600 – 1400 | Middle 2 | Nuragic IB | San Cosimo, metope-decorated pottery | ||
| 1400 – 1200 | Late | Nuragic II | Comb-decorated pottery, gray pottery | ||
| 1200 – 900 | Final | Nuragic III | Pre-geometric pottery | ||
| 900 – 730 |
Iron age
|
Early 1 | Nuragic IV A | Geometric period |
Phoenicians |
| 730 – 600 | Early 2 | Nuragic IV B | Orientalizant period | ||
| 600 – 510 | Early 3 | Nuragic IV C | Archaic period | ||
| 510 – 238 | Late | Nuragic V A | Punic | ||
| 238 B.C. – 456 A.C. | Historical period | Nuragic V B | Roman | ||
| (from P. Melis) | |||||
