page_title: Beaker culture in Sardinia
section_title: Chronology
hierarchical_section_title: Beaker culture in Sardinia / Chronology
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Anghelu Ruju
context_page_description: The Beaker culture in Sardinia appeared circa 2100 BC during the last phase of the Chalcolithic period. It initially coexisted with and then replaced the previous Monte Claro culture in Sardinia, developing until the ancient Bronze Age circa 1900–1800 BC. Then, the Beaker culture mixed with the related Bonnanaro culture, considered the first stage of the Nuragic civilization.
context_section_description: The European Beaker culture is characterized by the use of classic bell-shaped ceramics. The different styles and decorations of these ceramics allow the Sardinian Beaker culture to be split into three main chronological phases:
  A1 maritime-international phase (c. 2100–2000 BC)
  A2 Italian-Sulcitan phase (c. 2000–1900 BC)
  B undecorated beaker phase (c. 1900–1800 BC)
  The various phases show the succession of two main components: the first "Franco-Iberian" (Catalonia and Southern France) and the second "central European" (throughout the Italian peninsula). Thus, it seems likely that the Beaker culture was brought to the island over a long period of time by different waves of immigrants from different regions of Europe. Sardinia was in turn the intermediary that brought Beaker materials to Sicily.
caption: One of the domus de janas of the Necropolis of Anghelu Ruju
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