From Backdirt, research on the spatial arrangements of Bronze-Age monuments reveals an unusual conformity in the placement of towers and tombs.

The island of Sardinia in the western Mediterranean was a renowned supplier of agricultural produce in Punic and Roman times, and was repeatedly hailed by classical authors as the 'granary' of Carthage and Republican Rome.

The survey aims at examining the development of socio-political organization in Sardinia from the earliest occupation until the Middle Ages.