The story of the  Sardinia  is old (since  Lower Paleolithic ) and particularly rich. the  stand  stable of Sardinia results from  population movements  of the  heart ceramic culture  which occurred around  6000 BC. J.-C.  from the  Italian peninsula . But it continued, over the  invasions , to give the  Sardinian people . Christophe de Chenay points out that:

" The  Sardinians  have always had to watch out for invaders […], thus, from natural hiding places, then from  nuraghi  in perched villages, the besieged people of Sardinia have always been able to resist. There remains a mistrust of foreigners, which however quickly disappears 1 . »

One can find two types of supposed origins of the name of the island. Indeed, the first, which is more of the order of  myth , comes from the term Ichnusa (Ιχνούσσα / Ichnoússa) or Sandàlion (Σανδάλιον / Sandálion) which derives from the Greek root which means footprint. This term refers to the shape of the island, "by the rough resemblance that the ancients found between its shape and that of the footprint of a man's foot" 2 .

But a second origin would come from a leader  Berber  from North Africa  (the  Ancient Libya , west of  Nile ) called "Sardus, alleged son of Hercules 3  », which establishes a colony in the south of Sardinia. Sardus was venerated, so much so that “statues were erected to him on the island, with this inscription, Sardus”.