Editing Sherden (section)

===Eastern origin theory===
[[File:Ludy Morza (Sea Peoples).jpg|thumb|Theorized Sea Peoples migrations from the East]]
English archaeologist [[Margaret Guido]] (1912–1994)<ref>{{cite book |author=Guido, Margaret |year=1963 |title=The Sardinians |publisher=Thames Books |series=People and Places}}</ref> concludes the evidence for the Sherden, Shekelesh, or Teresh coming from the western Mediterranean is flimsy. Guido in 1963 suggests that the Sherden may ultimately derive from [[Ionia]], in the central west coast of [[Anatolia]], in the region of [[Gediz River|Hermos]], east of the island of [[Chios]]. It is suggested that [[Sardis]], and the Sardinian plain nearby, may preserve a cultural memory of their name.

Until recently{{dubious|Recently as in 1963? Or 2010s?|date=July 2018}} it was assumed that Sardis was only settled in the period after the [[Greek dark ages|Anatolian and Aegean Dark Age]], but American excavations have shown the place was settled in the [[Bronze Age]] and was a site of a significant population.{{Citation needed|date=June 2018}} If this is so, the Sherden, pushed by Hittite expansionism of the Late Bronze Age and prompted by the famine that affected this region at the same time, may have been pushed to the [[Aegean Islands]], where shortage of space led them to seek adventure and expansion overseas. It is suggested that from here they may have later migrated to Sardinia. Guido suggests that <blockquote>[if a] few dominating leaders arrived as heroes only a few centuries before [[Phoenicia]]n trading posts were established, several features of Sardinian prehistory might be explained as innovations introduced by them: Oriental types of armour, and fighting perpetuated in the bronze representation of warriors several centuries later; the arrival of the [[Cyprus|Cypriot]] copper [[ingot]]s of the [[Nuragus|Serra Ilixi]] [[oxhide ingot|type]]; the sudden advance in and inventiveness of design of the Sardinian [[nuraghe]]s themselves at about the turn of the first millennium; the introduction of certain religious practices such as the worship of water in sacred wells – if this fact was not introduced [later] by the Phoenician settlers.<ref>{{cite book |author=Guido, Margaret |title=The Sardinians |pages=187–188}}</ref></blockquote>

It has been stated that the only weapons and armour similar to those of the Sherden found in Sardinia have been dated to several centuries after the period of the Sea Peoples, which mainly covered the 13th–12th&nbsp;centuries&nbsp;BC. If the theory that the Sherden moved to Sardinia only after their defeat around 1178–1175&nbsp;BC by Ramesses&nbsp;III is true, then it could be inferred from this that the finds in Sardinia are survivals of earlier types of weapons and armour.{{dubious|Either the wording is very awkward, or the whole concept is illogical. Or both. See talk page. Maybe "immediately after their defeat", leaving centuries without finds that would be expected?|date=July 2018}} On the other hand, if the Sherden only moved into the Western Mediterranean in the ninth century, associated perhaps with the movement of early Etruscans and even Phoenician seafaring peoples into the Western Mediterranean at that time, this would solve the problem of the late appearance of their military gear in Sardinia; but it would remain unknown where they were located between the period of the Sea Peoples and their eventual appearance in Sardinia.