Nuragic

North of this main sanctuary stood a building known as the chief's sanctuary. The nuragic period occupation level in the chief's dwelling produced pig, cow, and sheep bones along with pottery, fragments of bronze objects, a crucible and some slag.

2013, Fulvia Lo Schiavo, 10: The western Mediterranean before The Etruscans, Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan World, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 209, Two points are by now acknowledged: the first, and already discussed above, is the Cypriot impact factor on Nuragic Sardinia, more than on any other western land, specifically connected to the metallurgy.

While figurines were an integral part of Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age life, they disappear from society until the later Nuragic period.[…]The lack of figurines is a conscious choice, as is the decision to produce over 500 bronze figurines (bronzetti) in phases III and IV of the Nuragic period.

Nuragic and Etruscan would have been introduced to Sardinia and Etruria ca. 1000 BCE from Anatolia.