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The Nuragic civilization, [1] [2] also known as the Nuragic culture, formed in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italy in the Bronze Age.According to the traditional theory put forward by Giovanni Lilliu in 1966, it developed after multiple migrations from the West of people related to the Beaker culture who conquered and disrupted the local Copper Age cultures; other scholars instead ...
The nuraghe, or nurhag, [1] is the main type of ancient megalithic edifice found in Sardinia, Italy, developed during the Nuragic Age between 1900 and 730 BC. [2] Today it has come to be the symbol of Sardinia and its distinctive culture known as the Nuragic civilization. More than 7,000 nuraghes have been found, though archeologists believe ...
Bronze Age Sardinia is characterised by stone structures called nuraghes, of which there are more than 8,000. The most famous is the complex of Barumini in the province of Medio Campidano . The nuraghes were mainly built in the period from about 1800 to 1200 BC, though many were used until the Roman period.
The false vaulted towers date to the recent Bronze Age and to the final Bronze Age (14th-12th century bc). [1] Inside a tower was found the only example of nuragic altar of the first Iron Age (late 10th-early 8th century bc), consisting of a stone carved on vertical motifs with the eagerness of the moon goddess. It was excavated several times ...
Su Nuraxi is a Nuragic archaeological site in Barumini, Sardinia, Italy. Su Nuraxi simply means "The Nuraghe" in Campidanese , the southern variant of the Sardinian language . Su Nuraxi is a settlement consisting of a seventeenth century BC nuraghe , a bastion of four corner towers plus a central one, and a village inhabited from the thirteenth ...
The Santa Vittoria site was frequented starting from the first phase of the Nuragic civilization corresponding to Middle Bronze Age (1600-1300 BC). Subsequently, from the late Bronze Age to the early Iron Age (1100-900 / 800 BC), the place became one of the most important expressions of the Nuragic civilization [ 1 ] and today it constitutes ...
Satellite images reveal an ancient mega network connecting over 100 Bronze Age sites. Discover the complex civilization beneath Central Europe.
During the Final Bronze Age the Nuragic civilization underwent fast social transformations: nuraghes were no longer built, and many were no longer used or became temples. [47] Giant graves were no longer constructed, although many of them would be reused during the subsequent centuries.