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Nuraghe Losa Central tower of the Nuraghe Santu Antine of Torralba Nuraghe "Su Nuraxi" 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 ...
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 to the sixth century BC, developed around the nuraghe.
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 ...
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 nuraghe Seruci is an important archaeological site, ... the typical burials of nuragic Sardinia. Bibliography. A. Taramelli, Gonnesa ...
The nuraghe Losa (in Sardinia, close to the village of Abbasanta) is a complex prehistoric building in the shape of a tholos tomb. [1] Its central structure has a triangular shape. [ 2 ] On the west side, a turreted wall is linked to it.
The nuraghe Genna Maria is an archaeological site in the comune of Villanovaforru, province of South Sardinia. It is located atop a hill in the Marmilla region, near the Campidano plain. The structure is complex, formed by an original central tower, built in the middle Bronze Age (2200-1600 BC), to which later were added other four towers and a ...
Nuraghe Fenu is a nuraghe located in the municipality of Pabillonis in Sardinia. It was constructed in the mid- Bronze Age (1300–1150 BC) and it covers an area of 2000 m 2 . Vittorio Angius, a 19th-century historian, described it as one of the biggest nuraghi of Sardinia , akin to nuraghe Saurecci and nuraghe S'Orku.