This is the catalogue of an itinerant exhibition that will visit several cities in Europe, exploring and revealing the secrets of one of the most fascinating civilizations of the Mediterranean Sea.
The Nuragic civilization takes its name from the Sardinian word for the monument considered most representative of this civilization: the nuraghe.
This consists of a tower construction built with large slabs of stone (rough-hewn or cut with varying degrees of regularity), which contained one or more chambers, one on top of the other, featuring the typical roof known as a false dome or tholos.
It appears both in the form of a single tower and as a complex, with a central tower surrounded by other towers.
Villages of stone huts were built around many of the nuraghi.
There are also other types of building: the protonuraghi (also known as pseudonuraghi or corridor nuraghi), the giants’ tombs, the well temples and sacred springs, and the megaron” temples.
The archaeological data confirm that the Nuragic civilization was based on an agricultural and sheep-farming economy, but it also made significant use of mineral resources (particularly copper and lead).
| Civilization | The nuraghethis consists of a tower construction built with large slabs of stone (roughhewn or cut with varying degrees of regularity) which contained one or more chambers one on top of the other featuring the typical roof known as a false dome or tholos |
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| Villages of stone huts were built around many of the nuraghi.there are also other types of building | The protonuraghi (also known as pseudonuraghi or corridor nuraghi) the giants tombs the well temples and sacred springs and the megaron templesthe archaeological data confirm that the |
Skira Sardinia: megalithic island | tina oldknow, william warmus
